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Arlington here..

Do the follow-up by sending the documents to USCIS as recommended by Aaron. Many times the various agencies of the US govt do not talk to each other, therefore, there is no reasonable expectation that USCIS would know of actions taken by the Dept. of State

Read from the links below so you get the facts and peace of mind from the Dept. of State.

1. http://adoption.state.gov/us_visa_for_your_child/citizenship.php

2. http://adoption.state.gov/content/adoption_process/faqs/child_citizenship_act_of_2000.php

Leatherneck - thanks allot for the link you have provided. They are very helpful and informative. Thanks.

USCIS sent the reminder letter because the agency is not aware that your daughter is now a US citizen. You and your husband probably never informed USCIS that your USC husband adopted her and she derived US citizenship from him based on the Child Citizenship Act. In addition, US passports are issued by the US State Department, so USCIS is not aware of this fact either.

To foreclose any confusion about your daughter later based on the incomplete information that USCIS has (a claim later that she is in the US illegally because she did not remove the condition on her green card), it might be best to reply to the letter by sending back your daughter's green card, a copy of the adoption decree, a copy of the biographical page of her adopted father's US passport, a copy of the biographical page of her passport, and a letter explaining that she was acquired US citizenship through her adopted father and she does not need to apply to remove the condition on her green card.

Aaron, thank you very much for your succinct reply. Yes, we did not informed the USCIS about this adoption. We thought, they would automatically update their file when we apply for her US passport and updated her SSN status.I guess we were wrong. Again thank you much.

It's not important at all to get the Certificate of Citizenship (CoC) when your daughter's US citizenship has already been acknowledge by the US government when they issued a US passport to her.

There is no need to apply for US citizenship for your daughter next year, she is already a US citizen. Her US passport proves that she is a US citizen.

Thanks for your reply. Sorry if I appear hasty to you. I already know that she is a US citizen through her adoption. I am asking this because though my daughter has a US passport already and updated her SSN status, USCIS sent her a letter reminding her to remove her conditions and I am confused on what to do. Our lifting of conditions starts this month March.

Anyone has an answer to my question?

Me and my daughter arrived here on a K1/K2 visa. My husband adopted my daughter right after my daughter received her 2 year conditional green card. My daughter has a US passport already and we also updated her status as US citizen in her SSN.

How important is it to get a Certificate of Citizenship from USCIS for my daughter. As stated above, she has a US passport. Could not getting a Certificate of Citizenship affect her in the future even though she has a US passport? Me and my husband are planning to apply a Citizenship for my daughter next year.

Sorry I ask this again because I did not get a definite answer before.

Regards.

Clarification: How important is it to get a Certificate of Citizenship from USCIS for my daughter. As stated above, she has a US passport. Could not getting a COC affect her in the future even though she has a US passport?

Oh, wait, I think I get it. You're asking if your daughter has to lift conditions, right? She's a US citizen now, so there are no conditions to lift, right?

Yes, she is a USC now through adoption. That is what I asking, on what to do because I am confused.

The con is pretty clear: your husband will be deported if he does not file to lift conditions and allows his conditional residency to expire.

Thanks for your reply Mike, but my husband is the USC. I will lift my conditions starting next week. I am asking for my daughter on what to do since she has a US passport already, acquired through adoption from my husband.

Hello again my VJ family. Last week, we received a letter from USCIS reminding me of our renewal on our conditional green card to a 10 year visa.

Background: My husband adopted my then 3 year old daughter now 5 years old. She has a US passport already and we also updated her status in her SSN. As of now, we don't like to get a Certificate of Citizenship for my daughter yet. We are planning to do it next year.

My question is:

What happen to the status of my daughter if we will ignore the letter? What are the pros and cons? If there is any?

Thank you in advance.

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I am sorry this happen to you, in regards with the changing of address, send AR-11 form to USCIS. In our experience before, we change our address online but our address on their system does not change at all.They always send our notices to the old address. I would suggest that you would send the actual AR-11 form to make sure that it is really change (this is what we do before) and you can surely receive your GC in your new address.

Good luck and have faith.

Liz.

