lhp
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The Mrs had her interview and the CPC membership did not keep her from getting approved for citizenship. So at least in our case being 10+ years removed from membership “worked” for getting citizenship. The interviewer asked how long she was a member, if she held any positions/titles in the party, and if she stayed involved after she stopped paying dues.
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What does a Chinese Citizen give up in becoming a US citizen?
lhp replied to homerjay1011's topic in Citizenship Process
Our concern is how my wife would inherit assets from her parents one day once she has US citizenship and doesn’t have a houkou. She feels it’s risky to enter w a US passport and then pull out a hukou to do land sales or whatever and then try to get a bunch of cash out of the country. Have any members been in that situation? -
Our interview is start of December, I’ll update this thread with results!
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Thanks Randy. My wife has a number of friends who have included a few years worth of tax returns when applying, but for the life of me I can’t figure out why. I can’t find mention of doing so anywhere…any idea why they might have done that?
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Hey all. For background, we had a hell of a time getting my wife’s IR-1 visa from 2013-2014. Because of CPC membership she spent 16 months in AP. Regardless, after 7+ years in the U.S. (and 10+ years since last paying Party dues) we are applying for her U.S. citizenship. Over the past years I’d seen threads here about folks getting rejected because of the ten year rule, so we decided to wait until ten years had passed. We’ve started on the N-400 and I’m planning for us to copy and paste from her CPC statement we prepared for AP way back when. She’ll also add a note that this was previously disclosed when applying for her IR1 and highlight that more than ten years have passed since any involvement or passing any dues. Any suggestions on other things we should add? Or is the struggle mostly with the USCIS officer you eventually met? What’s the opinion on whether or not it’s worth getting a lawyer?
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Sorry to hear this happened to @shine. Have you tried again after the 10 years passed? We are about to start citizenship paperwork - we've been waiting for ten years of dues paying to pass and that's now behind us. Going to have to read up on the old threads to see how to handle this in the N-400 application (which now can be done all online! Wow!). Edit: tagged the wrong user.
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Hi everyone, long time no see. The Mrs and I (now with two sons) have been in the states almost seven years now. We are hoping to get my mother in law over to lend a hand, but are also hoping to have her avoid the 14 day quarantine in another country. Biden has removed the quarantine requirement as of November, but my MIL doesn’t have a COVID vaccine that’s approved by the WHO so at that point she won’t be able to enter at all until her vax gets ok’d…so we (or at least I) are looking to get her over asap. we’ve heard from some Chinese friends that they were able to get the quarantined waived by applying for a National Interest Exemption. Anyone here applied for one for a SO or in-law?
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It's a craps shoot. Here in Washington the mass vax sites outside of Seattle seem to regularly come up with wide availability. It's just a huge pain to go to all the different websites and refresh to see if anything's opened up. I was able to get my 85 year old father an appointment at the beginning of February by spending most of a week refreshing various appointment pages. Now in mid-March it seems like there are many more spots coming available. My wife's 8 months pregnant and has decided to get the shot – we looked last night and got an appt for Tuesday morning. Good luck and stay safe. We're almost to the tipping point!
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Congratulations! I'm glad to hear the CCP processing time is now greatly reduced!
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When we DCF'd we took a stack of photos with a rubber band around them. The CO flipped through them, took some out, and gave us the rest back. They were all returned to us when we finally got the visa.
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Congratulations!
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Final, final post in this thread: Green Card arrived yesterday, two months and four days after entry. Not bad!
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We're thinking about a trip to Montreal in April. I know that Chinese citizens need a Canada visa unless they have a green card. My wife's green card hasn't come in the mail yet, and we don't know if it'll get here before April. However, she does have her stamped IR-1 visa in her passport, which is supposed to act as a green card until the gc arrives. Do any of you know if she can travel to Canada on the IR-1? I would hate to be at the Quebec airport and have a border control person say the IR-1 isn't acceptable.
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Thanks for the replies. Sorry I haven't been back sooner, I've started work too and have been 100% busy. It looks like she's going to get hired on at the same school district I work in. Her being bilingual, having an MA, and having a teacher's certificate (even though she's never taught) all were big helps...but like with most jobs it seemed that the biggest help was that when I went to sign my own contract I was able to mention her to HR so they kept an eye out for her application. The same week she got the interview with my district she had an interview for a part-time gig working with immigrants and refugees. Our thought was the same as above, to just take little jobs to build up US work experience and see how she likes working in different environments. We've still got some hurdles to get over (getting her transcripts verified...what a racket!), but things are looking up and she's feeling quite good
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Thanks for the link to the Work tag, I figured there was one out there but just didn't see it. The job market here is strong but also competitive. My wife's been applying to jobs that she's overqualified for and has been disappointed to not get any interviews. I think that going out and talking to people ("networking") may be the best bet…I'm just not sure where to start since she's not interested in working in my field.