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  2. Owning property after citizenship

    in Citizenship Process

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    My wife will probably pass her citizenship test this week. I don't know at what point she no longer is a Chinese citizen. Her Chinese passport expires next Jan.

     

    She still owns a home in Ningbo but has been told once she becomes a US citizen she will not be able to claim it since she will have no identification.

     

    Anybody have any experience with this?

  3. Naturalization of a child

    in Citizenship Process

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    Hi all

     

    Long time since I visited - life is busy!

     

    We are trying to apply for citizenship for my wife and step daughter. I'm quite confused reading the USCIS guide.

     

    By the time my wife gets citizenship my step-daughter will be 17. Will she be able to just get a passport or will she need to file N-600?

     

    The forms don't indicate that we need supporting documents, but some posts here do - can you tell me which is correct?

     

    thanks

  8. Questions on Citizenship

    in Citizenship Process

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    I think the problem is

     

    Her parents have no assets and essentially no income (rent from Jenny's home in China provides most of their income)

     

    The odds to her seem almost nil that they could get a tourist visa.

     

    If she is a USC is it more or less likely that she could get her parents over for a visit.

     

    Her parents are pretty adament that they do not want to live here, so it is not about getting an I130.

  9. Questions on Citizenship

    in Citizenship Process

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    Hi All

     

    I have several questions that maybe some can answer. My wife is considering becoming a citizen. I think that the reason is so that she can get her parents over here for a visit.

     

    Is there really a better chance for her parents to get a tourist visa if she is a a USC?

     

    How long does this process take? She would like them to come next summer, but I suspect that like most immigration applications it will take months to get citizenship and then months for her parents to get a visa.

     

    any other thoughts about this?

     

    thanks

  12. She can leave me now

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

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    Finally got her 10 year GC today. We filed at VCS in Oct. Jenny had her biometrics in Jan but USCIS missed her daughter on the application. After numerous phone calls got that straigtened out. My step daughter had her biometrics 2 weeks ago and we got GC pretty quick after that.

     

    No, she's not going to leave me....yet :ok:

  16. I-751 Hell

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

    Posted

    I was really impressed with VSC when we sent our 129 forms in, but they have been quite incompetent with the 751. It took them 6 months to add my step daughter to the application after they clerk failed to see her name on the application. Every time I called they gave me a standard response out of some manual they were reading. I finally learned that I had to ask for an "officer" to speak with who could access my case directly. Six calls later they finally got it corrected.

  17. RFE'd

    in AOS & Immigration Challenges

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    The affidavits required are to be from two people who have known the applicant since the green card was issued. They can be family members, or not. They must include full name and address, place and date of birth, and contact information of the person writing the affidavit. It should also include information about how they met, extent of the relationship with this person, how often you see them, normal married couple, and like Trigg said, blah blah blah.

     

     

    Yep, it was all pretty clear exactly as stated above. Must have missed it

  18. Never marry a Chinese woman

    in Notable Posts

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    Most of your pain... :) Will come from laopo's little TALKS with her friends... :huh:

     

     

    Lao Po will trust and uninformed Chinese woman rather than her informed American husband about the whole process from Visa to GC to citizenship. Don't be frustrated guys, just accept it. :)

     

     

    OMG, do I have a lot to learn.....

     

    This is so true. Our marriage became quite blissful once she stopped reading 001.

     

    And contrary to Don's wife, Jenny forgets every wrong I have done very quickly and never brings it up again.

  22. Good Feng Shui & Bad Feng Shui

    in Chinese History & Philosophy

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    Jenny says she doesn't believe in Feng Shui but has an absolute must that our bed must face North-south. We've looked at buying several houses that are not lined up either N-S or E-W and she spends hours trying to figure out how to lay out the bed in a N-S orientation.

     

    She claims she sleeps better facing N-S but had constant insomnia when she lived in China even though she slept N-S. Here she sleeps great. Can't seem to convince her it has to do with who she is sleeping with not the direction that matters. :unsure:

  23. China imposes curbs on adoptions

    in The Middle Kingdom - 中国

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    I've adopted children internationally before (from Russia). There's a lot of money chasing few infant. The demand for Chinese babies is quite high (we all know how beautiful Asians are :rolleyes: ) I think China is just trying to stem the flow due to a reduced supply of children. With the laws of supply and demand at work, low supply is making people spend in crazy and sometimes illegal ways to get an infant. You may argue about the criteria, but the intent probably is in the right direction to prevent bribes from going up

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