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Posts posted by Brother Hesekiel
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Compare this to the proposal of several senators to eliminate the K-1 entirely.
As they said, there is simply too much fraud associated with this visa category. Americans who intend to marry foreign nationals are free to do so, but making the effort to get married abroad testifies to the legitimacy and seriousness of the relationship. Couples can always have a second ceremony or reception in the United States once the foreign spouse receives his or her immigrant visa.
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You can move money as you please. All it takes is one wire. I personally have a life/investment insurance that's due on May 1, after 30 years of paying in, money I'd like to transfer, at least part of it. However, the Euro being at 1.29x now, I would like to see some movement upward first, and I'm not sure that's going to happen in the near future.
I recently received 180,000 Euro from a client in Europe, and just a delay of 5 days has cost me several thousand dollars. If you have $10K, it's probably not a big issue, but if you have $100K or even $500K, timing is everything.
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If they want me to vote Republican in 2016, they better make sure Chris Christie is the nominee.
If they nominate a totally unacceptable dimwit or 1%er once again, they'll lose again.
It's so simple that a caveman can grasp it.
It's perfectly fine for Republicans to disagree with Democrats on certain issues; what's not fine is to tell the majority of voters that they don't give a sh*t about what they want. Prominent example, I want affordable health care, so for Romney to run against his greatest achievement, Romenycare, the blueprint for the Affordable Care Act, was so extremely stupid, it made him totally unelectable in my book.
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My daughter and I received our green cards almost 3 years ago (my husband is a US Citizen). Our other two children gained their citizenship through him. Because my daughter is his stepchild, can her naturalization application be submitted with mine? Or do I have to file mine then file hers after I receive my naturalization. Or should we consider my husband adopting her?
Has anyone gone through this? Any advice would be great!
No, you can't apply for somebody else.
The minimum age for naturalization is 18 years, so your daughter has to file herself once she's 18 and desires to become a US citizen.
If your daughter is under the age of 18 by the time you naturalize, she will come a US citizen automatically, by act of law, the Child Citizenship Act of 2000, whether she likes it, you like it, your husband likes it, or the Pope likes it. Nothing to do, nothing to file, nothing to decline, it's automatic.
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I believe in evolution. It just takes time for a country that has strong ties to the stone age to become an industrialized nation. While it would be wonderful if the US or any country or pack of countries could correct wrongdoings in the world, especially human injustice, it's just not possible. Thus, we should allow those countries to get there eventually in a timely manner (200 years, perhaps) and stay out of it.
For me, defense means just that. We are a nation of incredible military power, including more nukes that's needed to blow this planet up so that's pretty much nothing left, and we sold those same nukes to other countries, including Israel. So it's just hypocriticial if we tell other countries they can't have what we have because we are the good guys and our wars are just and they are the bad guys and their wars are injust. We should defend our country against attacks and can help our allies if they are being attacked. Other than that, we should defend our borders, and nothing else, and unless we are being attacked on our soil, we have no business of even firing a single shot.
Imagine we would have always invested the trillions of dollars we used to blow up other countries and other people right here in America. We'd be number one in the world again, in pretty much everything: high speed rails with 260mph trains, the best educational system as it's free for everyone, the best health care, free for every citizen, the best teachers, as we would pay them well, the best infrastructure, as we would try to be a world leader in that as well. The only losers would be the guys who make money off of wars, and I don't give a rat's behind about those.
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Let your wife travel with you but stay there for "only" 8 months or so, then return to the United States, apply for naturalization, and join you again once she has become a US citizen. Once she's outside the US for 1 year, all of her previous residency would be lost and she had to start over again with 364 days on the clock once she returns.
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Hello!
I am working on an application for a German national who wants to keep her German citizenship when naturalizing in Vietnam. I do these applications quite often but I have never done one for Vietnam, and frankly, the information this young lady gave me confuses me.
She is married to a Vietnamese man since 2008; the German government refused him a spousal visa and so she moved to Vietnam to live with her husband there. She can't get a work visa because she has no "expert" status (?), meaning she has no university degree and has not 5 years of work experience. Since she can't work, she can't pay taxes, and thus she can't get a residency card nor resident status for Vietnam. As she tells me, she always gets 6-months visas, leaves Vietnam for a short while, then returns. Due to the corrupt nature of the whole thing she basically lives in Vietnam since 2008, happily married to her Vietnamese husband who owns several properties and is well off financially.
Now here it gets to the point where she lost me. According to her, she can still become a Vietnamese citizen after having lived in Vietnam for 5 years, despite the fact that she has no resident status there. Does anybody know if that is really true?
Thanks,
Brother Hesekiel
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1. Not an immigration qn. That's up to you
2. Not an immigration question, that's up to you.
3. 50/50
4. You mean, should you have your estranged wife sign the I-751 stating you're still in a bonafide relationship? And should you have your estranged wife attend the interview with you, should you be called for one... even though there is a perfectly legal option of "divorced" that you could file under?
5. Depends. 6-9 months roughly.
Honestly if your marriage WAS legit then you'll have no problems. If you want to divorce, divorce and file for a waiver when you window opens. If you want to file married.. then file married. I personally wouldn't do this given your relationship as described but it's your life.