Hi, i need some serious help here, im so so distraught, confused, hurt, cant eat, sleep anything.

My husband petitioned for me, we got married last Feb, and had a great relationship for 2 1/2 years. But on this the last leg of waiting for the green card (for the past month) he has been cheating on me. He confessed to cheating and said that he wanted to do what ever it takes to make it up to me and save our marriage. I arrived in the US 3 days ago, and the first day i was here he was apologising non stop, he loves me and wanted to make it up to me. But two days later, he just left me at the house and ran off with her, he told his friend who lives at the house that he wont come home until im gone!!!

I didn't see this coming at all, everything has been great between us and we loved each other deeply.

So now im at his cousins house who have been great and feel sick to their stomachs since they love me and cant believe hes done this to me. His cousin works in health care and wants me to stay with her and says she can help me find a job etc.

Im so confused, I don't want to just go home to the UK, i need to stay out here for abit and find closure, and i dont want all the money, time and effort that i invested into moving to the US and starting a new life to be for NOTHING. So i would like to stay (at least for a while), where do I stand on this? its not my fault hes done this to me!

Also, the green card will be sent out soon(ive changed the address to his cousins), but how long does it usually take for them to send this out? Ive been here 3 days- and im worried that it will be sent to HIS address. Will the change of address redirect the card to the address I just put down (his cousins). Plus I have now changed the address on the AR 11 form twice since arrival (when i arrived i had to change the address to his current address since NVC hadn't changed it).

Please help!!!

We used the P.O Box address of my husband from I-130, and all forms in NVC. We have no problems at all.

Liz.

Thanks Saylin, appreciated it much.

Hello again, I'm back asking question. lol. First of all I want to thank Saylin for always answering my questions here. I called the NVC automated system last night and it says "Your case is completed on November 25, 2011". Now, my question would be, can I start calling this Monday to ask for an interview date? Or shall I wait for them to email me? How long it would take for them to schedule an interview date for Manila embassy.

Thanks.

Saylin thank you for always replying me, that is what I am also thinking about. If we just send the current and get an RFE later on. I wish I knew this before that it is just ok to send the current year. My husband just order it last Monday. It does arrive in his mailbox yet.

Since he got a new job, he's going to need to fill out a new I-864 so it's updated. And if he can get the employment letter, that'd be good, although not a big deal as you have a co-sponsor. Now, I don't know how the embassy in the Philippines is, but you shouldn't have a problem as you do have a co-sponsor and all their documents, and they make enough for a household size of two. They might ask questions, they might not. I don't know what kind of questions Philippines ask. But be prepared and know what the co-sponsor does for employment and such.

For tax information, it's only required to send last year's information (2010). It's completely optional to send the last three years (2008, 2009, 2010).

My husband and I decided to do three years, "just in case". We didn't want to just send the recent year and then be issued an RFE for the other two years for whatever reason. Even though his other two years were below the poverty line, we still sent them.

When did you order the IRS transcripts? I know when my husband ordered them, it only took about a week.

Hello jon&cess - I have read your post and noticed that your hubby only send his 2010 IRS? is this correct? I just want to ask this again though I already read it, just want to make sure. Me and my husband has been debating on this IRS thing, either we just send only the 2010 IRS, etc. This IRS is delaying our AOS package. Because I want my husband to send 2008,2009, and 2010 but my husband insist just to send the 2010. So for the meantime we are waiting for his 2008, 2009 to arrive in the mail. Thanks for your reply.

Hello everybody! I'm back! and I really need your advice regarding my case. Please do help me! I badly need it!

For starters, I'll be having my USEM Manila interview on December 9 @ 8:30am. So basically, I'm preparing all of the necessary documentations and paper works that I'll be needing to present during the interview. A lil backstory : During the NVC process, we passed our AOS packet which contains the following : Hubby's IRS & W2s (2010), original pay stubs & I-864 (no employment letter coz he's unemployed during that time). He's total income was also below the 125% required on the poverty guidelines ($11k last year), so we opted having a co-sponsor. Also included in the AOS packet was the co-sponsor's IRS & W2s (2010), original pay stubs, I-864, employment letter and biographic page of his US passport. Co-sponsor's total income was around $38k (for household size of 2, co-sponsor & me, the intending immigrant).

