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Dana-Mića

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  1. I arrived to the USA as a refugee from Serbia through international rescue committee maybe you can contact them and they might be able to help with the passport situation. I know that if you come as a refugee you might not need a passport I didnt have one. But your husband is not comig as a refugee so I am not sure how it will work. Do they have emergency passports like the USA gives to Green card holders that don't have passports? I wish you the best of luck.

    Off topic my husband was/is a refugee as well but he got Serbian citizenship and their passport which he used to come here on the cr1 visa.

  2. As a natural born US citizen was told at the ripe old age of 16, had to get an SS card before I could get a job in the salt mines. I can't think of one instance over these years where I ever showed my card to any one. Just memorized and wrote down my SS number.

    Same with my wife, because of this stupid American Patriot Act, couldn't even add her to my bank account. Can tell you, I don't have 25 million bucks in my account, more like a buck eighty-nine, but in no way, could I add her to my account. Until she had that SS number. After months, we finally received her EAD card, I filled out the form for her, had her sign it, took her passport and EAD card to our SS office 37 miles away, I have to go there on business. Two weeks later she received that restricted card, but we went to my bank together. Was asked her SS number, she never showed the card, and didn't know what her SS number was, memorized that and gave it to the bank officer. She plugged that number in her computer and said it was good. Finally, my wife was on my account and had 94.5 cents to spend.

    Since then, just updated that same form stored on my computer when she received her green card, took her card with me, then her certificate, just changing the date and the immigration status check box. But she has never shown her card either, even for a job application, but is always asking me what her SS number is. I think she finally memorized it now.

    Something now about the DOS checking with SS about your citizenship status now as they just received a hundred million bucks from Obama to keep track of this stuff. Now I wonder why in the hell if they have that information, they still want you to mail in your original naturalization certificate that can get lost. Perhaps is the reason why I feel I live in a country ran by idiots. But have to be very careful with that experienced opinion, powerful arrogant holding an ax over your head idiots, and they don't like being called that. But nevertheless, still idiots.

    Your post just made me laugh out loud. Now that I think about it I've had my S.S. card/number since Dec'98 and don't remember a time where I had to show the card to anyone, infact it stays in the house I never take it anywhere but I do remember the number.

  3. cao svima :).Iz Bosne sam ali na nasem forumu tamo nema aktivnih.Ima li iko da je cekao za NOA2 manje od 4 mjeseci?Nama je vec nekih mjesec i jos koji dan od NOA1 :( a meni je i to dugo..

    Imalo je pre ljudi ali za sad koliko ovde svi kukaju izgleda da su service centri malo usporili. Sadrzi se malo na kraju sve ce biti okej. Svoje vrjeme iskoristi pripremanjem svih dokaza koje ces ti ili tvoja druga polovina nositi na intervju. Ispuni ostale papire unaprjed ako hoces. Znam da mi je lako ovo da kazem kad je moj muz vec kraj mene ali vjeruj mi 9 miseci nas je uzeo cjeli proces i dva puta sam tamo putovala ali nista nije bilo dovoljno sa tim cekanjem jedino sto mi jeste malo pomoglo je ovaj visajourney. Nasla sam se sa ljudima koji su aplicirali za istu vizu ko i ja u istom mjesecu i dana danas smo u kontaktu jedni sa drugima, mi smo jedne druge podrzavali i pomagali kroz cjeli proces.

  4. Depends on your financial status I guess. I pursued my fiancee, she did not pursue me. I met her through a friend who son is married to her friends sister. She happened to be one of my facebook friends. Every situation is different, so is every culture. How would they live without me being in their life, they would life as they always have and my fiancee would be there working to help the family unit survive. I have no regrets in helping her family. THey are not greedy and have never asked for any money. I give an allowance to help because I can afford to do it and my soon to be wife will have peace of mind that I took care of the responsiibility that she is obligated to do in her country, when I remove her from doing it to concentrate on our marriage, life together and starting our family. To each their own, but for one thing, no one can compare their situation to others, they are all different, different cultures, etc...

    Yes Serbia is different from the Philipines but the parents have the same expectations in fact in Serbia the son usually stays with the family to take care of them or has them move in with him once they are older. My husbands family is poor (till two years ago they had lived in an immigration camp together with my husband) but I still believe that they can survive even without our help. If we sent them money it would help a little but as of now us sending that money would put as at a disadvantage since we are expecting and need to move out on our own and my husband is the only one working. If we hadd extra money than yes I think he would gladly agree to send them money but in my opinion that money should only go towards his parents care and not anyone elses. I guess that is just my opinion just like yours is your opinion. Our cultures might be way different but there are expectations with in every family and those expectations are met one or another way or adjusted over time. My husband and my future child will always top the needs of anyone be that in my family or his.

  5. When I first came here my parents used to send money like a hundred here and there to my fathers parents but that stopped once they came here. Now that my husband is here and his whole family is over there I've thought about it and sometimes even said to my husband send a hundred to your dad. But my husband is smarter than I am he says the only time he will send money is when we aren't struggling to live here and that's not anytime soon. I don't think people that come here should be a meal ticket for the ones back there. What would they do if we never came here? Who would help them out? It isn't fair to us especially when we are taking money that we can really use and sending it over there.

  6. When my family first arrived they received food stamps or should I say we and we didn't have to pay them back. Oh and we didnt have them for too long just for the first few months. Did we sit around and not do anything? Nope my dad got a job the second week here and my mom 6 months after she got here, the rest of us went to school. I should say that we came here through IRC from a war torn country and that might of qualified us but regardless the point is we didn't just use and abuse the system , they got jobs worked hard and still do.

  7. It depends. You cant get food stamps in NYC without an income or a way to prove you have some way to support your needs. I have US citizen children and I was on foodstamps. You really dont get that much and they did put me through a lot in order to get what I did get for the children.

    I live in NYC as well and have seen obscene amounts in food stamps by people I know for a fact are illegal aliens. My friends mom gets about 450 a month based on 2 kids not including my friend. A lady that lives in my building gets 700 a month and she only has one child.

  8. If their children were born here then THEY are USCs and are eligible for food stamps. Again, unless someone messed up, they should only be receiving enough to cover tr children. Additionally, Medicaid to cover pregnancy is often different than regular Medicaid. LPRs may be eligible for this without a waiting period and in some states illegal immigrants may be as well. Just because they are eligible, however, does not mean it won't have to be paid back down the line.

    That is what I meant they get it based on the children. I understand its based on the children and all and I guess it just upsets me because they work off the books so their income isn't really counted towards how much they should get or not get. I understand they work hard and do jobs that some people would never do but it still isnt fair to people who are legally here and might cualify for the benefits but disqualify because they are an LPR and haven't lived five years here or worked a certain amount of hours.

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