Your relationship should not depend on immigration matters. Reads like you married her solely for an easier path to GC.
I second that. All of it.
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That is perfectly normal. The I.O. cannot make a decision; he can only make a recommendation. Every N-400 case has to be reviewed and signed off by a supervising officer. Becoming a US citizen is a tiny bit more involved then buying a box of condoms.
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Wait 'til you are back from your trip. Does it really make a difference if you become a US citizen a few days earlier, after decades here on Earth? There's no election on the horizon, and you can otherwise do what every US citizen can do anyway. Trust me, life is not different once you have become a US citizen.
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And the Lord said:
"I can show them the light and the path to enlightenment, but not if they run in the opposite direction . . . "
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VJ,
Good evening everyone - I appreciate any advice you can give for a situation with a visitor's visa that my friend's applied for.
My wife's Ukrainian friends were denied entry to the United States. They had their interview today and it was pretty short lived - they never looked at any documents, just simply saw the invitation that we wrote . . .
That alone may have killed their chances right then and there: having a support system in the United States where they can crash until they can escape into the darkness . . .
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We aren't applying until July, but I have the same question, for applying based on 3 years. I understand you have to include tax returns and leases and all that again, but how much? We just submitted a bunch of that stuff for ROC in August, do you send in everything for the last 3 years again, or just the most recent things you've gotten since you did ROC? Or do you really ONLY have to send in the last 3 years of tax transcripts?
You really need to read the guides. All you need to submit in regard to your marriage is joint income tax returns for the past years since you became a resident. Leases, letters from your pastor, photos from your parties and credit card statements have no place here anymore. So read the guides, and pay attention to the all important word OR.
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First, the lecture: a lawful permanent resident of the United States is required by law to reside permanently in the United States. If you think about this, you'll agree that your dad hasn't been doing this at all since he was granted LPR status. So it's understandable that CBP tells him to change that right now and reside in the U.S. or lose his Green Card.
If your dad has no intention to permanently reside in the United States, he may as well surrender his GC via form I-407 and at the same time apply for a B2. This is strategically important as he basically says to the consulate "listen, guys, I've been granted the privilege to reside in the United States permanently, but due to other obligations I feel that I cannot reside there permanently, nor do I want to. So I'd like to "exchange" my Green Card for a visitor's visa, so that I can visit my daughter once a year."
Under most circumstances, that should guarantee him a B2 under circumstances that have no guarantee. (Let this soak in!)
Surrendering his GC has no adverse effect in regard to a later I-130 petition, but his age medical condition may very well prevent him from becoming a resident again. The consulate is required to make sure that no intending immigrant becomes a financial burden on the American people, and an older person with health issues will unlikely be able to work at the very least 10 years full time which is the minimum requirement to receive Medicare and retirement benefits. Hence, the sponsor would have to show that he or she is able to compensate for this, and that's a biggie.
Here' s the law:
Age and Health of Prospective Immigrant
Both USCIS and Department of State are required to consider the immigrant's age, health, and ability to support themselves when making the public charge determination. This requirement is based on INA section 212(a)(4)(B):
Factors to be taken into account.- (i) In determining whether an alien is excludable under this paragraph, the consular officer or the Attorney General shall at a minimum consider the alien's-
(I) age;
(II) health;
(III) family status;
(IV) assets, resources, and financial status; and
(V) education and skills
Only after considering these things, will DHS or DoS consider the affidavit of support:
(ii) In addition to the factors under clause (i), the consular officer or the Attorney General may also consider any affidavit of support under section 213A for purposes of exclusion under this paragraph.
Both the Adjudicators Field Manual (DHS) and Foreign Affairs Manual (DoS) refer to the "totality of circumstances", and specifically refer to INA 212(a)(4)(B). Some specific references in the Foreign Affairs Manual:
9 FAM 40.41 N4.3 Family Status
You should consider the marital status of the applicant and, if married, the number of dependents for whom he or she would have financial responsibility.
9 FAM 40.41 N4.4 Applicant's Age
You should consider the age of the applicant. If the applicant is under the age of 16, he or she will need the support of a sponsor. If the applicant is 16 years of age or older, you should consider what skills the applicant has to make him or her employable in the United States.
9 FAM 40.41 N4.5 Education and Work Experience
You should review the applicant's education and work experience to determine if these are compatible with the duties of the applicant's job offer (if any). You should consider the applicant's skills, length of employment, and frequency of job changes. Even if a job offer is not required, you should assess the likelihood of the alien's ability to become or remain self-sufficient, if necessary, within a reasonable time after entry into the United States. (See 9 FAM 40.41 N4.7.)
9 FAM 40.41 N4.6-1 Aliens Subject to INA 212(a)(4)©/(D)
An alien who must have Form I-864, Affidavit of Support Under Section 213(A) of the Act, will generally not need to have extensive personal resources available unless considerations of health, age, skills, etc., suggest that the likelihood of his or her ever becoming self-supporting is marginal at best. In such cases, of course, the degree of support that the applicant will be able and likely to provide becomes more important than in the average case.
