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It's complicated, but one of my citizenships is in Western Europe. Sorry I'd like to keep the specifics out for privacy reasons.

Have a safe flight! I transited through Turkey about a month ago. Used GC + extension letter on Turkish Airlines. No issues whatsoever. However, I understand the risk of being denied was there for sure. Though I travelled within Europe and and I have a pretty strong passport to my advantage.

@WaterLeaf good luck at SSA tomorrow. FYI success story: You may also want to print out SSA doc mentioned here and give to SSA employee if they refuse to remove restrictions from SS card:

Interesting, thank you for the data point. In California, I did not experience this as an LPR.

Agreed, Real ID is a useful form of ID, but don't understand how it proves immigration status? Surely, you need immigration paper work to get it, but once you get it there's no difference between Real ID of a USC vs LPR? The license itself doesn't show immigration status on it AFAIK?

I will support this, perhaps, unpopular opinion. Whenever I read I-751 instructions and interpret them literally, I come to that conclusion: - "Submit copies of documents indicating that the marriage upon which you were granted status was entered in good faith and was not for the purpose of circumventing immigration laws. Submit copies of as many documents as you can to establish this fact, to demonstrate the circumstances of the relationship from the date of the marriage to the present date;" This is supported by a few lawyers I asked this question (including the one I worked with), and by Jim Hacking (YouTube guy) too. It's always immigrant's burden to prove they're eligible for a benefit. I'm not advocating sending local bus schedules to USCIS. Only relevant information supporting bonafide marriage in whatever volume it takes: if it's 1000 pages, let it be 1000 pages. In a nicely organized packet, officer can easily find whatever they're interested in. In my personal experience, there's no way IO will read every letter in a bank statement. Unless there's something specific they're looking for, they'll get a few samples from here and there and make a decision. Solid packet will be a good indicator the applicant takes immigration laws and rules seriously. It will also highlight the effort that went into collecting ans organizing evidence.

Found an interesting article on DailyMail. Some quotes: - "America currently has one of the Western world's easiest citizenship tests" (note the use of toponym America VS USA 🥲) - "About 96 per cent of applicants are able to pass the current citizenship exam, according to recent estimates." - "More than 1 million people became US citizens in fiscal year 2022 - one of the highest numbers on record since 1907, the earliest year with available data - and USCIS reduced the huge backlog of naturalisation applications by over 60 per cent compared to the year before, according to a USCIS report also released in December." Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12318813/US-citizenship-test.html

Amazing success story @mepck! It's awesome when immigrants exercise their rights!

Agreed, USCIS will do their job regardless whether a lawyer is present or not. However, I'm a strong believer an IO will have less incentive asking irrelevant questions or be borderline when it comes to legal side of things. The presence of a lawyer, who can take notes to be used for suing USCIS, will likely make IO stick to official guidelines at all times. I can hardly imagine IO shouting or humiliating the immigrant (this forum seen examples of this) when a lawyer is present. Surely, this can still happen, but with lower probability. Just like red light traffic cameras discourage drivers from driving through red light, a good lawyer can discourage IO doing something utterly wrong. This is my opinion only.

I didn't have interview for ROC, but I'd think you'll be asked: - Places you and your spouse lived and worked since meeting until now - Important dates (birthdays, marriage, moving to places etc) - Questions about prior relationships (marriages, divorces) and kids (if any) - Questions about relatives - Your immigration history (if long and / or complicated) - Your criminal history (if any) - Whether your US citizen spouse sponsored anybody before - Personal questions about you and your spouse - Your travel history There's always a chance you and your spouse can be split and questioned separately (stokes interview). Be sure to prepare well and take a lawyer with you if you can afford it.

1 - Yes, you're removing conditions, so you're the petitioner 2 - No 3 - No

Just curious to see what beverage is more popular among all of us

Wanted to ask this question as I see more and more threads referring to the term "neutralization", when filing form N-400.