Forum	Title	Content	Member	Sex	Country	Date/Time
US Citizenship General Discussion	N400 Tax Question	yes we were married in June 2009. I didn't know at the time that we were supposed to file married jointly. Im not sure what to do now? Do it both ways. See which is better and file the one that is better for you. Immigration wise it would be better to file the amended joint return. You may be in for a large tax refund if you were married in 2009. The form you want for the amended return is the "1040-X" Edited by Gary and Alla, 23 April 2012 - 06:24 PM.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-23 18:22:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	N400 Tax Question	OK thank you for your help! I would prefer not to do a 2009 tax amendment as we just want to get the N-400 filed and done with. Just making sure should the letter say that we were unaware that we were supposed to file married jointly or that I just didn't file because I had no income? You CAN file either jointly or separately. If you file your tax return before you file the I-751 there is no need for ANY letter, just attach a copy of the return. I think you should seriously look at filing an amended return, you could get quite a bit of money in a refund. It would not take long to basically fill out a 1040-x and attach everything else to it, you are basically changing the cover sheet and the filing status and recalculating the tax	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-23 18:27:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	N400 Tax Question	I did not know that. My parents are LPRs and has no income. Travel back and forth between Asian and U.S. Will this apply too ? Yes. LPRs MUST file tax returns. I found out that the amended processing time is 8 to 12 weeks, do I have to wait until the amended return is processed until I can file the N-400? or is there some kind of proof I can send with the N-400 that shows we have filed for the amendment? I was planning on filing the N-400 May 15th until I found out about the 3 previous year tax returns I needed to send. No. YOu can attach a copy of the amended return with all schedules and attachments. You do not need a transcript.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-25 23:21:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	N400 Tax Question	Permanent Residents are treated the same as U.S. Citizens for tax purposes. If their gross income is below the filing requirement then they don't normally have to file a return. See the link below to the IRS website to see if your parents need to file a return. Do You Need to File a Federal Income Tax Return? Do not confuse immigration law with tax law. You will not find any immigration requirements in the IRS tax code or an IRS tax site. you WILL find them in the letter which comes with your interview appointment for your citizenship. Bring your last three years tax returns or tax transcripts.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-25 23:24:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	When to file for Citizenship?	My wife came to the U.S. In Januaray of 2010, we were married in March of 2010. She received her conditional Green card in August of 2010. We will be filing for Adjustment of Status in May of this year, when can my wife file for Citizenship? Is it 3 years or 5 years? If 3 years that would be 2013 and 5 would be 2015? Thank you for any responses, James and Erma She can apply as early as May of 2013, provided she has been in the US continously with no absences of more than 6 months at that time.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-25 21:11:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Destroy Old Evidence??	Hello fellow members, Just a quick question regarding the paperrwork/evidence I collected and still havin in my posession. I married a US Citizen 3 years ago but unfotunately things took a turn for the worse and I am now divorced. I have got my 10 year greencard. I was recently going through my HUGE box of Visa paperwork and came across all my sponsors information, personal information that is. Also I still have the copies of all the packages I sent during the K1 process. My question is, would it be an issue to destroy my ex wifes familys information that they passed on to help with the visa process? I feel as if I no longer need to have that kind of information in my posession. I certainly wouldnt want my information out there (even though I have no intention to do anything with it ) I just want to cover my back and be done with it. Also, is it advisable to pretty much destroy everything, like the packages from the earlier stages of the process? Any input/advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. I would say no. Pack it up and put it away in the back of the closet. Sometime after you get citizenship you can destroy it if you want. Until then it could be useful. In fact I am just going to keep everything for a while myself even thogh Alla has citizenship now.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-26 19:45:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Naturalisation from K1- lots of q's	Hello...I'm hoping to clarify a few questions. I rec'd my conditional GC on Sept/2009 based on marriage that took place 07/09. I just got approved for PR 10 year card. I see that I qualify for 3 year based on marriage, correct? I also can apply up to 90 days in advance to my Sept 2009 GC, so I can apply July of this year? I came on a K1 and my son a K2. Is he able to naturalize under me if I file the additional form? My US Citizen husband is his step dad (not legal though)...but if I naturalize can my 8 year old do so with me? It talks about previous divorce decrees... I provided divorce docs from my first marriage for my AOS/ROC... do I need to provide them again? Along with all the other docs they request like tax scripts etc... Is there somewhere where I can find a specific list of all docs needed? If I file for my son with me, is it just the additional waiver I file or do I have to file a whole sep 400 for him? I am the only one that gets interviewed and tested, or does my son as well? thanks for the help...I am just starting to collect everything now ... Yes you can file 90 days ahead. Your children under age 18 will become citizens automatically when you do. You can get them their own certificate ($600) or just bring your citizenship certificate and their birth certificate to the passport office and get them a passport. A passport is proof of citizenship. The certificate for them is optional AND they can get one at any time in the future if they want. You do not file anything separately for your son under age 18. Just list him as a child on your N-400. You list ALL children of whatever age of whatever parentage, even if they are already US citizens such as husbands children from previous marriage (if any) YEs you need copies of divorce decrees AGAIN and at the interview you will bring the original and another copy. Warm up the copy machine! Edited by Gary and Alla, 25 April 2012 - 11:42 PM.