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On 2/23/2021 at 5:31 AM, Mollie09 said:

It would be weirder if they'd actually gotten the address right. AR-11 are pretty useless in my experience, they send everything related to the green card to the address in the application. Like people don't move.🙄

After doing some research on this forum, yeh, it's pretty common that people still have their notices sent to old address.

I guess I'll file the I-751 with new/current address and hopefully everything will be updated by then.

I can confirm that it is the reminder to file I-751. 

It's weird that this was sent to my old home address even with AR-11 already submitted a while ago. 

10 minutes ago, Lucky Cat said:

I predict it will NOT be bad news......

Good to hear.

I'm pretty paranoid and I even called the 1-800 number to see if my wife's A number is in removal proceedings...

I have every thing ready for I 751, just waiting for the right date to send it off. This letter shocked me quite a bit.

9 minutes ago, trudi said:

If I remember correctly I got a letter reminding me that it was nearly time to file I 751

I thought USCIS doesn't do that and it's up to us to remember when to file the petition. 

Or they still do but it's pretty rare.

Hello all, my wife received her GC back in 2019 and we are only a couple of weeks away from filing the I 751.

But today, thanks to USPS Informed Delivery, I know that a letter from USCIS is coming later on today. I'm very worried. 

Do you guys know what that might be? And why is it coming at this point in the process (she's has no pending file or anything like that)?

34 minutes ago, Lucky Cat said:

Depends on the state.  My wife received a 5 year Texas DL.....

Forgot to say that my state is CA. Does anyone know if CA DMV gives 5-year DL for a conditional resident?

1 minute ago, NikLR said:

Nah, also got that in Colorado. 

Ok cool. So I guess the DMV doesn't really care about when GC expires.

I find it a bit odd that when I renewed my DL using my two-year GC (expires 2021), the DMV gave me a five-year DL (expires 2024).

Did DMV make a mistake or as long as I am a permanent resident (regardless of conditional or permanent with 10-year GC) I get a five-year DL?

My conditional green card expires June 2021. Hopefully it doesn't effect my case in anyway. Good luck and the best to those who are going to be affected by this.

So I was at the DMV today and found out that they DID register me to vote. I then called my county voter registration office and also the Secretary of State (CA) and both places confirmed to me that I am NOT registered.

Why is this the case? My theory is that CA DMV automatically registers people to vote initially but when they check immigration status as noncitizen, they don't send that information off to the state. Maybe...

11 minutes ago, Ray.Bonaquist said:

It appears from what you’re saying you don’t recollect ever voting or registering to vote and the publicly available database seems to imply the same.

 

End of matter, unless someone accuses you of otherwise in which case they (USCIS?) must be the ones to prove you did vote. Note that the unforgivable sin is actually voting, not just registering to vote. If someone registered to vote but didn’t actually vote, that is not fatal and can be rectified.

 

You're fine 

 

Personally I think such a draconian law without wiggle room for pardoning innocent offenders is unAmerican and should be struck down, but who am I.

I definitely know that I have NEVER voted. In terms of registering to vote, it's a different matter as it is really easy to make this mistake, especially during DMV visits. And that's why I have doubt and I am asking to make sure that I am good to go in terms of applying for N-400 in the future.

Just now, Luckycuds said:

It would appear so in the state of CA at least. But one would question why you are so concerned that you may have registered to vote at one time. One would surely remember...

Because I've heard horror stories on how LPRs have made innocent mistake of registering to vote when applying/renewing their driver's license. And so I have doubt myself as I live in CA and it is really easy to register to vote here (the past 10 minutes of searching threads on this forums are proof).

4 minutes ago, VeVe said:

If you are not a Citizen, you cannot vote.  If it's not showing anything,  that's good. Do not register until you are a citizen.

I know that only USC are allowed to vote, that's why I'm checking to see that I have not broken any laws?

Again my question is: does that (the fact that they have no information of me) mean that I have NEVER registered to vote?

Hi all, I just went to the California Secretary of State website to check to see if I'm registered to vote. And it shows that the system has no record of me whatsoever (see attached screenshot, I input name, social and driver's license number)

Does this mean that I have never registered to vote, like EVER? 

This is life and death question for my future as possibly a naturalized citizen.

Just to make one thing clear: this is just a suspicion of mine, the DS 160 visa applications might be spotless for all I know.

But because I'm a perfectionist (or at least I'm trying to be especially regarding my future here in the US), I want my immigration journey to be without as many obstacles as possible.

1 minute ago, Paul & Mary said:

Short answer is that you are liable for anything you signed regardless of who prepared it.  You swore an oath at the interview stating everything you submitted was correct.   You also had the opportunity to correct any errors at the interview.

I completely understand everything that you said here.

But I guess what I'm asking is: since my green card has been approved and I've had it for almost two years now and after USCIS doing their own investigation and looking at my immigration history (during GC application/process, biometrics etc...) the chances of possible misrepresentation on my visa applications are none right? Like I said, if there were issues/misrepresentations on those forms, USCIS wouldn't have approved my GC.

