tokyobelle

Got back from the oath ceremony which was held at the local USCIS office. The letter says to arrive at 8am, but the ceremony started at 8:30. There were 26 people naturalized today, and there was another ceremony after ours.
Time to update my Social Security info, and get a passport. Thank you everyone, and thanks visajourney for being there throughout my 4-year immigration journey.
Good luck!

Got back from the oath ceremony which was held at the local USCIS office. The letter says to arrive at 8am, but the ceremony started at 8:30. There were 26 people naturalized today, and there was another ceremony after ours.
Time to update my Social Security info, and get a passport. Thank you everyone, and thanks visajourney for being there throughout my 4-year immigration journey.
Good luck!

Darnell I travel around this Country every year (over 15 years) 20/30 times per year to give conference about domestic violence to counselors,social workers and psychologists, to provide them with information about what they can advise or not to the DV victims .The advise you gave here to this woman IT'S DAMN WRONG! . WE domestic violence advocates will not tell/advise to the victims to reconcile /work in their marriage when psychical abuse is happening,and nobody should advise either.
The first thing we have to tell to the victim is LEAVE THE ABUSER NOW,SEEK A SAFE PLACE, and later on you think about your marriage. The person's safety comes first than her/his marriage. This woman is being physically abused ,please never ever suggest/advise to victims of domestic violence to put themselves in danger! to stay in the same house,to talk with the husband.This is a really bad advise.When a victim call the domestic violence helpline,the victim will not hear " honey calm down,seat with him, talk to him,maybe he is in "pain, stress out", nope, the victim will hear GET OUT OF THE HOUSE NOW AND CALL THE POLICE!
If the abuser later on attend one year of anger management classes,individual therapy for at least 6 months, then the abused person might seat and talk to the abuser. THERE IS NO EXCUSE FOR ABUSE such as pain, stress. Domestic violence and abuse is just about the abuser to gain and maintain total control of the victims! it's about POWER AND CONTROL,that is it!
Each year 220.000 women are battered in this Country, around 3.000 women are murdered every year in the USA. I ask you and everyone here if you read ,heard or saw someone being abused please tell the person "GET OUT OF THE HOUSE NOW"!, saying the right thing can save someone's life.
In the US: call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233 (SAFE).

Many abusive people don't want to file for a GC because they fear that by keeping the spouse "un-free" will force them to rely on the USC so the immigrant can't leave. Many men also fear "independent" women (there are a million on this board) so in an extreme version, keeping them chained keeps them dependent on the USC. That way they get a wife at home that depends on them totally no matter what they do.
I find it despicable to attack the OP's use of English as a reason to attack her or her story. The question of her English shouldn't be answered by someone who "lives with a Russian" but by people who actually speak at least two languages. Someone who speaks only one language is not capable, in my view, of understanding what it is like to learn a second language and what is possible. When someone gets attacked they would naturally get flustered and probably reply faster and make more mistakes. For a second language, speaking is not easier than writing for all people.
The OP is very possibly a hurting abused person who needs help, and is making all kinds of excuses because that is what an abused person does. USCIS can make an appropriate determination regarding her story (if she goes that route). It's not up to us.
OP - you got some good info on your options at the start of the thread.

Being a soldier and risking his life doesn't excuse abuse. Of course people are advising off her side of the story, what else would they do? That is the case for every single post here. Posters have to assume what is being said is true in order to give advice. I'm not sure where your hostility is coming from in calling her out as ridiculous and horrible based on ... the idea that she COULD be lying? We all could be, you included. But unless her spouse comes here to defend himself we will have to assume what she says is true. And it does read like a classic abusive relationship.

Because the husband is in the military he deserves more leeway? No sale. Take half of what's been told as the actual truth and the husband is not acting like a decent person.

I'm sure you would believe his side because that is what is going on right now. But actually his side is heard and mine is silent. That's why I'm still here with no papers.