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-25 23:36:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Husband Lost the Divorce Decree	My husband lost the copy of his Divorce Decree, Can this affect my Application for N400? USCIS has Copy of it when we File K1 and Removal Of Status. We try to look for it and we can't find it. His ex-wife remarried after their Divorce and She's been deceased for 3 years now. I just wanna make sure that this will not affect my application. Will send it today 4/24/2012 Yes, you will need it at the citizenship interview, the ORIGINAL, plus a copy for them to keep. Get another one from the court where the divorce occurred. Get it now. Should be able to do it with a phone call and mailing a check for a small fee.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-25 11:26:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Husband Lost the Divorce Decree	Her death certificate in your case should suffice if you can get a certified copy of that. But yes, for marriage, and this seems redundant since you already went through the AOS and the ROC stages to prove you were both free to marry. That you have to do it again for naturalization, again, plus yet another certified copy for your marriage certificate. One way to skip all this nonsense is to wait the full five years. The previousd marrige ennded in divorce, he needs the divorce decree, a certified original. A COPY is OK for the N-4000 buyt you will need to take the original with you to the interview along with ANOTHER copy and they will inspect them and keep the other copy. There is no telling how many copies of stuff they want, but if you want your citizenship approved you do it.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-25 11:29:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	A few simple questions	Hi Everyone, I've read all of the faqs, but I'm just a little confused about the time to file. Can I still file as early as 90 days ahead of time, like we did when removing conditions? Do you have to factor in short vacations? (e.g. we were on a vacation for 3 weeks in 2012, 1 week in 2011, 1 week in 2010). So do I have to count those 5 weeks from the 3 years (eg. do I send the N400 after 3 years+ 5 weeks), or can I still file after 3 years? Husband arrived Sept 3rd, 2009, so can I file as early as June 3rd or wait until Sept 3rd, OR wait until Sept 3rd + 5w? One more question. We did Direct consular filing for the green card. Our packet was sent from Israel to the USA. We never got our marriage certificate or any other documents back. I was told that they were going to keep that package in their files. Will we get those documents back during his interview? I need to send in a copy of our marriage certificate for the N400, and I don't have one. Do I have to try and order a new one, or should I try to locate our documents that they supposidly have. Thank you. YES you can file 90 days before. As the other member mentioned, it is 90 days which is NOT three months. Be careful of that, and it goes by when they receive it, not when it was postmarked. You will not get ay documents back from them and you will need to attach a COPY of the marriage certificate to your N-400 AND bring an original AND a another copy with you to the interview. Order a new original. At the interview they will look at the original, keep the copy and return the original. Do not leave without it.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-25 23:32:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Can you lose citizenship status, by living out of the country?	Hi, I recently received my naturalized citizen status. As part of my prep for the process I vaguely remember reading somewhere that you can lose your naturalized citizen status, if you stay/live out of the USA for a certain amount of time. I cannot find anything regarding that now, and I'm just trying to make sure we don't stay out of the country too long when visiting family abroad. Thanks A citizen can live outside the US for as long as you like, years, decades, 50, 60, 80 years and when you come back they will say "welcome home". You can renew your passports at US consulates overseas if you need to. You are confusing it with permanent residency.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-25 12:23:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Can you lose citizenship status, by living out of the country?	93k is tax free. Where did you get that from? Never heard of such a thing. To my knowledge, any income is to be reported to the IRS and only if you have paid taxes on this money abroad you might have the option of filing for a foreign income exclusion or foreign tax credit. If no taxes were paid anywhere else you would have to pay taxes in the US. US citizens are required to file income tax returns if they have income anywhere in the world. That is true. You can exclude up to the first $93,000 of income PLUS some forms of income are tax free...overseas bonuses and living expenses for example. To try to answer income tax questions here would be silly. Each individual has a different situation. The question was "is there a limit to how long a citizen can live overseas?" The answer is NO Tax issues are best handled by tax professionals. And even if you did not file income tax you would not lose your citizenship and would not be kept from returning (the IRS would be be happy to see you had returned) Edited by Gary and Alla, 25 April 2012 - 09:24 PM.