Vickys_Mom

I'd bring printed copies of anything you submitted electronically. You won't be happy if you get to your interview, they can't find something you submitted, and you didn't bring the printed copy. Regards, Vicky's Mom

The IRS doesn't require the individual income tax returns for 2023 to be filed until (at the earliest) April 15th, 2024...several weeks after your N-400 appointment. Feel free to bring anything you want to provide for the 2023 tax year. If you have already done your taxes, bring copies of your return and supporting documents (W-2, 1099, etc.). If they ask about your 2023 return and you haven't done it yet, you can assure them that you plan to file on schedule. You can certainly look and see if the 2023 transcript is available, but do not count on it. (No one knows the IRS' schedule for such things.) You don't "order" a tax transcript. Once you've logged into the IRS web site, if a given year's transcript is available, you can click on it and download it immediately. For a data point, I filed our federal return earlier this week. The only 2023 transcript currently available to me on the IRS website is the Wage & Income Transcript. If I create it, it says "No return of record filed." It's too soon. Take 2018-2022 with you. You got this. Regards, Vicky's Mom

Appears to be Mumbai based on past postings. Regards, Vicky's Mom

As you already noted, on the paper form it says > If you answer "Yes" to any of these questions, include a typed or printed explanation on additional sheets of paper. That's not optional. So, yes. Based on what you've said, you should write an explanation and upload it as additional evidence. Regards, Vicky's Mom

My mother-in-law did her interview in Jakarta late last year. They did not *keep* her passport at the time of the interview. They wanted to do administrative processing first. When they were ready to issue her visa, they had us send them the passport through the courier service. The courier service included a "bill of lading" that specified what documents were being provided. The first thing was her passport. She had a copy of the courier document that showed where her passport was until she got it back with the visa in it. @Saihtiam why could you not use your Kartu Tanda Penduduk (KTP) for identification purposes while the embassy has your passport? Regards, Vicky's Mom

"You may assume that we have received as such you will not receive the same email once your petition arrives." There's a flaw in the English, editing perhaps, but otherwise...you won't get another email, this is the one you will get, you should take this as "...after you have received instructions via letter or email from the Immigrant Visa unit to do so." and continue to make the appointment. If I was the IV officer, I wouldn't have sent you that until your petition was in the office in Jo-Berg. But it is what it is. The beneficiary should absolutely print out the email from the IV and bring it with them. If your petition gets hung up somewhere along the way, the beneficiary shows up for an appointment and the interviewing officer says "you shouldn't have come before your petition arrives", the beneficiary shows them the email and say "you guys told us to do so". Hopefully it all goes smoothly, but expect delays, errors, and "oopsies" in this entire process. Regards, Vicky's Mom