BlueBonnet

Sorry, been horrible about keeping updating. Its nice actually having a life now instead of sitting at home all day

Filed the I751 late July, done biometrics already, and recieved a letter automatically extending my green card until Sept. 30 2014. Just recieved a letter today saying were being moved to California from Vermont.

Does that mean another interview ? I always expected to have a 2nd, so no biggy, got no RFEs this time, so thats good, need to get my DL again as it expires in 10 days.

I gave you a thumb up just for the positive attitude !

Thanks for the smile you put on my face today !

The OP mentioned that they have a 6 month old baby .... are you aware that her hormones are still out of balance. It takes about a year before all that is back in check, so please stop complaining about her actions, and just try to be more patient and understanding of what she is going through.

Youre definetly getting an interview letter. You will have 30 days to prepare, so I would start getting your evidence book ready now. good luck

You should read some timelines around your country. People will post their experiences there. I doubt a lot of people will remember the questions if it was some time ago. What I found mostly though, after the legal questions, are you free to marry ect. finger prints ect. that mostly the interview is more a conversation. Now this could be that the CO who interviewed me had reviewed our petition for over a half of an hour, or because he believed me ( I just have that face ) or that I come from a country that is not high fraud, there are just to many variables to really answer you in a way that is beneficial.

I do remember ( after the interview I figured these were trick questions ) ... at the first window, hours before the interview, I handed in my paperwork, and the lady came back and asked me to spell my (now) husbands middle name. At the time I thought nothing of it, and just spelled it for her, but afterwards, I was like ... she has his birth cert. , why is she asking me ?

The other odd question was more a statement that I corrected him. The interviewing CO said .. So you have duo citizenship .. to which I answered, .. no, I am only a PR, and I offered to find him my PR card.

He did ask me how we met, and about my previous marriage... but even those didnt feel like questions, it really felt like casual conversation.

You can call 1 800 O Canada .. they can answer all your questions.

But from what I read, your mother is a Canadian Citizen, as that is where she was born, your father a US citizen, because thats where he was born. Your citizenship is to where you were born, but you may apply for a Canadian passport based on your mothers citizenship. It doesnt matter where she was raised.

I have a friend living in London, England. When I asked him how he got through immigration, he said his grandfather was born in the UK, so he was able to get his citizenship via that.

Its really not that difficult .. the USA allows "grandfathering" in for citizenship aswell, so this isnt something new.

Oh, and Canada does too ... they have a serious issue where other people would come to Canada, have the baby, take the baby back to whatever country they are from, raise said baby, and when baby is an adult, that person will come back to Canada, sponser his/her parents and they will retire on Canadas system. They know this happens, but they dont know how to stop it.

I wouldnt worry to much. When I sent in my pkg3 .. I completely missed a form entirely. The schedualed me and I showed up to my interview. It was at this time, that the mistake was brought to my attention. I was freeking out thinking that I would have to go home, redo and rescheduale ... nope, they led me to a back room with computers and just let me do it there. People make mistakes, im sure that I wasnt the first to make one, nor will I be the last. The consulates are quite accomidating.

We never sent in a letter of employment. We submitted copies of his pay stubs and a letter explaining why we didnt have the letter. We figured at the time, that if we got an RFE for it, then so be it, we would take care of it at that point. We never got an RFE for it.

If I were you, I wouldnt send in a letter of employment at all, I would send a letter stating why I didnt have one, then back of proof of employment with current pay stubs.

I honestly know nothing about it, Ive never had to pay for healthcare or insurance .. my belief system is that it should be available to everyone when they need it. I think insurance companies are greedy and I will never understand how Americans can think that having to pay for healthcare at all is fair. With that being said, Ive never been much into politics. Ive never been allowed to vote, I wont be able to vote here, but as for being told that I have to buy insurance, I fall into the grey place where the US gov. cant force me to, or fine me for this.

i think your mother in law is right. why are you sleeping over at your friend's house??? your husband allow you to do this?? Respect her and abide by her rules.

Please tell me this reply was a joke !

Never ever live to please another person ... why ... because its impossible.

A relationship, any and all healthy relationships are build on compromises and respect. I want what I want, you want what you want, lets meet in the middle.

Abide by her rules ... what is the OP ? 6 ?!

Thanks Bluebonnet, my visa was approved!

I saw that on another thread you did ! Congratulations !!!!

So exciting isnt it, being at the end of that phase of the journey of the rest of your life ... all those lonely days dont seem so bad anymore.

Yes every state is different. When I did mine back in the 90's I just had to walk up to a mall kiosk, hand in my Canadian licence, do a simple eye test and boom there was my new Colorado drivers licence right there. Just took 10 mins for the card to come out so I did a marketing survey in the mall to waste 10 mins and got paid $5. Ahhh the good old days when you could just do it that way. Now it's a pain...

Not a pain, this is exactly what I did last year too. The worst was waiting my turn, but other than that, just hand it over, eye test, picture, done.