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-25 21:21:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	naturalization	If the OP can prove that he maintained his ties to the US while he was away for longer than 6 months but less than a year, he is able to apply. USCIS wants proof of that in the form of tax transcripts, utility bills, mortgage/lease payments etc. He must also explain why he was away for more than 6 months. -- This is correct. He does not list it as an "address". It is a visit (or whatever, attending school for example) and should be listed in the travel section.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-24 19:17:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	N-400 Expedited Naturalization - 319b	Yes I qualify as I work for the UN. My wife's 6 months out side the US complete on 29th of April. Only thing unclear before we send the application is the fingerprints. If these can be done in the US just before the interview date, that would be fantastic. When did she get her 10 year green card? If it was within 15 months they will do her fingerprints AT the interview, that is what they did for my wife.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-23 18:39:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Naturlization	when i go to the interview do i have to take with me W2 and the forms 1040A? because i order the tax transcripts from the IRS and it didnt say 1722 it only say thax return transcript? i am confused about it? thanks. That's it, the tax transcript. IRS Tax transcripts contain all the tax information they may be interested in and it proves you've filed your taxes each year. You only need to bring the tax transcripts. There is no financial component to naturalization, they only need to see you HAVE filed your taxes as required.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-23 05:40:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	name change at interview	so lets just say my name before i got married was maria jones and when i got married I said to myself I would have my name as Maria jones-smith (smith is my spouse's last name), and got my GC and SS card with that name (first name maiden name- married name). Is the interviewer still going to ask you if you "want to change your name"?? when i read peoples interview experiences and what they were asked, the name change is one of them, so are there people here that have gotten married to a U.S citizen but still go by their maiden name on thie GC and SS card? - I am referring to an immigrant female getting married to a male U.S citizen and so that is why the interviewer asks if that person wants to change their name??? Yes. Alla did not change her name and her green card, SS card and drivers license were her "maiden" name. She changed her name with the citizenship. Her citizenship certificate is in her married name and before the ceremony she signed off on the court order of name change, which was done by the same district judge that did the citizenship oath. There were 8 others there that changed their name. The green card is surrendered at the oath ceremony, the name on the SS card really does not matter but I suppose she will change it eventually, she will change her drivers license tomorrow ($15) and her passport will be issued in her married name as on her citizenship certificate. She also got a name change change certificate at the oath ceremony. She may or may not get around to changing her name on her credit cards, etc. Her choice. As for the interview question, it is a question on the N-400 so I guess they are verifying the person wants to change their name or not. With citizenship you can change your name to anything you want.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-11 22:23:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Husband lost his job	We applied for citizenship in February and in March my husband lost his job (layoff). Is this going to affect our citizenship? no. There is no financial component to citizenship and the I-864 is terminated the moment you take the oath. What kind of financial information do you need to prove at the interview? The 3 years of tax transcripts and bank info aren't enough? Do you have to bring proof of employment for both people? And isn't the affidavit of support still in effect up until the oath is taken? This is the first I have heard of more financial requirements. It seemed to me that after AOS there was less financial info required. No. And the tax returns are not to prove employment or income, they are to prove you met the obligation to file taxes. There is NO income requirement at all. Bank statements of a joint account prove you are still living as married people, which IS a requirement. Edited by Gary and Alla, 18 April 2012 - 08:15 PM.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-18 20:14:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Husband lost his job	It seems Corporations are not the only ones going Overseas, everyone on VJ is going oversees to find a non-American Men or Women ??????????????? That is an AMAZING coincidence! We are actually hoping that the foreign spouse will bring a job with them!	