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got a green card, you say? hit fafsa.gov , file, and see what's what.

Haha I miss y Darnell ,, ya hit fafsa.gov I went to college with gc, I didn't get any grants but I got some state scholarship and school scholarship .

Poe is always the checking your bag. I just came back from Philippines . My Poe was Seattle, I recheckin all my boxes and bag.

Hi

Currently I'm serving in the Active duty Army component, My spouse is in Iraq, I have applied for her CR1 Visa, and Sent the IV package to NVC yesterday, I'm currently waiting for their reply, The problem is , in the Military they refused to enroll my spouse into DEERS, even though I have her birth certificate , and Marriage Certificate. they are requesting her personal presence , and that she will not get DEERS in Iraq.

Last week I recieved my PCS and the Dependent part was checked with "NO" ,

My question is , is there anyone in here had the same problem ? do anyone knows what shall I do to enroll her in to DEERS, ?I'm whole confused and desperate,

and my PLT Sgt is telling me that Iraq is off limit for US soldiers, so you cannot visit her !!!!

Dude did it seems you never listen to those meeting in your unit lol. If your military personnel country is matter. Girls/ male in iraq and afghan are off limits for military personnel. They need to get security clearance for that. If I am we're you I'm gonna talk to first sgt. If he didn't answer your question talk to commander. Screw the chain of command. They won't give you a answer. They won't apply them to Deers till your wife gets here in USA , get ssn, get green card, and security clearance.

Today I went to the ID Card office, and explained the the situtation again, I talked to the Supervisor over there , I showed them our Marriage Certificate and copy of my Wife's Passport , they finally accepted to enroll her into DEERS, she needs to go to the Embassy in Iraq to get the ID card

My PLT Sgt helped me alot to solve this issue, So thank you Sgt Lopez

Good to here that.

Today I went to the ID Card office, and explained the the situtation again, I talked to the Supervisor over there , I showed them our Marriage Certificate and copy of my Wife's Passport , they finally accepted to enroll her into DEERS, she needs to go to the Embassy in Iraq to get the ID card

My PLT Sgt helped me alot to solve this issue, So thank you Sgt Lopez

Good to here that.

Once you join military with gc recruiter or people in the reception will help you to do your citizenship. . I'm not divorce but that's what happen to me. I was gc when I joined before I graduate in army I got my citizenship.

First talk to the recruiter because as of now due to cutoff of military budget they won't let in everybody even you pass the asvab. Even you have associate degree they won't accept you right away. I know only infantry is the one always . Most of the recruiter targeting those fresh graduate in high school. Try navy or marine or Air Force. You have 50% to get in in the army. I'm just saying.

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yes, i know, i have some experience about it.

But hey, time passes, things change - that's why I'm anxious to hear of news, aye?

[Nice to see you posting again, btw]

just been busy , pre-deployment is sucks lol. i wont complain on the food in AF base but their PT is a joke hahahaha. i miss on them theyre yelling saying "dont walk on the grass, thats AIR Force grass" wahahaha... unless EOD USAF ... that i will respect and not going to messed around lol...

waiting to hear news of breakfast and PT.

Breakfast and PT?

Breakfast in US airforce base are pretty good.

PT for air force? is a F***** joke.....

sorry but its true

If the husband is active duty you should be able to get in in Tricare benefits. but if your husband is reserve or guard is different. we only have 180 days before and after active duty servce full medical benefits. after that your husband have a choice to reactivate his Tricare and pay it from ur own money.

We consider the option of retiring in the Philippines. Plus, my wife owns a great deal of land there at Tanay Rizal.

omg shes from tanay , rizal?? im from tanay /baras also. my last name is santa maria lagto sabas...

Hubby is on recruiting duty at the moment and up here, the MEPS does not take conditional 2 year GC's. They expect the GC to have 2 or more years left until expiration.

**Baffling because military service is a path to citizenship!

i joined with conditional GC. so i know you can enlist with 2 conditional but if ur conditional will going to expire before your bct they will tell you to renew it , but when i renewed mine they didnt process bcoz they told me military already accept my naturalization . and when CO interviewed me for my citizenship they told me i dont need to renew it and waste money for 10 years GC......

Yes you can enlist to any branch of military as long you are PR or has a proof that ur legal to

Live and work in USA . When I joined , I'm only living 1 year in USA with CR 1 visa / and LPR ..

the security clearance is not only for top secret MOS but you need to get that also if your non-citizen soldier. btw i know this bcoz the FBI agent that interview me told me.

its probably the air guard has different rules or the state but my recruiter didnt know about the FBI also till the FBI agent called me for interviewed. this is just based on experienced and all of us in my batch had the same process too.

i also called my cousin ,his a airman , he said we had the same process too , he had his citizenship before the bct graduation.

