Recent content by Guineapig

Thanks for the detailed response. Pretty much what I expected it to be. I was a little surprised at my early residency date but the reason I didn't question the date at the time was because it had taken me over 1100 days to get my GC from initial application. I was under the mistaken...

My I-140 application for my green card was approved May 1 1997. My green card, when it arrived 5 years later(!) in May 2000, but that's another story, has printed on it that my residency date was: February 10 1997 I assumed (incorrectly) that my residency was somehow back dated to the...

An English friend of mine, here in the U.S. illegally, was questioned by the police for a minor traffic problem (his car rolled from his driveway into his street) - somehow it came out in the discussion that he was an illegal immigrant. Border Patrol were called, he was arrested and he's now in...

I sent the application to the Laguna Niguel center - but my notice to appear stated I had to go to the Santa Ana office. (Its at Civic Center Plaza) I'm not even sure if the LN office takes visitors, or if it's just a processing center. For example - when I lived in Florida, all my...

Interview Process (Santa Ana) My appointment was for 8:05 am Arrived at 7:30, 200 people in line, after 20 mins of waiting I asked if appointments had to line up. I was directed to a MUCH smaller line :) After a stringent security check (DONT TAKE ANY CAMERAS or CAMERAPHONES, or anything...

Are you saying there's ANOTHER FBI check after the one I did less than three months ago??! Wow! I thought after I got the GC process taken care of, the idiocy of the procedure would lighten up some. I suppose it is conceivably possible possible, than between October and January I've...

My Timeline: Perm Res date: 02/10/1997 Submitted Application for Citizenship : Aug 27 '03 Received Notification on Sept 08 '03 FBI Check taken/passed : Oct 21 '03 Request to appear for interview received : Nov 10 '03 Interview Date : Jan 20 '04 Oath Date: ??? Passport Date: ...

I have my interview on Jan 20th 2004 (4 days from now) I am planning a trip to Indonesia (vacation in April) and want to make sure I can travel on my new passport. Does someone know how quickly I will get my oath ceremony here in Southern California and also how quickly it takes for a...

Same concern! Just to confirm: This is the shortest INS package I've yet to complete: Cover sheet (not needed, but its a list of contents) Cashiers check for $310 N-400 completed Photocopy front/back Greencard Status Info letter from Selective Service ( i was here when I was 26 and...

..well I guess it'll be just as tough for them to prove me wrong as it is for me to prove I'm right... I should be able to list 80% of them thanks for the tips...

hmmm... what about trips 24-72 hours? Thats almost all my weekends away. Fridays to Sundays....

I live near the Mexican border and often head down to Baja for camping trips. Crossing the border entails at most a glance at a drivers license and a few questions, but that's about it. Certainly nothing that would hook into the INS computer system. So -when applying for citizenship it asks...

You can wait 5 years before applying. I was in a similar situation - I was working for a company and waited 3 years for a GC to show up - I quit and joined a company B I was consulting for (legally through company A) about 4 months later. It\'s quite easy for me to argue with the INS that I...