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-18 20:21:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	questions regarding out of country trips impact on n400 application	So here is my situation. My wife is a CR 1 GC holder; we will be applying for removing her conditions in a couple of months when her 90 days countdown begins. My wife went back to Pakistan to visit her family last October and came back this feb. So my questions is regarding her N400 application. I know that we can apply for her to become a USC once she has been a permanent resident for 3 years (yes i am a usc) since she was out of the US for around 4 and half months does she have have to be present in the US for full three years before she can apply for naturalization? Meaning her 3yr anniversary date is in September 2013,she entered the US on a 2yr GC in sep 2010, do we need to add another 4.5 months to September before she can apply for USC. Also how does the 90 day early filing for the n400 play into all this. Thanks in advance. She must be present in the US for MORE THAN HALF the previous 3 years at the time of the application with no absences MORE THAN 6 months. She will report her absence of 4.5 months but it will not affect her ability to become a citizen UNLESS she has had several other extended absences and exceeds the 1.5 years total she is allowed to be absent. Her new green card will have a date which says, basically, US Resident Since..... and this will be the date her first green card was issued. You can file the N-400 90 days BEFORE the three year anniversary of that date. If she has been a resident since June 1, 2009, you can file her N-400 90 days BEFORE June 1, 2012. Because March and May have 31 days that would mean you can file her N-400 on March 3, 2012 or anytime thereafter. Edited by Gary and Alla, 15 April 2012 - 06:14 PM.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-15 18:09:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Received Form I-797C	I just sent out my application for citizenship Form N-400 on April 6. A few days ago I received an email saying I would receive a notice of receipt of my package soon. Today I received in the mail a Form I-797C Notice of Action. I'm presuming this is what is called in here the NOA1 and everything is normal and all going as it should be. Yes? I only ask this because I'm still not sure of all the abbreviations I read in here. I guess this form is a part of their paperwork reduction act? This is what is referred to as NOA1 On the form it will say "type of action" and it should say "receipt" That is all it is, a receipt. Keep it.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-15 18:05:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	How to count the days outside of the US	Hi everyone, I'm going through the papers and I have 1 questions (I'm sure I'll have more to follow). How do I have to get his days outside of the US Let's say he left on Jan. 01, 2012 - Jan. 3, 2012 Does that count as 1 day outside of the US meaning only Jan. 02, 2012 or does that count as 3 days out, Jan 1, 2 & 3? Thank youuu. Unless there was a whole LOT of those it will not matter anyway. Take the conservative approach and count it as 3. OR, you could logically consider that he WAS in the US on January 1 and WAS in the US on January 3 so it is only one day, BUT it really will not matter unless there was an awful lot of 3 day trips. For longer trips, several weeks for example, it really does not matter. 36 days vs 38 days? If he was present in the US more than 50% of the time and had no absences over 6 months without proof of maintaining residency, it is a moot point anyway.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-15 17:59:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Oath Letter questions on the back - when to fill out?	We filled them out at the ceremony before we were taken in. There was plenty of time. For city you do enter city of oath. We did likewise Oh I see, thank you for letting me know. Also, next to signature, it says "Full Address and Zip Code" -- is that the address of the ceremony location, I don't put my home address? Home address	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-15 18:02:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Did you send any other financial info besides tax transcripts?	The way I read it in the guide here and at the USCIS site is that 3 years of tax transcripts is sufficient for marriage related documentation. Did you add anything to this? Thanks. We also added three recent bank statements, current auto and health and insurance, copies of drivers licenses, etc as evidence we are still married and living together. For the three year rule to apply you need to show you are still married and living together.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-12 14:08:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Issues with jobs/moving	Number 1 it is not going to cause any problems with USCIS because you already lifted conditions and they do not care where she lives. even for citizenship proving you live together is not so important, if she wants citizenship in 3 years she needs to show you are still married. She could divorce you today and get citizenship in 5 years all by herself, so USCIS is not an issue. This sounds like a personal thing and NO I have not experienced my wife wanting to get another job and move away from me and it would not be acceptable, thats for me. If she wanted to do that we wuld get divorced first. On the other hand Alla may be starting another degree program this fall at a school 2 hours away and she may be staying there on campus 4 days per week and then coming home weekends. I am OK with that. Adding 4 hours driving every day plus her homework does not seem reasonable, expecially not in bad weather. But she would not be moving to another state and living there permanently and working there, no. I really cannot tell you what to do but USCIS is not an issue at your stage of the process.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-12 13:37:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Can your Spouse go with you to the interview?	Does anybody knows if your spouse is allow to go with you to the interview... I mean not exactly pass to the interview room and be present when the interview is being done, but wait in the waiting area... my husband is taking the day off to go with me in case I have the same day Oath Ceremony but I don't even know if they will allow him to pass with me to the waiting area.. I went along and waited in the waiting room. I was allowed in for the AOS interview but not for the citizenshp interview. It may be up to the officer.