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What a great outcome. Congratulations to you and your son, Claudia!

Jackolantern, you da man. Your selfless dedication (and also those of others like you) to this forum literally changes lives....

Marusia_GC, you are unnecessarily stressing on an unimportant event that has no bearing on your citizenship. Relax and forget about it all.

Not an issue. My traffic ticket which I paid a fine for and which I mentioned on my N-400 was changed by my interviewer to being a no (to the question of whether I had ever been cited ... I had...

Leave with great faith if you have to. Your OCI is not going to be sent back to India. Once it arrives in Chicago, it will be kept at the consulate until they receive your US passport.

I was in a similar situation and I wrote about it in another thread: Old traffic ticket fine paid but no proof

Hi troyhouse, I looked at your list at the top of the thread and it looks pretty comprehensive. The only additional docs I think I took with me were my actual completed 1040 tax forms for the past...

Absolutely not a problem.

BTW, regarding documents to take to the interview. In my own case, I took every single document I thought could be useful if asked for. I organized everything into a...

Don't bother with those and don't even mention them at the interview.

Oh interesting, good to know. I am going to be renewing a passport for my son but his application is going to require both parents because he is very young.

Is this true? I thought both parents had to sign the DS-11 and provide IDs and ID proofs?

Even if you counted all partial days as being full days out of the US, why are you worried about the total adding up to 163 days? All these trips fit within the guidelines necessary for...

When I did my N400, I went conservative when counting days and included departure and entry dates. So if I went to Canada on Jan 1st and returned on Jan 2nd, I counted that as two days being out of...

1. After you become a USC, you will need to ASAP get your old Indian passport cancelled and a surrender certificate issued by the regional Indian consulate that services your state.
2. You will need...

ludhianvi, I naturalized in Boston a few years back and had the same situation as your wife. I had a traffic ticket from an incident in Atlanta 12 years prior that I had mentioned. So I also got a...

Your son does not need to be registered with FRRO. Children under 16 years are exempt from registration on any visa status. See the Bureau of Immigration FAQ link below:
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Why on earth would you apply for an Indian visa when your daughter already has a lifelong OCI status? Just because her old US passport is expiring, does not invalidate her OCI status. You can travel...

Hi Abe, for minors claiming OCI status, I know that you need the passports of both parents. But since you are an adult applying for OCI through an eligible parent, are you sure you actually need the...

Yeah my place back there is where the parents live but I've nothing in terms of phone or utility bills. I figured to get this done from here so that I have it on hand when I visit the motherland next...

I decided to use the services of NRIInvestIndia because the idiots in the Indian bureaucracy make it very difficult for someone to apply directly on their own:

1. You need a demand draft that is...

Agreed!



This is insulting to monkeys ;) Just a deranged babu says it all!

When clicking on the AO info link for International applicants, in classic babu fashion, they present a long table of completely unfathomable and unexplained options. Am I supposed to choose some...

Has anyone applied for their PAN card from the US and could you detail your experience? I know you can do it directly with the NSDL or the UTIITSL websites or some third party vendors. I thought of...

I would not mention it, period. The Indian govt can barely get their act together with current bureaucratic processes and so there's no way they are going to retroactively review all OCI...

Yup, which is what happened to me. Got employment-based GC but then got married to a USC shortly thereafter. I was able to naturalize after three years of marriage and not have to wait out five years.

Can you submit a notarized statement saying that your wife legally changed her name as part of her naturalization? Surely Travisa/CGI know that this is allowed under US law.