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It was necessary to apply for naturalization for you. You did not automatically get citizenship. During that period of time, the only way an adopted child could automatically get citizenship was if both parents naturalized after the child was adopted and immigrated. Your parents were both...

And more to the point, the application is needed for the children to become US citizens, i.e. it is an application for naturalization. The children do not automatically become citizens without going through the process. Why are you mentioning this, as CCA is not relevant to your case? All this...

The child was required to be in the custody of the parent to naturalize under this provision.

I am not sure about whether the forms used may have changed in the 90s. If it was approved, he should have gotten a Certificate of Citizenship. Otherwise, how can he assume you got US citizenship?

Since you were adopted between 1978 and 2001, turned 18 before 2001, and your adoptive parents were already US citizens at the time you were adopted, I believe the only way for you to become a US citizen through your parents is for your parent to have applied for naturalization for you as a...

It's from the fact that the officers have the power to waive the failure to have an appropriate document for entry under 8 CFR 211.1(b)(3). For example, US consulates in Canada tell green card holders who lost their green card in Canada to go to the border and seek a waiver. Under 8 CFR...

She would need to get a visa to Mexico or Canada on her foreign passport (unless the foreign passport is visa-exempt to Canada or Mexico). But the idea is that it bypasses the issue of the airline not boarding her, and allows her to seek entry directly at the port of entry. And at the port of...

1. She can travel back to the US on her I-551 stamp before it expires 2. She can file I-131A at a US consulate (with a $575 fee) before she's been out for 1 year, to get a boarding foil, and travel back on that 3. She can travel to Canada or Mexico somehow, and enter the US by land

For children born after 1986, the requirement is a cumulative total of 5 years of physical presence in the US (in any status, including before naturalization, and even including any illegal stay) before the child's birth, including 2 years after turning 14. There is no "10 years". It generally...

I believe you can work on the 540-day automatic extension of work authorization now

When you go to Canada for less than 30 days, you may have been re-admitted on Automatic Revalidation, and might not have gotten a new I-94.

Your pending Extension of Stay was automatically abandoned when you left the US (since your stay ended, so there was nothing to "extend" anymore). You were admitted for a new stay when you re-entered the US on your visa.

When you file the I-131 for a Re-entry Permit, you must be physically in the US, so your "current physical address" then should be a US address.

A green card is not required for her to do I-9. She can also use her unrestricted Social Security card (a List C document) plus her state driver's license (a List B document) for the I-9. It is completely the employee's choice which set of acceptable documents to present for the I-9. It is...

$3 of assets can substitute for every $1 of missing income on the I-864

You've been watching too many movies.

No, I-765 denial has no effect on I-485

You do not have to wait until I-130 approval. You have to wait until a month when the date on the USCIS's AOS filing charts (click on "USCIS <month> Adjustment of Status Filing Charts") for F2A is after the priority date (i.e. the date the I-130 was filed) before she can file I-485.

Someone who entered on K1 or K2 cannot do Adjustment of Status through anyone except the US citizen who petitioned the K1. See 7 USCIS-PM B.7(F). The legal basis of this is INA 245(d). So the I-485 through your husband was correctly denied; you shouldn't have filed it in the first place. There...

If he is making a new entry now, he has one year to apply for asylum from this entry.