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-12 14:12:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Its Official	We had the oath ceremony today at the City Hall in New Haven VT. The children fromthe school next door had decorated the room with hand made flags for the countries of each of the 39 people taking the oath today. And collages of photos and information on each of the countries. It was quite an art gallery! There were new citizens from 3 from Ukraine, 2 from Russia and 1 from Belarus (For my fellow RUB members interest). The American Legion provided an honor guard, damn it is good to see M1 rifles still serving our country somewhere, they couldn't choose a better one. Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts were the "ushers" to seat the guests and also led the "Pledge of Allegience" The Beeman Grade School choir sang the National Anthem, "This Land is Your Land" "My Country 'Tis of Thee" and our state song "These Green Mountains" Really nice. The whole community was honored to be chosen for the ceremony. So Alla got her certificate and changed her name to mine. I guess she decided I was a "keeper" after all. Thanks to all the VJ members and good luck to all of you.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-09 20:49:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Its Official	Mega Congratulations Gary and Alla! From your post - it was a very nice ceremony, hope you got it on video. The honor guard were Marines from the Local American Legion with their M1s! And as an old Service Match shooter, I can tell you they were the real deal...no bullets though.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-10 17:49:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Oath Ceremony	Don't know about your first question but regarding your second: A US citizen must be in possession of a US passport to enter and leave the US. So once you get your certificate, apply for your US passport. Some passport agencies issue same-day passport if you show proof-of-travel in the near future. Best of luck! we just asked that same thing today. Oddly enough Alla has enjoyed going to Canada frequently using her green card and today was told she needs a passport, she cannot even go to Canada! The certificate is not a passport. So now, as a citizen, she has temporarily lost her privilege to go to Canada. "I can't go to Montreal? I will die!" We'll get the passports in a week or two. I think she will live.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-04-09 20:55:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Never received permanent resident card/Citizenship	Hi everyone! So my husband and I applied for a new permanent residency card to replace his expiring one, but it never came in the mail. We were in the middle of some rather unpleasant life events, so we both forgot about receiving the new card. Fast forward to about five months ago, when we realized that we never received the new card and his old one was expired. We applied for another one, thinking that it had been lost in the mail. We got the decision back, USCIS was like, "lol no, you pay for a new one!". Sigh. So we would need to submit $500+ dollars for a card that was never received. Now I just found out that he can actually apply for citizenship (we've been married 4 years). Is there absolutely any way that we can do this so that we don't need to apply for a new permanent residency card (since they need a photocopy of the front and back of it when applying for citizenship)? I know that we could send in a copy of the receipt of the petition for a new permanent resident card, but I'm really hoping to not have to pay for another one when we didn't receive the first one that we did paid for. Do you think a stamp from our local consulate would cover it? If you actually applied for the renewal you got a letter extending his old card for one year and a case number with which you can check on the case. Do so. If you did not get this letter and case number, then you also forgot to apply for renewal and that could be a much more difficult problem. Did you move? Could the new card have been not forwarded to your new address? In any case, you need a green card in order to apply for/receive US citizenship.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-02-18 06:36:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Never received permanent resident card/Citizenship	You'll have to pay for the new card first, have it in hand and then apply for citizenship. The first card was only good for 2 years. The minimum number of years a spouse must be a permanent resident before applying for citizenship is 3 years. Not to cause alarm, but did they say he was in the system as being renewed? I don't have experience with an expired card, but you really want to make sure he isn't out of status. He probably should not leave the country until the matter is resolved as it could cause issues with re-entry. He definitely should not leave the country until his status is known. The story is a bit strange in that when you apply for renewal you get a one year automatic extension and often the cards are renewed with no interview, just sent in the mail. Worst case you would do a form I-90 for a lost card and get a new one. If the renewal was never filed, it is possible that his residency expired. Which could require the filing of a new petition for a spouse. For that I would talk to the USCIS by making an infopass appointment	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-02-18 06:40:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	test questions asked	For those of you who have recently just passed their interview. what test questions did they ask you? if you can remember. Study every question, do it every night. In 4-5 nights Alla had them all down pat, no problem. Just read through them with your spouse and when she did not know the answer, I told her. Then went over them again. We studied maybe 20 minutes every night for a few nights and she had them all. At HER interview they asked questions until she would get 60% right (minimum 6 questions). They asked her 7 questions, she got one wrong. They asked her what the age RANGE was for registering for the draft, that is NOT the question in the test questions which was at what age does one need to register for the draft...age 18. The maximum age is 26 but she did not know that. I don't know if she remembers the other ones. Just study them all, it is easy.