I only did finger printing when i did the oath taking to service, while in reception for bct, and biometrics for citizenship ( i am in the training that time ).. do not waste money for finger printing ..........

can u PM me pls bcoz i shipout last oct 2011. and get citizenship last January 2012. Yes some recruiter didnt know anything about the citizenship through military specially if shes new in recruiting.. if shes in bct right now you dont need to be worry on anything. dont do anything just wait to her call when u need to go there to attend the oath taking. but if she havent ship out yet she needs to talk to the recruiter that process her paper bcoz they should do security clearance before they ship her out unless army is different to air. they should give her a copy on that too its on the paper works that she signed when she joined the service ( that's how we found out too) but im telling you dont listen to USCIS , military citizenship has own rules and process. i get in trouble listening to USCIS ..

Thank you for your feedback. When you mentioned "packet", that got me thinking, and I found a lot of other valuable information based on that alone. I have had a hard time getting good information. Judging by your signature where you use the acronym "USAR", I take it you are in the Army Reserve. If that is the case, it is good to see someone who was in the Reserves or Guard was also able to take advantage of naturalization in that way too. I havent found absolute proof anywhere my wife would be able to do that, being in the Air National Guard, although I have a lot of second hand information that she can.

I also found out yesterday, thanks to some things you said and then doing further research, that iif she gets her biometrics (fingerprints) done no later than 30 days prior to going to Basic Training, she has a better chance of taking her oath while at Basic at Lackland Air Force Base. On one of the USCIS web sites it says for military personnel they can go to a local office and get their fingerprints done with no appointment and no pending application. so their packet is ready before going to Basic Training. When I called USCIS to confirm that (just to feel better about it) the person I spoke with tried to argue that with me, and tell me to just wait until she goes to basic training because she would need to have an appointment to get fingerprinted before going. But the USCIS website says differently, so... That has been our problem. One official Air Force site says she can do it, and then someone in Personnel with the Air Force says she cant do it. USCIS says in one place she can do "this or that" and then a representative says she cant do "this or that". Anyways, it has been a whole lot of conflicting information. But if she can do it then we will save over $600, which will be well worth the effort to us.

At this point I think we both have decided it is well worth the risk, and we are going to gamble that she can get it done at basic training, and we will gamble as well that we can get her finger prints (probably at an $85 cost from what I can gather). We will just take the gamble that what I read is correct and that it will speed things up to get the finger prints now which I read are good for 15 months. And I will get the whole "packet" put together to ship with her to Basic Training.

Thanks again for your response. It helps me a lot in connecting the dots.

No, ur totally confused.,,..

1. ur wife joined military , before oath taking for service , her recruiter should told her to fill up n400.

2. recruiter will going to ask her BC, GC, ur BC passport and driver license or state ID.

3. after oath taking in military , FBI agent going to contact her for security clearance , this agent also going to tell ask you about everything she put in n400....

4. this FBI agent will be around ( asking the same question every stupid time to make sure your not lying ) for 2 weeks or so or till 3 days before she leave to for training.

5. probably you have the yellow packet already , on her shipping day at the reception in bct, while in process , they going to ask to go in a office to fill up n400 again ( but if you fill up n400 just give that to the lady coz if u messed up filling up that and put different one from the FBI agent copy you might get a problem._)

6. before she leave the reception they will tell her that her drill sgt will let her know about the next step.

7. while in bct, in her first week they going to have a meeting for citizenship soldiers. ( its just recognizing thingy for military saying thanks you for service and everything)

8. after 3 weeks they will call her for biometrics and interview and they will ask for her GC to surrender it.

9. a week before graduation , they will tell them to call families to come to oath taking, at the same time they going to have some meeting for again whos going to be awarded of citizenship.

10. practice practice practice for oath taking, and they will let know everyone whos going to have citizenship and who is not..

11. if you didnt get your citizenship in BCT, you will have it in AIT..

Dont do anything else, wait till she get ship out , you dont need to pay anything, FYI, if her GC will be expire before shipping she needs to renew that...

if still confuse do not call USCIS call military hotline because according to Military citizenship CO , USCIS is not the one going to approve the citizenship , military CCO will the one ....

one more thing, if she only have extension letter ,, make sure that she going to bring the original letter and GC... and tell her she needs to indeed to those stupid people in reception that extension letter is legit ....