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I'm not a religious person. In fact, I consider the idea of a personified deity, more precisely, anybody who believes that there's an old guy up in the heavens with a white beard and a ####### who popped out his son out of a woman's ####### who was still a virgin afterward, pretty retarded.
That said, if a person's religious belief is that human life begins at conception, and that the idea of marriage is to create a holy union that will result in the procreation of those who were created in their creator's image, then it is simply impossible, outright impossible to accept abortion or marriage of men who hump each other and put their stick in where the brown stuff comes out. I know this sounds brutal, but that's the way it is. Any Pope who softens up in regard to abortion and gay marriage will initiate the end of a religion that still has 1.1 billion followers worldwide.
To politicize this issue, the GOP, who has a large portion of Christians as their followers, simply cannot move in the same direction without alienating those folks. A true Christian, somebody who believes in the stuff written down in the Old Testament, will put preserving the life of unborn children and the sanctity of marriage over other issues that may effect them personally. Yes, wars suck, the economy sucks, sleeping on a park bench sucks, illegal immigration sucks, but if they can save thousands of lives . . . doesn't that serve a greater purpose?
Food for thought.
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Unlucky guy,
the very moment you have accumulated as little as 1 day of unlawful presence, commonly referred to as "overstay," you are not eligible for the Visa Waiver Program (VWP) anymore and need to apply for a visa, even if you are from a country that participates in the VWP.
The 3 year bar means in plain English "don't you dare showing your face here before the bar has been served." After the bar has been served, you are free to apply for a visa and you will be denied, based on your history of overstay, your history of having been in trouble with the law, and the aftershave you're using. The U.S. consulate has full discretion in whom to issue a visa, and the only person they are answering to is John Kerry or his boss, Barack H. Obama.
Thus, you can assume with about 99% certainty that no US consulate will issue you a non-immigrant visa again, unless you give them a darn good reason to. A successful H1-B petition is such a reason (after the bar has been served), and of course an I-129F (being the fiance of a U.S. citizen or LPR) as well as an I-130 petition (being the spouse of a U.S. citizen or LPR) is a really good reason to do so. Short of that, you'll be shown the door and denied, that's just how the good people in the consulates roll.
Regarding your ex-girlfriend . . . have you lost it?
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Your spouse's professional career is totally irrelevant for your naturalization.
You'd have a problem if you were in prison though. As long as you can escape being arrested, you can truthfully state that you have not been arrested, cited, etc., so it's all good.
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In addition to what Harpa stated, you need to understand that not your prolonged absence from the U.S. killed your residency, but the fact that you reestablished residency in Canada.
If a Canadian who is a lawful permanent resident of the United States moves back to Canada and reestablished residency there, he automatically abandons his U.S. residency. It doesn't take a year for this to happen, only about a day. You could leave the United States and teach English in Mongolia, work in South Vietnam or on a space station, or even study Chinese in Moscow, but you cannot establish residency in any such country. In case of a student you would have to be an international student. Clearly, a Canadian who goes to school in Canada can't do this as an international student from the United States, and the same applies to being employed in one's home country.
Since Canada and the United States share resident information openly and freely, you effectively had killed your Green Card the morning you went to work in your new job.
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I don't have a college degree or any professional experience. ):
A composer has studied music in college and has at the very least a Bachelor's degree in Music Composition. Ideally, you'd have a Master's or even a doctorate.
If you do not have a college degree and do not have professional experience, you can't really call yourself a composer and thus there's no path for you leading to a visa allowing you to work in the United States.
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First, there is no such thing as a dual citizen. The only person who would have been a dual citizen is Clark Kent and Superman, two identities in one body. However, since he/they were illegal aliens from the planet Krypton, guilty of document fraud and false claim of US citizenship, aside from the fact that he/they never existed, it's probably not such a good example.
The term dual citizenship is commonly used to describe a person who is a citizen of two countries, falsely so, but used this way anyway.
The United States does not recognize multiple citizenship. That means for the United States government a United States citizen is a United States citizen and nothing but a United States citizen. A United States citizen can be a citizen of several other countries as well, and the United States government gives a rodent's behind about this, as long as this does not interfere with US interest. So if you are a US citizen and become the Ayatollah of Iran and declare war on the imperialist American pigs, the US government pays attention about your Iranian citizenship, otherwise not. A United States citizen is also required by law to exit and to enter the United States with a valid U.S. passport.
In contrast, Canada is arguably the most liberal country in regard to multiple citizenship on the face of this planet. Not only does the Canadian government recognize multiple citizenship, but it also embraces it. A Canadian citizen is not required to exit or to enter Canada with a Canadian passport, but is required to identify themselves as a Canadian citizen to authorities.
To save money, many Canadians who are also Americans thus travel exclusively with their U.S. passport.
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Could swear I have already answered this question on another forum earlier today . . .
how should i answer this
in US Citizenship General Discussion
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The tickets of 2006 and 2009 triggered a YES at question 16. When the I.O. goes through your N-400s, bring this up. You NEED to have this on record or you won't sleep again for the next few years.