Hi all, I'm about to remove condition on green card.

Years back, I came to the US on F-1 Visa: applied three times, first and second denied, third approved. I used a travel agency at the time because I had no clue on how to apply for such visa. 

And now, there's a thought in my head that there could be a small chance that they might have misrepresented me on the Visa application: the one thing I'm worried about the most is my marital status on the visa app.

It was a 4-5 years ago and I don't exactly remember what the travel agency put on it.

I'm afraid that they might put "married" (I was single and my full intention was going to school in the US and I did for 5 years before marrying to my citizen spouse) to show that I still had tie in my home country to prove that once my study is done, I would return. That would increase the chance of having the visa approved.

Question: does USCIS review your very first immigration application (in my case the denied F1 visa) and other immigration documents before making a decision on granting one immigration benefit? 

I wouldn't have received my GC had they (USCIS) found any discrepancy/misrepresentation on my visa applications right?

To be sure, I've submitted a G-639 form asking for those two visa applications to make my mind at peace. But in the meantime, would love you hear your thought...

28 minutes ago, neoblast said:

 

No. You are fine. I am certain. 

Great. Thank you.

The parking ticket itself isn't the one that makes me worried. It's the fact that we didn't disclose it at all on I-485 form and during the interview because, again, it was so small/minor that it was in the back of our minds as we applied for GC...

Just now, neoblast said:

Nope. You are good to go. 

Are you certain? Is lying (we didn't even lie, we simply forgot) about a parking ticket enough to lose the green card?

Just now I remember that I totally forgot to disclose my parking ticket (parking without permit at my school, $25 and paid) on form I-485 (approved and I've been a lawful permanent resident for a few months). 

Because of it, I answered "NO" to question 25, 26, 27 on that form (asking about have you ever been cited etc...)

Am I in big trouble now because of it?

2 minutes ago, Jorgedig said:

Honestly, I wouldn't worry about it.  You didn't gain any type of immigration benefit from what appears to be an honest mistake.

Thanks for your input.

I am going through the N-400 application now and the question 30-I asks: have you EVER made a misrepresentation to obtain a public benefit in the US?

I don't think opening up a student bank account is considered a public benefit. A public benefit is like SSI, food stamps etc right?

Hi all, I'm a lawful permanent resident and getting ready to apply for naturalization. The problem is that when I go back and look at my document this is what I found:

When I was a F1 student few years back, during my international student orientation at my school, Wells Fargo was there to help students creating bank accounts. I opened up one using Visa and Passport as two forms of identification. 

But on my Wells Fargo application, under the "Permanently resides in the US" the answer was apparently YES (see picture). I don't remember if I did this or the banker did.

Is this a form of misrepresentation? Because I was a F1 student and I was not planning to "permanently reside in the US." Did I misrepresent myself as a lawful permanent resident back then?

P.S. This bank account was closed early 2019 due to inactivity if that means anything...

16 minutes ago, Mike E said:

You should fill out your timeline. 
 

You note the error (which is not your error btw) in your applications and at your interviews. This way you are on record of knowing about the error and informing the government.  

 

Transposition of names is a common occurrence.  I noticed in my wife’s passport (Myanmar people don’t really have surnames) that the machine readable section lists her country code, MMR followed by the name she uses as her legal first name.  The same is true of her niece’s passport.  
 

Whereas in both my USA and Canadian passports, the machine readable code has the country code,  USA or CAN, followed by my surname. 
 

Generally if has a set  of names on one document and another set of names on the other, as long as the names match it is fine. The order doesn’t have to match. 
 

If the number of names are different, then as long as every name in the document with fewer names is among the names in the document with more names, it is fine. The order doesn’t have to match.  

Yes, when I came to the US a while back, DHS (or whichever group that greets you at the airport) probably just copied down the naming convention (order) of my Vietnamese passport.
 

Basically just the order of it is wrong. On my green card application and green card itself, plus driver's license, my name is matched and in American (right way) order with First name, Middle and Last.

I don't have to worry about changing it on my I-94 then? I should be ok moving forward with ROC/naturalization considering this is not my mistake and it is very minor.

Sorry to bump this old thread but I have the same issue with the naming convention on my paperwork:

My Vietnamese password has this order, which is the right order for Vietnamese nationals: Last Name, Middle Name 1, Middle Name 2 and First Name.

Because of it, my I-94 has the following:

• Surname - My actual last name (correct here)
• Given name - Middle 1, Middle 2 and First Name. (order is wrong here)

Everything else (including my Green Card) is Americanized in correct naming convention for the US (First, Middle, Middle, Last).

Question to those here: did any of you guys apply for naturalization and if yes, any issue with it?

1 minute ago, gp123 said:

you don't need to provide any info about your f1 status for ROC.

only evidence since you got married and applying ROC. 

But what about the step after that which is naturalization. I've heard horror stories on how certain minor mistake (like wrong name etc...) can cause issue or have your citizenship stripped...