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*Absences longer than one year

How would anybody torment themselves to live in such harsh conditions, is beyond my understanding. There's a joke that I know that says something like this: " Summer in Canada begins on the 21st of July. It ends on the 22nd of July." Lots of areas in the US have equally harsh winters (Midwest...

Didn't realize I had it posted the whole number. Changed it now. Anyway, my CN was for 2014.

You have to register for the Selective Service, if you are under 26. It's very easy, you complete a form that has to be sent by post-mail, or online. Instructions are at this link: https://www.sss.gov/ This is a form that you file with the IRS(Internal Revenue Service) that determines how...

Ideally you would not want to put all your life savings at stake, when immigrating, just saying. Especially if those get you covered for the first 3 months only.

Basically, being selected in the Diversity Visa is simply being offered a chance to apply for an Immigrant Visa. That's it! You have to go through a similar process that other IV visas applicants go through, like sending Immigration forms, gathering documents, passing a medical and an interview...

So, arriving to the US on a one-way ticket, which the CBP officer can see on the computer, is preferred, cause it's more likely to make the officer believe that you plan on settling for good, and not just coming for a short visit? Also, isn't like a warning that you're given, at CBP admission...

The response you got doesn't mean the email address doesn't work. But the contrary. It's informative and if you include the required information in your Case Inquiry, you will get a response for your situation.

Bad posture, not looking straight at the camera, hair covering parts of the face, head proportions relative to photo dimension, photo being overexposed/underexposed... Check this link: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/general/photos/photo-page.html, for examples

Keep in mind that the photo verification tool only checks for technical specs, as far as I'm aware. It does not check for composition, shadows... If you put a dog's photo with the correct technical specs, it will pass the verification. So one can successfully complete the application for the...

It's not mandatory that you pay it before entering the US, but it is recommended to do so, if you wanna leave in two months with the GC in your hand. You should have enough time (2 months), but it's not a certainty that the card will arrive until November.

Yeah, you needed to go to a 'Card Center' location, and not all SSA offices are Card centers. In NYC, for example there are 4 Card center locations. See here for reference: http://www.nyc.gov/html/id/html/how/sscard_location.shtml Important Information for Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx and...

This story was recently featured on This American Life Radio Show on NPR: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/560/abdi-and-the-golden-ticket

Right. Sorry, I expressed myself wrong.What I'm trying to say: if I'm to get a replacement card, is it so my name on it fully matches the name on SSn?

To what purpose? Cause I prefer it without the hyphen. Actually the only issue is the fact that my GC has a middle name (initial), whilist my SSN has my middle name alongside first name (as a compound first name, no hyphen).