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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.
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We've been back in the US about a month now, and the transition is going about as well as we could expect. The one difficulty is that my wife hasn't found a job yet. She's feeling pretty stressed about that, even though we both know that it can take a little while to find something, especially right after moving to a foreign country. She's got good work experience (worked at a Fortune 500 company company and a highly regarded education joint venture in China) and a master's degree, so I'm sure she'll eventually find something she likes here. I wanted to ask what your better half found most helpful for finding a job? What did you do to help her?
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I'll post all other updates in new threads, but did want to update here: We were able to get her SSN issued on Dec 29 (five days after entry), but we weren't able to get a printout from the SSA with the number, like I'd read other members had been able to do. We were told that since August 2014 this is no longer allowed because of fraud. We had to wait for the SSN card to be sent to us, which took exactly one week. Randy's right that she wasn't yet in the system, but the nice worker at the office was able to get that taken care of. I posted a little more about it in my name change thread.
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Name change after entering the US on IR1 visa
lhp replied to lhp's topic in AOS & Immigration Challenges
We went ahead with my wife's name change after entry on an IR-1 visa. Here's how we did it. Got a Social Security Card. We went to the SSA office to expedite this process. It only took a week for the card to be printed and mailed to us, which I thought was pretty good. We needed the SSN/card in order to do the name change and get her a driver's license. All we took with us was her passport. Went to the County Courthouse to file paperwork. In our state (Washington) it was enough to have my wife's passport (with visa) and Social Security card. We kept the card attached to the mailing sheet it came one. Since the mailing sheet has her name and address on it, this served as proof of residence. The fee was $170, plus $5 for another copy of the order. When we went in I was worried that it'd take a while to actually get a date to go before the judge, but it turns out that if you file in the morning they can book you for the afternoon. Went before the judge. This would have take about five minutes (including time waiting for other name change cases to go first), but the clerk forgot to bring in the name change paperwork so we had to sit through a small claims case. The judge called up my wife, swore her in, asked if all the information on the application was truthful, and then said "I am approving your name change. Congratulations and good luck." And that was that. Went back to the SSA to report the name change. Immediately after getting out of court we walked to the SSA offices and updated her information with them.The green card hasn't arrived. Once it doesn't we'll file the I-90 and get the name changed on it, too. So in the space of a week and a half my wife had to go to the SSA twice and the County Courthouse twice. Next up are adventures at the DMV. (The wait at the DMV to get her Instruction Permit was 45 minutes.) Welcome to America! -
We entered on the 24th. POE in Seattle was very friendly, and since our flight got in early in the morning there were no immigration cases in front of us. It took no more than thirty minutes to go through passport control and immigration. Pretty good! There was no problem changing incorrect info on the Immigrant Data Summary sheet. We had written out corrections ahead of time and gave them to the officer. It was a great experience. This morning we're going to the SSA office to get my wife's SSN early. Hoping for a similarly fast and positive experience there!
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Congratulations! It's great to hear when the process is fast and easy. Citic called my wife when the passport arrived, and an email came a day later.
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Passport (with visa) arrived at the bank this morning. Turns out our status went from Issued to AP to Issued because the first visa they printed for her was CR1. That visa was cancelled (the stamp says "Cancelled Without Prejudice"), and an IR1 visa was stuck on the next page. Issue date was the 5th, and we weren't able to track it in the CG Stanley system until the day before yesterday. The "Immigrant Data Summary" sheet in the package has some incorrect information on it, so I'll be emailing GZ about it. Hopefully that won't be a big deal. I double-checked it against the forms we filled out, and the incorrect info isn't anything we submitted.
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And now the status has gone back to Administrative Processing!!!
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Finally, the update we've been waiting for: Pretty quick visa issuance, just two days after the interview. I guess the figured we've waited long enough. Just for fun, here's a picture of the crowd outside the Consulate on Tuesday. Folks were pretty upset, apparently there had been a snafu with tourist visa interviews in the morning, and these folks hadn't been able to go in as scheduled. The guards were nice about letting my wife go in for her appointment, she didn't have to wait in the crowd.
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Thanks, everybody. It's a huge relief. I've really appreciated all the support here, thanks for listening!