Earlier this month (november), hubby got a new job at firestone but only earns $12/hr flat rate. We are planning on requesting an employment letter from firestone (so that I'll have one in case it will be asked during the interview). But yeah, he'll still be below the 125% requirement on the poverty guidelines.

Here is my query, will I have a problem during USEM interview regarding my hubby's AOS (since he is the petitioner and still earns below the 125% requirement in the poverty guidelines though recently employed)? Or I'll do just fine since we have a co-sponsor? Will the CO ask me questions regarding our co-sponsor, his employment history, assets etc? I'm kinda worried here!

P.S. I've made a separate thread for this but no one seems to bother to respond. I really need you help guys & gals!

Thanks for your quick reply Saylin. My husband don't have the originals anymore (since he sent it in our I-130), what he has now is only a scanned copies of my marriage and birth certificate. Do you think this would be ok, since they have my originals already? If I would send another originals, it would take another three weeks to get to my husband.

For the I-130, you were only supposed to send COPIES. With the IV package, you have to send the originals or certified copies of the beneficiary's birth certificate and the marriage certificate. And yes, you'll also need to include two more 2" x 2" photos of the beneficiary. It might seem repetitive, but that's the way it is.

good morning everyone - I would like to ask about the DS230 package. Do I need to send another marriage certificate, birth certificate, 2x2 photos to NVC when I already send it in my I-130 package before? The marriage certificate, birth certificate that I included in my I-130 package before are all originals. Thanks is advance for the reply.

good morning everyone - I would like to ask about the DS230 package. Do I need to send another marriage certificate, birth certificate, 2x2 photos to NVC when I already send it in my I-130 package before? The marriage certificate, birth certificate that I included in my I-130 package before are all originals. Thanks is advance for the reply.

Thank you very much for a quick reply Dave&Roza. I really appreciated it. I will scanned my NBI immediately and send it to my husband. Thanks a lot.

The answer about copies and originals is contained within the instructions of all forms and it states:

"Copies: Unless specifically required that an original document be filed with an application or petition, an ordinary legible photocopy may be submitted. Original documents submitted when not required will remain part of the record, even if the submission was not required."

So a legible photocopy is fine. Should you give them the origianl it will be kept and not returned. So you are also doing the correct thing by taking the original to the interview. I would recommend also taking a copy so the IO can look at the original and make a note on the copy when/if they keep it.

Good luck,

Dave

Thanks babystef.

in my case i sent the original copies to my husband and ne sent it to the NVC..during my interview the pre screener returned to me my personal copy..i also have additional copy of NBI in case they will look for updated one. but luckily they did not look for it. better be ready. Goodluck

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Hello again my fellow filers. I would like to ask, is it really necessary to send the original NBI clearance to NVC or a photocopy (meaning a scanned copy of the original)would be enough? I ask this because I send my original NBI document to my husband three weeks ago and still he did not receive it. Is scanned copy of NBI would be enough? I will just provide the original during my interview?

Thanks.

Hello again my fellow filers from October to November. I would like to ask, is it really necessary to send the original NBI clearance to NVC or a photocopy (meaning a scanned copy of the original)would be enough? I ask this because I send my original NBI document to my husband three weeks ago and still he did not receive it. Is scanned copy of NBI would be enough?

Thank you and good luck to all of us.

Allegra thank you very much for your reply. Now I understand why it is disabled. Thank you for clarifying it. I talked to my husband a while ago and he said he did not received any email from NVC regarding the IV Application fee. How long would it take until he can received an email. My DS-3032 was just accepted yesterday October 26.

You have to wait until you receive the e-mail invoicing you. It works right after that.

You should send them an e-mail asking them why you are unable to pay, they sometimes send an invoice as soon as they read the e-mail.

Thank you for the reply Saylin. My husband used IE and Mozilla Firefox, still the select box is disabled.

Are you using anything but IE as a browser? If you are, close it, and open IE. Any other browser will give you problems when paying bills.