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  1.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: N 400 filer with child delayed due to Alien Registration Requirement
  2. top_secret
    Hasn't there always been a requirement to file an I-90 (for free) in most cases when a LPR child turns 14??? I would think normally that would satisfy even the new registration requirement (????) Is it possible they are requiring the G-325R in this particular case because the I-90 was not filed in a timely manner???? I'm just trying to understand it better myself.
  3.    top_secret reacted to a post in a topic: DFA/CFO confusion for changing last name on passport
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  5.    top_secret reacted to a post in a topic: St. Luke tuberculosis lab smear results are late
  6.    RO_AH reacted to a post in a topic: DFA/CFO confusion for changing last name on passport
  7.    RO_AH reacted to a post in a topic: St. Luke tuberculosis lab smear results are late
  8.    Broke Government reacted to a post in a topic: St. Luke tuberculosis lab smear results are late
  9. top_secret
    On the bright side, if the sputum test results had been positive they would have contacted her early. "Late" results implies it's negative and that everything must be just fine. Do proactively follow up but most likely its just bureaucracy that will easily be resolved within a day or two.
  10. top_secret
    DFA has no CFO requirement to change a name on a passport. Whoever told you that is incorrect.
  11.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: Is it realistic to hope to get a passport within a week of oath?
  12.    Dashinka reacted to a post in a topic: Is it realistic to hope to get a passport within a week of oath?
  13.    From_CAN_2_US reacted to a post in a topic: Is it realistic to hope to get a passport within a week of oath?
  14. top_secret
    My wife and stepdaughter both had US passports on hand in well under 48 hours from her oath ceremony. She also had her Naturalization Certificate returned by hand at the same time, which is way better than waiting a month for it to be returned by untracked mail. You can make an expedited passport agency appointment online here. https://passportappointment.travel.state.gov/. If you want to just browse appointment availability you can start an appointment with any date and you would be able to view available appointments on a calendar before having to commit to anything. In the case of my wife she preemptively made an appointment for the day after her interview so she would be ready if she got a same day oath and she could change it if her oath was delayed.
  15.    OldProf reacted to a post in a topic: N-600 for 12 y/o stepdaughter
  16.    Dashinka reacted to a post in a topic: Does martial union include time living together before becoming a resident?
  17. top_secret
    We have a fairly simple power of attorney which delegates most of the responsibilities of guardianship for my stepdaughter to me, and explicitly defines exactly the wishes and directions of her mother is for any reason she was not able to care for her child. The idea is that we do not expect to need it at all and it certainly does not offer any permanent legal guardianship but if anything unexpected were to happen it would at least give me some legal authority to independently care for and take whatever steps I needed to act in the child’s best interest until such time as a more permanent custody arrangement could be settled by the relevant courts and it clearly expresses my wife’s wishes for her daughter in such circumstances.
  18.    OldUser reacted to a post in a topic: Does martial union include time living together before becoming a resident?
  19. top_secret
    It covers marital union in the USCIS policy manual and the definition seems fairly straightforward. https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-g-chapter-2 So to me it seems that if you actually resided together overseas that 100% counts as "marital union".
  20. top_secret
    Turbotax and probably just about any other tax preparation software has an amend return option whereby you just go through the whole guided process for your return again making whatever changes that need to be made and at the end it spits out a PDF prepared 1040X ready to print and mail. Generally super easy if you used tax preparation software and potentially quite a significantly greater additional return.
  21. top_secret
    Could just mean whatever fingerprints they had on record were fine but they didn't accept her picture for some reason and needed to retake it.
  22. top_secret
    Knowing my neighbors, I do not think any type of unannounced visit by any type of government agent would go particularly well. The best possible outcome I could imagine is they would just shout at them to get the eff off their property and don't come back come back without a warrant. Possibly that would be interspersed with various threats of violence. Then they would probably try to tip me off that some kind of feds were asking questions about me. They are nice neighbors but definitely no one you would ever want acting as your character reference.
  23. top_secret
    DigItize (scan) certain paper documents contained in your A-File. Scanning completed. (totally just a guess)
  24. top_secret
    Look at that message as advisory. It means she better come to the interview very well prepared to discuss and document your current income.
  25. top_secret
    I went back and found a recent case I saw of someone reporting they had been denied due to not meeting the marital union requirement. They stated that the interviewing officer told them it was a "new law" but when they subsequently posted an excerpt from their denial letter it is crystal clear that was new enforcement of an old law. There have also been several other reports of the same denial on Facebook groups and Reddit recently. More in the last month than I ever saw before. With the caveat that it was posted on a Facebook group, it seems very credible and the excerpt from the denial letter seems legit.
  26. top_secret
    Anecdotally. Previously 'most' applicants who filed 90 days early without strictly meeting the 3 years marital union requirement seemed to somehow get away with it, and a very small handful seemed to get denied for it. But, in just the last month I have seen multiple reports of denials based on just that reason and at least one person who stated that they were directly told at their interview that there was an internal policy change to maximum enforcement, no exceptions and 100% denials if the 3 year marital union requirement was not strictly met. (so says Reddit and Facebook groups). Based on that, and general news lately, today I certainly would not try filing early if the 3 year marital union requirement was not met. It seems times may have changed.
  27.    top_secret reacted to a post in a topic: CFO appointment error
  28. top_secret
    It should be ok with an AOM plus a US divorce decree. They already know that marriage legally ended in the US. The reason the embassy still wants a CENOMAR/AOM is to make sure there are no other marriages they don't know about. Make sure the divorce decree is a certified copy from the court.
  29. top_secret
    Shockingly, I have actually had missing mail requests work before. Even after a significant delay. Though not with green cards. Another strange anomaly is that one time when we did receive green cards in the mail they showed up unannounced by the usually reliable informed delivery. Tracking number was belatedly provided by USCIS two days after we actually received them and they never showed in informed delivery. It made me wonder if they are somehow handled differently by USPS(???)
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