Thank you for your feedback. When you mentioned "packet", that got me thinking, and I found a lot of other valuable information based on that alone. I have had a hard time getting good information. Judging by your signature where you use the acronym "USAR", I take it you are in the Army Reserve. If that is the case, it is good to see someone who was in the Reserves or Guard was also able to take advantage of naturalization in that way too. I havent found absolute proof anywhere my wife would be able to do that, being in the Air National Guard, although I have a lot of second hand information that she can.

I also found out yesterday, thanks to some things you said and then doing further research, that iif she gets her biometrics (fingerprints) done no later than 30 days prior to going to Basic Training, she has a better chance of taking her oath while at Basic at Lackland Air Force Base. On one of the USCIS web sites it says for military personnel they can go to a local office and get their fingerprints done with no appointment and no pending application. so their packet is ready before going to Basic Training. When I called USCIS to confirm that (just to feel better about it) the person I spoke with tried to argue that with me, and tell me to just wait until she goes to basic training because she would need to have an appointment to get fingerprinted before going. But the USCIS website says differently, so... That has been our problem. One official Air Force site says she can do it, and then someone in Personnel with the Air Force says she cant do it. USCIS says in one place she can do "this or that" and then a representative says she cant do "this or that". Anyways, it has been a whole lot of conflicting information. But if she can do it then we will save over $600, which will be well worth the effort to us.

At this point I think we both have decided it is well worth the risk, and we are going to gamble that she can get it done at basic training, and we will gamble as well that we can get her finger prints (probably at an $85 cost from what I can gather). We will just take the gamble that what I read is correct and that it will speed things up to get the finger prints now which I read are good for 15 months. And I will get the whole "packet" put together to ship with her to Basic Training.

Thanks again for your response. It helps me a lot in connecting the dots.

how in the heck u become dual citizen if ur not US citizen yet.? filing jointly will get more refund even ur not working. and filing jointly can use as bonifide marraige evidence

background checks takes few days sometimes a week. but it also depends on the company ....... my first job in US took 2 weeks to get done on background checks , the reason was i am new here in US

this is the process of that, well since she already joined the service , her recruiter should tell her to fill up n-400 and give back to him/her before her oath taking for military. they only want is the copy of her GC . then on the shipment for bct , Recruiter going to give her a package for BCT and for her citizenship , at the reception, they will process it and they will ask everything that she put on in n-400. She should have her GC with her ( i didnt bring mine, bcoz USCIS said dont bring it but Military CO said i should ) if the GC will going to be expire before the shipment she should renew it bcoz they will disqualify to ship in training due to expired GC. after reception, while on training, the drill SGt will let her know about her citizenship , they will call her like 3-4 times while on training for biometrics, CO get together with other soldiers that apply for citizenship, interview, practice for oath taking and oath taking. most likely only 70% of the whole battalion will be awarded. she will get her citizenship before bct graduation or while in AIT.

for what they told me before. military service member do not need to pay anything but they never mention about the dependents.

Yes I'm working part time within 3 months after I got here.. . Then I went back to college to finish my bachelor degree . I didn't try to evaluated my transcript from Philippines bcoz the college that i went to did the evaluation for free.

I'm working while goin to school that time so I can build up experienced here in USA . I worked at deli in the grocery , cashier, and a welder I have associate in civil engineering and associate in nursing in the Philippines but I didn't get picky on the job here in USA bcoz all I care was to get a experienced ... .

I have Bachelor's and Master's degree in Psychology in the Philippines. I tried applying almost all sites I know but I always get the message saying " thank you for your interest." which means No You are not qualified! I have no problem starting at an entry level position at all, I have no luck at all. I tried in Target, Walmart, and others which I can't even remember now. It makes me feel really sad and frustrated.

How long u been in USA?

How long u been in USA? Oh btw I don't have Filipinos friends either in my area. But Idc .

nu uh !! There are others, in the timeline police brigade

I know , I saw them .! Hahaha

DCF doesn't apply to all countries. To where we are, it doesn't

MythaG, why did yours get expedited?

I was thinking we will file our petition. Then when he gets his orders, we will call the military helpline and request to have the petition expedited. NVC will be a different "monster" to tackle

coz i am in the us army. i get my citizenship within 1.5 years only (staying in usa). after i graduated in college i joined the army and they ask me to dl the n400 and filled it up .. so from conditional green card, i jump to citizenship. i didnt do all the papers works. all i did was filled up the form, biometrics and interviewed (same day) and oath taking before bct graduation.