I'm almost done the CR1 process (fingers crossed) in three weeks I'll get to stay with my husband for the first time instead of just visiting. All the waiting made the past ten months seem like an eternity but now I can't believe how fast things are moving. If all goes well with my interview it will have been about 10 months from noa1 to visa in hand, you might get lucky and be through even quicker. Study the guides, follow Saylin's instructions (she is a godsend to us all) spend as much time as you can together on Skype, and try to find the money to visit (I've found that taking a bus to the US and flying domestically is generally cheaper). We are lucky that we can visit during this process, people from some countries can't. This can only make your relationship stronger. Have faith in that. It will be worth it.

Not trying to change the subject here, but I noticed your timeline .. Good luck tomorrow !!!!!

Its not just about income. If you dont make the income requirements you can use your assests aswell.

Try not to look at the long term ... when we were apart, we would just say ... Day by Day ... or One Day Closer ... take the baby steps, then it doesnt seem so bad.

I actually got my ESTA renewal notice via email ... and I was like ... um .. do I still have to do that ?

I found ESTA email address and sent them a message asking if I had to renew.

I was told, anyone holding a valid resident card didnt require ESTA anymore. ESTA for me, when I did have to apply, took less than 5 minutes. So I would think, for peace of mind, to have my ESTA number valid until I had the residency card in hand.

Check with the local DMV and find out what the rules are.

In Texas, when I got my EAD I thought I could finaly get my Texas DL , but nope .. the DMV site had the EAD listed as a form not allowed to be used. I had to wait for the greencard to show up. But honestly, my ALberta DL was good enough, it was a valid DL, so not having a Texas one didnt bother me to much.

Maybe what might help is the size. In Alberta, the short form is the size of a credit card, the Long form is not quite a full piece of paper.

I got made fun of for saying " eh " for the first year and a half and I don't use it anymore.

I am guilty of saying Eh. For such a little word it says so much.

Question Eh?

Excited Eh!

Fact Eh.

I try not to use slang, but that little buggar gets by sometimes.

Another word I use alot, is one I learned here ... it made me laugh so hard.

It was a thread posted by someone who was asking what words their S.O. was having difficulty saying so that they - the English speaking S.O. could understand. One person posted ... I could almost quote this :

Sometimes when she says Darling, it sounds like Dumbass.

I told my husband about this one, and whenever were jokey arguing, I call him darling ... he does it to me too.

Some light reading if you have time . . .

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/255868-usc-what-english-word-does-your-so-mispronounce-most-often/

Without having read previous posts from the OP, people who come here do need to understand, that unless they are asking a specific question, on a specific form, where the question is straighforward, and therefore the answer will be straighforward, that anything else is pretty much up for debate and opinions. We can offer up our personal experiences and hopefully some knowledge. The poster is going to get our opinions and possibly our judgements.

Any person who uses any open site, posts any question ( that isnt direct and specific ) is going to get some responses that they possibly dont like.

If you arnt willing to read up immigration rules and laws and learn on your own, where you make the choice to ask questions, you are putting yourself out there for any and all responses. And the OP of any thread is open to this, because they have opened the door for it.

There is no point to rant and rave over what you view as unfair and judgemental responses . . . its going to happen. So your choices are, read the guidelines, hire a lawyer, ask only specific questions to specific forms. If you choose none of those, and still post, then you have to be open to peoples opinions.

This is wierd to me. My parents were both born in Scotland, I was raised in Canada, and Ive never heard that. I dont do it either. Ive been around all the situations that you guys are claiming and Ive never heard this.

Its not bad or good, it just is what it is. Sometimes our significant others like our little quirks, its what make us who we are.

Good for that small-time news agency... one more person who believes they have finely tuned reporting skills is good news.

The law is there because, human beings cannot sometimes practice self-control.

I am sorry that such a thing happened to your friend. It was very rational of him to stop beating the boy. It was just perpetuating the abuse his step-daughter incurred.

I hope you can share that the abuser of his stepdaughter was punished by law.

No, the boyfriend, now ex of course, wasnt charged. The police said that if they charged him, that he would in turn have the right to charge her. The only ones charged were my friends husband and her brother. They got off easy if you ask me, only because of the size difference with these two grown men vs. the boyfriend. Even though I dont agree at all with what the boyfriend did ... I only shared to get the point across that vigilantie justice is not OK.

I have a friend who has kind of gone through the same thing.

My friend married a man, who already had 2 daughters. His oldest daughter called him one night saying that she was being beat up by her boyfriend. The father, and my friends brother drove to the house, where one of them kicked in the door. The father hit this boy ( he was in his 20s I believe ) so bad that he had a blood clot in his brain. The boy survived, but had he died, the father was looking at manslaughter. He was tried, there is a law against vigilanty justice. There is a difference between stopping what is happening, and going to far.

Its like the spanking law ( all I can think of at this time ) where the first spank is for the child, the second is for the parent, and its called abuse.

My friends husband was wrong, although I can see how it happens. Alot of people were on his side, but the law is pretty straight forward. Right or wrong, the law is the law.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2010/11/11/16085076.html

In his case, they viewed the time he got the call, to driving there, his chance to cool down. If he had been there while it happened and he re acted, there may have been a different outcome. As it was, my friend bore him 4 children, the youngest being 5 at the time, so the judge had him do his time on weekends so that he could still provide for his family though the week.

The just take your fingerprints, a picture, and confirm your information.

Its very easy, quick and unentrusive.

About the worst part of biometrics is the line ups.