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-03-14 18:17:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	test questions asked	Are the questions multiple choice as per the link above or are we asked them verbally and expected to know the answers.... I find multiple choice much easier. They can do it different ways. Some just read the question and you answer. The study document is not "multiple choice" it is multiple answers. ANY of those shown are correct and accepted. In some cases they give you pencil and paper and ask you to write your answers. But if English is your native language I doubt they will do that. Alla has a masters in English and Teaching English so they did not challenge her English ability either.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-03-14 18:20:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	test questions asked	And trust me, it is not a scary interview in any shape or form. Just to this perspective my 73 year old Dad and 65 year old mom passed the interview in flying color with 100% accuracy. The interviewers are really polite and helpful and unless you are toooooooo nervous and get into a black out, you will be just fine. For the questions, they ask random questions (I think a software does that) out of the question bank. Good luck I agree it is not scary and not difficult really, but in our case it was the most thorough of any interview and the person seemed to be very professional and complete and sudied each document and asked all the questions. Allas citizenship interview took over 1/2 hour. I thought that was a long time but she said there were no problems, just a lot of stuff to go over. Our AOS interview was MUCH fatser and easier.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-03-14 18:24:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	Travel abroad immediately after naturalisation interview	Thank you for the good information. Alla has her citizenship interview Feb 1 and I was concerned about her not havbing a green card for while if she has to wait for her oath. we live close to Canada so she goes there often, this was helpful.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-01-14 20:20:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	misdemeanor drug charges	The highest form of ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about. ignorance MEANS a lack of knowledge. It is the ONLY form of ignorance, which could be argued to be the highest form...or the lowest form. Your choice. Sort of a redundant statement though. USCIS takes a dim view of drug charges.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-02-26 20:24:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	N-400 Dilemma and RFE Issues!	If they refuse you, you just sit tight and wait another couple of years and file again on your own after you've had your green card for five years. This is true. Worst case actually. How can YOU file "married filing separate" and your wife file "married filing jointly" Did you both amend your returns? You have done all that you can, you cannot change the past so go with what you have and hope for the best. No, no one here can tell you what USCIS will decide. Edited by Gary and Alla, 18 February 2012 - 06:48 AM.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-02-18 06:46:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	IRS transcripts	I got a Yellow Letter today from the USCIS Asking me for an ORIGINAL INTERNAL REVENUE Service, Form 1722 listing tax information for the past three years or copies of the income tax form I filed.. I sent the copies with the N400.. why are they asking for this again? Standard procedure. Form letter. Bring the orignals AND another copy. They may or may not ask for them. As far as transcripts, if you have a fax machine (or access to one such as a Kinko's) then just call them while you are at the fax machine and they will fax them to you instantly. Otherwise you should get them in the mail within a few days.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-02-18 06:29:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	What happens if I lose my green card right before oath ceremony?	Anybody knows? Thanks!! Postpone the oath ceremony and file for a new green card.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-02-15 05:38:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	What happens if I lose my green card right before oath ceremony?	The other one is what happens if an extraterrestrial space ship hovers above the White House. Louis Farrakhan is visiting when that happens.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-02-15 20:50:00
US Citizenship General Discussion	collation with expired car insurance - ramifications for Citizenship	I was letting “Brother Hesekie” know what I was planning to here, out of respect, and only because he gave me some input. I am not asking for anyone’s permission here and I not trying to condom anything. I am going to ask for this because, this is my case, and my family is near the poverty line; I have the tax transcripts to prove this. If the judge thinks I should man up – like you point out I will - but I am not going to stop from given him this information. It’s up to him or she to dice whatever she sees fit me. I think you are committing lapses in judgement here. Only because you think I am guilty or whatever that does not mean I should to omit evidence. I only want the judge to see the whole picture here. Receiving a hardship waiver of a fine does not relieve you of the conviction or the ramifications of it, you just do not pay the fine. You will still need to submit the papers for this with your application, you will still have problems with insurance in the future once you are convicted. Need the SR-22 or whatever the state law requires. It IS your fault. The incidents leading to the accid3ent are not your fault, hitting the guy in front of you that stopped for cause and had control of his car IS your fault. You did not have insurance at the time of the accident, they particular reason why you did not is not an issue. Edited by Gary and Alla, 14 February 2012 - 05:13 PM.	Gary and Alla	Male	Ukraine	2012-02-14 17:12:00