our case status update - no joy

[Simoni]

Yep, one year maximum, and they always based eligibility on her EAD setting the expiration date one day prior to that. For renewals tey would give her a rather nondescript white slip of paper to use as her D/L until the real one was mailed 4 weeks later - can't just walk out with it like you and I.

Yeah, Marina also got the same white slip of paper.  She was REALLY happy to get the real one in the mail a month later.  That meant her ID was now just like everyone else's.  Sure makes getting a glass of wine, and flying, easier 

[jj]

Congrats to you Jet and Liliya.   It is frustrating watching people filing after you go zipping by to AOS within months rather than years.   It is especially not fair to the spouse from FSU to be in limbo for all that time, and have to go thru the emotional stress due to incompetence from bureaucratic bungling.  .  Now you can move on.

 

[Ronnie]

And congrats to you JJ for getting your expedited interview and avoiding a potential denial due to age out.

[Ooooops]

Tax law says if you spend at least 181 days in the US you are a legal permanent Resident for tax purposes - GreenCard holder or not.

And if you are a US citizen you pay Uncle Sam no matter how long you stay outside of US.   

[Ronnie]

And if you are a US citizen you pay Uncle Sam no matter how long you stay outside of US.   

Well not exactly, the first 86k or so is excluded.

[Ooooops]

Well not exactly, the first 86k or so is excluded.

And our dear President wanted to put a stop to that!   Good thing that it didn't happened, otherwise the perks of being an expat would get slimmer.   

[Bruce]

Great to hear and continued good luck!  I still think it all had to do with the exit of Gonzalez and Mukasey comming on board!

[Ronnie]

Great to hear and continued good luck!  I still think it all had to do with the exit of Gonzalez and Mukasey comming on board!

About that same time, William Ramos, Chief of Adjudications in the San Francisco office, where my stepson was denied, was replaced.

[Son of Clyde]

Jim,
   Congrats and here's wishing you and yours well.
   Wondering what happens when the 10 yrs. is up. Does it go another 10 after that? Do the wives more often than not apply for citizenship? We don't have any 10 yr. vets here do we?
    When you applied for this did you pay this new fee of $485+160 for bio or was it under the old fee? I am actually sending ours off tomorrow as the 5th will be the 90 day requiste.


  Hey Clyde, I know you jumped the gun a little. Did they receive your form yet?

Jump the gun? I am not expecting to hear anything until at least March of next year. All the paperwork was submitted back in March of 2008. The USCIS office in Baltimore looks very similiar to the office Jet posted. Maybe it is that government offices all look like they are 80 years old.

[Jet]

The USCIS office in Baltimore looks very similiar to the office Jet posted. Maybe it is that government offices all look like they are 80 years old.

Now that the case has been approved, USCIS has been simply bubbling over with useless information Lil and Kolya received their "Welcome to America letters" the other day with no less than six e-mails to confirm that fact. 



Here's another view of the same bldg.