I think you are going to find it isn't even relevant until someone from the outside makes it so. A child does not consider themselves "different" unless someone instructs them that they are.
So it seems to me a more productive question is how a bigoted environment affects children. Because it simply is not relevant otherwise. I can't think how it would be different if our kids were born out of a caucasian womb.
We can't decide that there have to be major differences when there are none. That is a legitimate research result. Both of us are human and there is only one race actually - the human race.

Good luck with your interview!
I used binder clips for all documents. When entering the Tokyo Embassy, we were given a large folder with a page of instructions dictating what order to put all the documents.
I had all my I-134 documents combined with small binder clips and put together with a large binder clip. Then we put all the documents in correct order inside the folder.
There is tape and a photo resizer available. My fiancee put tape behind the photo and attached it to the DS-156. The lady in the front desk specifically said that the photo must be attached.
Also, I should point out that there is a vending machine for drinks in the interview area and also a photo booth in case you need pictures.
I should also point out that the process was 1000% easier than when I got my CA driver's license!!!

People like you and also fake couples is why the system is so backed up! If they left it to just the real couples wanting to immigrat their foreign spouse here maybe people wouldnt have to suffer months of waiting! Food for thought. If your intent is to go to her country why waste time and money to do a visa for her to come here...it makes no sense what so ever
Also why dont you add a note to you petition that this is for a vaction as it seems see how fast your petition gets denied! I rest my case

I had a similar issue. When I applied for a new passport in 2009 (lost the old one) my birth certificate surfaced with a slightly more complete name than the one I had been using. So now my official IDs (passport, drivers' license) reflect my complete name as in BC.
When I applied for NBI clearance last week, I requested that apart from my current complete name, they also put in my old name on the space for "alias" or "AKA". I understand this is what the US Embassy has required from previous interviewees with a similar problem. (I am also planning to go in with affidavits "one and the same" but I doubt whether they will be requested, I will just have them in case of need.)
YOu could go the official name change route, but that will take a long time.
Good luck.

Tokyobelle,
I guess its time for you to consult a lawyer. It is a complicated case now basing I think on the move that you are considering (hey, I am not a lawyer):
1. " is there any way that i could retain the spelling Vicquera and have that appear on my new NBI clearance. because my previous employer's reason for not fixing that in the first place was because it takes time." --- Your supporting papers , mother birth certificate and siblings are all spelled correctly "VIQUIERA". If you are going to changed this to "Vicquera", I GUESS it will go to a judicial process (lawyer and courts) which will take more time (years) and money ) and not thru RA 9048 which specifically says and can only be used a "correction of clericall error entry".
2. Why not just change or correct the spelling of your birt certificate to "Viquiera" through RA 9048 and after doing that correct your passport and NBI clerance and other documents to reflect the spelling corrected birth certificate of your to "Viquiera".
3. Consult a lawyer which move would be best for you.

Few questions though:
1. What surname (spelling) does it show on your mothers and sibllings birth certificate?
2. If your mothers and brothers/sister birth certificate shows the surname/spelling Viquiera, then you need to correct your birth certificate through R.A. 9048 - no lawyer needed. Just go to the Local Civil Registrar Office where you were born and ask about the process. Bring supporting documents such as your mothers birth certificate that shows the correct spelling of her surname - Viquiera and also your brothers/sister birth certificate. All should be from NSO. This will be the basis for the spelling/typhogarphical error correction of your birth certificate assuming that your mothers, brother and sister shows the surname Viquiera.
3. According to you - items b and c - you are using Vicquiera as surname in your passport. If items 1 and 2 - your mothers surname, brothers and sister shows Viquiera on their birth certificate, I THINK only after you correct your birth certificate through R.A. 9048 will you be able to correct your Passport surname/biographic data since birth certificate is a requirement to get a passport.
4. Per NSO, it takes about 30 working days for the spelling/typhogarhical error of Birth Certificate.
Hope this helps. My wife is also having the spelling of her fathers name corrected in his death certificate and R.A. 9048 is the process that we took per the Local Civil Registrars Office.