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Anna K
Apr 26, 2025
Hello everyone. I wanted to share the timeline of my complicated I-751 case:
- Sent I-751 jointly in September 2021. - In July 2023, after two years, I received an RFE; at this point, I was still married. After responding to the RFE, my case was transferred to the NBC. “ to speed up process “ - In October 2023, my husband and I separated and I applied for divorce. I also changed my address and notified USCIS, but I didn't inform them about the divorce process starting. - In February 2024 (one month before the divorce was finalized), I notified USCIS about my divorce proceedings and requested that they convert my case to a divorce waiver (I didn’t receive any answer from them). -March 2024 I sent USCIS my finalised divorce decree ( didn’t received any response) - In September 2024, I applied for N-400 under the five-year rule. - In February 2025, I received a letter for my naturalization interview (they didn’t mention anything about my pending I-751). However, I was prepared for both interviews. - In March 2025, I had a double interview for the I-751 and N-400. The interview was easy, and the officer was nice. He asked just one question regarding the I-751: “What was the reason for your divorce?” and the standard six questions about U.S. history. Next day after interview I got update what both my cases was approved . And they sent me letter for Oath Ceremony - in April 2025 attended Oath ceremony and got certificate
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Caroline Novaes
Apr 26, 2025
TRAVELING WITH ADVANCE PAROLE I-131
I would like to share my experience with my most recent travel outside USA. Yesterday I came back from a week trip with my husband (who is a permanent resident) and we arrived at Chicago O’Hare airport around 12:30am. it was my first time traveling with this paper and I knew I had to be taken to secondary scanning. my husband was with me all the time, he didn’t have any problems with his entry being a green card holder. I saw many green card holders there waiting for secondary scanning tho (specially older people). I saw many situations, specially with tourists, where the guards were more restrictive, they took peoples phone, I saw someone leaving with handcuffs in a hospital bed (probably the person got sick or had a bad reaction from being deportated). I girl who had her phone taken was using another’s persons phone (maybe to let her family know she was ok, idk) and the officer yelled at her and took the phone from the other guy. Anyways, it was a very tense and scary experience, even tho nothing happened directly to me. I saw the officer walk around with my papers multiple times, I waited between 3/4 hours and they called me and said I was all good to go, explain to me the stamp on my paper and said that my parole allows multiple entries. my situation is very unusual being married to a green card holder, so my I-130 and I-485 are still pending (my process is different from being married to a citizen so it can take years), but I decided to take the risks once I lost my mother last years and I couldn’t go to her funeral because of this process. Now I have this authorization to travel and it is good to know I can use in case of an emergency. But I am still not sure if it is worth the anxiety and stress just for a vacation.

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Permanent resident filing for a spouse or child under 21

Total Days: 692 days
Case
2023-12-24
Today
I-765
28 Days
I-131
80 Days
I-130
692 Days
I-485
446 Days
National Benefits Center: I-765, I-131, I-485 Vermont Service Center: I-130
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