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Point taken, but I will say this: it just doesn't matter in practice. I do agree that it's a wise choice to choose the POE country's embassy, but since the OP is entering through Germany and won't be turned away (he can always use the visa waiver for US RTDs), it doesn't matter in practice. The...

There is no "Austrian" visa. There is only one Schengen visa, and this is EU specified. Look at the German Schengen Visa application. The questions are: 1) Which member state will you enter in 2) Which member states will you visit 3) and How long do you intend to stay (and other things.) This...

Yes, nevermind, France isn't. There are several other countries in the E.U. that, however, are visa free to US-RTDs.

You're obtaining a visa for the entire eurozone with the Schengen visa. You should only take with you your RTD document. Note that many, but not all Schengen countries are visa free for US-RTD holders, included AFAIK France. Other countries (ie. Austria) are not visa-free to US-RTD holders and...

Take your pick! Any EU embassy will provide you with the visa. If your spouse is a citizen of an EU member state, the visa is free, otherwise it's €60 - regardless of embassy. You also have to take out travel insurance.

Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, France, and some other EU countries do not require US RTD holders to obtain a visa. Austria (also my country of origin), on the other hand, requires a Schengen visa for entry for all RTD holders (regardless of origin). You're unlikely to be caught crossing from...

You will pass through Austria without a stop at immigration, because there are no longer border controls among Schengen countries. I've passed Austria/Germany by train several times. There are occasional and random ID checks that I've experienced coming through Italy into Austria, but never...

Physical presence after your submitted application will not be counted. I went through this with my N400 application, where a supervisor had to be called. If my dates after the application was accepted were to have been counted, I wouldn't have had enough physical presence -- but this isn't the...

Pretty recently. In July it was phased in. I flew in the latter half of July, and they were no longer handing out I-94s IIRC. More here: http://www.dhs.gov/ynews/releases/pr_1274366942074.shtm And discussion here: http://britishexpats.com/forum/showthread.php?t=669233

No, we didn't get any questions. My parents had lived in the US for many, many years previously, then had been back in their home country for a few years, to later come back to the US with a visitor visa -- and at that point decided to stay and found it to be just easier to stay to get the green...

If the child is 21 years or older...

If you didn't get a receipt, it wasn't received by USCIS, PERIOD. Stop waiting, start acting and resend your application. If your lawyer decided to let you wait 4 months without actually receiving a receipt, you need to find a different lawyer. This is a bad joke.

Well, you don't "have" to anything. This is purely a suggestion. The point is showing there that was no intent to immigrate via a visitors visa. How one does that comes in many flavors. If it was a easy to say, 'stay at least 90 days, then all is good' -- this is an oversimplification. Many...

there is no such thing as a EU passport. if your country is a member of the EU, for all practical purposes you can live and work anywhere within the EU with your valid passport.

No problem. Here's a quick repost that I posted on another thread: "Both of my parents had their interview in L.A. today, and everything went very well. IO was extremely courteous and friendly, and just went though the paperwork again, step-by-step. My mom's fingerprints turned out to be...

That parents receive GC without interview is really no longer true. If you read back the past year, there's hardly a case of a parent receiving GC without also receiving an interview. You shouldn't be worried about that. Someone just recently posted up a detailed writeup of his parents interview...

Both of my parents had their interview in L.A. today, and everything went very well. IO was extremely courteous and friendly, and just went though the paperwork again, step-by-step. My mom's fingerprints turned out to be unreadable even after her second fingerprinting, so we had to dash out and...

Both of my parents had their interview in L.A. today, and everything went very well. IO was extremely courteous and friendly, and just went though the paperwork again, step-by-step. My mom's fingerprints turned out to be unreadable even after her second fingerprinting, so we had to dash out and...

Congrats to your parents and thanks for sharing! I'm getting ready for my parents interview next week.

Airlines are required to hand over passenger flight manifests, that's the main source of USCIS data. That said, USCIS does not have perfect entry and exit records of every green card holder and there are several situations in land POEs (ie. pedestrian via Mexico) where exit might not be properly...