This Wednesday is our appointment with our local USCIS (U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services) office. Assuming all goes well, Elijah and Josephine should become U.S. Citizens on that day! Our paperwork packets are completed and ready to go with us to our appointment at 8:30 a.m.
We are praying for no issues with our childrens’ non-existent I-94 cards – we were not given them in Florida in January as we should have been. I emailed our local immigration officer, and he indicated that he would research what we should do, but to bring whatever documentation we were given to our appointment. He never got back to us regarding the results of his research, so I’m praying that they do not charge us another fee for another form. This is really our only concern with the appointments.
We do have some questions about how they’ll process things, as we’ve heard from a few other families who’ve already had their appointments. One family received their daughter’s certificate of citizenship that day. Another family had their daughter’s citizenship certificate mailed to her within a week or two after her appointment. A third family lives in a larger state, and their local USCIS office doesn’t process the certificates, so they had to be sent out to a different USCIS in their state to be completed, then they were told they’ll have to come back for another appointment to receive the certificates. I did inquire if our USCIS office processes the certificates on-site, but did not receive a response, so we await the appointment with great hope and anticipation that we’ll have two new U.S. Citizens in our arms when we leave!
I’ll try to post more Wednesday afternoon, to let you know how things went, but please join us in praying that things go smoothly on Wednesday.
2 comments:
Praying for no hassles! Congratulations!
We're going to have to push the system to the end. We can't come up with the money to do it now, so it most likely will cost us more later, but c'est la vie.
oh, what excitement... and cause for prayer :)
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