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Totally forgot about Tarhun - loved it too. Then there was the king of all drinks, the 5-copeck Kvas. :)

Thanks Baikal3! (I still think Baikal (the drink) was the best pop soda! They still make it?)

Not gonna have time (or money) for that - at least not until my (very reasonable price-wise) lawyer agrees to. She so far told me to wait a month or so. Will do the inquiries though. Squeaky clean: barely left the country in the 20 years that I am here, no arrests, ran my small biz, employed...

In all of the 16 months of my N400, the online status never changed from "initial review" - not after the 1st FP, not after the interview nearly 3 months ago. SNAFU, at least in my case - the 1st N400 took 5 years of inexplicable delays. I even got a letter in 2007 telling me I was not a legal...

Thank you - I will follow your advice. Already submitted an inquiry to the Ombudsman, and will send inquiries to my two senators. My congresswoman (Jane Harman) quit her job (I don't blame her) - so I am not sure if I can do a congressional inquiry.

I am 16 months into an N400 app - interview and testing done on 12/22/2010; 2nd FP - yesterday. Is the 2nd FP a sign of impending decision and soon-to-be Oath Ceremony - or not? Should I start raising hell with letters to senators, CIS Ombudsman, etc., or sit quietly for another month or...

Thanks for the info - I am in that boat too (more than 11 months beyond standard processing time on my 2nd N400 app). A firm believer that USCIS is a badly broken, irresponsible, inefficient organization.

Thanks for asking :) Yes: it took hiring a lawyer ($750) to take the I90(d) case to the USCIS Ombudsman, which helped it move forward, and I also filed a standard I90 (lost/stolen), paid the fee. So I had two fingerprinting appointments back-to-back, for each case, and received - if only one -...

Bob, forgive me if your words sound like something spoken by a US CIS officer. "Yes maybe we did the wrong and illegal thing, as we retroactively and wrongfully denied an application, yet you can't do nada because it's been more than 30 days since the denial, which, by the way, we know you...

Even if I never got the denial letter, and they know it, as it returned to them? (I only know of the denial from the NOA of 9/27/07, and then from talking to US CIS Customer Service.)

Thank you. Any way to find out, when did this rule go in effect, and if it was imposed after 11/15/02 (date my N400 application was granted), does it apply retroactively to my case? Thanks again.

Thank you, that helped - except for, how was I supposed to know any of that? :) Would you know, where on US CIS site is this "continued marriage" requirement spelled out? (And for the love of .gov, why is it not mentioned on N400 instructions?) Already contacted a lawyer, who said -...

Correct. All further inquiries re: case status, came back with "your case is pending background checks".

No kidding... My N400(b) timeline is now 6 years: applied 5/2002, interview and "application granted" November 15, 2002, divorced 12/2004, denied 9/27/2007 - because of the requirement that I must be married at the time of naturalization - despite that the application was already granted 5 years...

I don't know! :) I entered the US 17 years ago, in 1990 (and yes, still don't have a correct green card, and still don't have citizenship - and I am legal - can you believe that?) - and a lot has changed in 17 years. I'd recommend getting a consultation with a decent immigration lawyer - let...

Mine got the "A" number wrong, in one digit.

Not sure I understand the question. The case in question is I-90(d). Filed I-90 a year ago, in February 2007, in Los Angeles. I don't know what to tell you. Maybe it was just my bad luck, that none of the immigration officers I talked to, all the way to the top, knew their stuff. The letter...

I-90 option (d) You were right, a US CIS customer service rep just explained that to me. Told me to go to the district office (can't wait to see all those friendly immigration workers again), ask them what to do.

In short: I-90(d) application apparently got lost. What do you do? Option 1: send a copy of the original application, include a letter explaining what happened. That did not work for me: I sent 4 of these copies, each with a cover letter, they all got returned with "application denied, you...

Not what they told me. Are you sure about that?