Hello,
Well its time to visit back home,will be there this week-end,walk memory ;ane and visit relatives.Looking forward to th efast foods too.
Gary Haynes
THANKS for stopping by, I do my best to acknowledge when someone leaves a comment,you do not have to be a member here & everyone is welcome. Ps: This site is monitored but not actively posting on a regular basis. Mostly these are stories & some photos saved from a defunct site known as Verdun Connections which was on MSN Groups initially then on a social network called Multiply.
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Hope you have a WONDERFUL visit! Have a Woodland's pizza and some spruce beer for me will ya? :-) I can't go back home to visit for probably a year or so yet. Darn INS, seems they have more important things than approving a Canadian's "adjustment of status". They have wars to tend with....:-( Luv, Sharon *
Hey Sharon,
Have you spoken with INS about this? I was able to get a temporary green card for my daughters until their renewals come in. So far we have waited 1.5 years so we would be really stuck without the temps, considering my youngest is going to Concordia. INS doesn't offer any more info than they have to, but when you question them, they aren't too bad to deal with.
Alan
Hi Alan. :-) As a matter of fact, I have spoken to INS about this. I was told that the only other alternative that I have is to apply for "advance parole" which would allow me one entry to Canada and back in case of an emergency. They said it might take as long as my "adjustment of status" anyway, tho. Maybe it's because I just recently married a US citizen thru a K-1/fiance visa? Oh God...hearing you say that you've been waiting a year and a half is scaring me now.... Luv, Sharon *
Hi Sharon,
It has been just over a year and a half with no renewal in sight yet. The green cards my wife & I have are permanent, but kids under 14 must have them renewed after their 14th birthday. My eldest daughter renewed hers a few years ago and it took just less than a year to come in. Sincce 9/11 there is much more scrutiny, thus longer processing times. Good luck!
Alan
Boy, things must have changed since 9/11. I, too, married an American in 1999 and I went down to the US under a K1 Visa. I read all that stuff about advanced parole etc and filled out all the forms accordingly. Off we went to the INS in Dallas with our marriage certificate in hand and the forms and fees for advanced parole. They said to me.....why in the world do you want to apply for advanced parole and when I told them I had to have something in case I needed to go back to Canada they said well you just have to be interviewed. We had been told it could take up to 1 and half years for that! She said you were misinformed you can have an interview this morning. Had to wait about an hour and left with an endorsement in my passport which was good for one year which is how long they said it would take for me to get my Permanent Resident Card. I got the card within two months and it was good for two years. When that card was ready to expire we applied to have the condition removed, paid the fee, and now my card is good till 2011. Connie
There are about as many different stories as there are INS employees! Our cards are NP5's, selected from the first "Green Card Lottery" back in '87 and do not expire...phew! We forgot one of my daughters cards on a trip back to Verdun a while ago. She was 16 at the time, but we had tons of other ID with us and decided to just explain to INS that we simply just left it sitting on the table. There was nobody in the place but the agents, but we were kept there for about 1.5 hours while they completely reviewed our entire family. They even had her photo in their system and could easily identify her. They had several forms that I had to complete, and several different people that we had to interview with. The end result was a minor slap on the wrist and warning that they had noted on our files that we were just given a warning and NEXT time they would impose a $175.00 fine and processing time would be lengthy. So, just like American Express, "Don't leave home without it!"
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