Immigration Forum / USA / May 2005

I married a US citizen and filed I485 at April, 2005.
I went to Local INS and applied the emergence Advance Parole at 5/25,
but they rejected my application as they only approved A/P to someone if
your close relative who was dead or sick in hosiptal with supporting

My USC is changing her surname to mine after we're married.Will this
hinder us opening joint bank accounts,getting credit etc because of her
not having her maiden name?.When they run credit checks,will her maiden
name credit rating show up?.Lastly,i have my name on the house deeds ...

Just curious.  We're in Los Angeles, our lawyer filed everything for
AOS two months ago, all the checks we wrote for UCSIS cleared about 1
month ago.
Need to get back to England to visit family, it's been difficulty being

I am thinking of taking US Citizenship and goto India to do
business/job in India, Basically I am looking for US passport which had
very high value, togo to any country for Business purpose, in this case
do I have to maintain my residency in US, I am thinking of selling my

I'm currently F1 student in the US. I was J1 intern until September
2004, applied for change of status from j1 to f1 in september 2004,
since my j1 visa and status expired in september 2004, and waited for
answer from the ins from september 2004 to december 2004. since it took

I have received approval for the removal of the conditional basis of my
permanent resident status. The letter states that I must make my
appointment through uscis.gov I have been trying for over a month but I
keep getting the same message... there are no appointments available at

My dear friend is loosing his drivers license because under new laws
the Dept. of Motor Vehicles is requiring a social security number.
The MAIN question:
Does anyone know if there is a way of keeping the license?

My wife and I each applied for 2006.  Seems a few Aussies on the group have
already been notified.  I'm guessing this means we've missed out this year.
However, I wondered if anyone knows whether they send out the notifications
all at once, for a given region, or stagger them ...

Approached some Business to get partnership, they are asking whether I
am US Citizen or not, why?, I didn't understand why he was asking.

My Cousion (Citizen of India) in presently studying in CANADA. He is 27
yrs of age. His parents are in US and had applied for his immigration
some years back (He is their adopted Son).
His parents are in CA and often go to see him. I live in New york and

Help! How do I correct the mistakes? I am filling out everything by
hand, since the pdf I downloaded from the USCIS website isn't editable.
I am getting tired of repriting and starting from scratch on errors,
and we are getting close to finalising this when I found some errors...

Friend of mine, came into the US a couple of years back for 80 days
legally on the visa waiver. She then went up to Canada for ten days and
came back into the US.
They gave her a really hard time at the border (at the time she was

One more question. While I am going thru the N-400 or DV-2006 process,
if I change my residence and mailing address(same state just another
town 20mins away, still same service center), how do I notify INS or
KCC? Would an address change be problematic, such as extra delays during

I have an appointment to get my F-1 visa renewed in a few days, and was
making a checklist of things I need to put together. I was so focused on
gathering evidence of sufficient ties to home country that I totally
forgot about "Evidence of your intention to leave the USA after a

My friend came here 2 years ago on a visa waiver that he filled out on
the plane he went back to the UK and then came back on another visa
waiver a little over a month ago....he was suppose to stay for 90 days
but had a family emergecy and left early....he would like to return to