Fiancée Visa to US citizen
May 30, 2009 by Thai Traveler
Filed under My Story
October of 2005 Ning came back to the USA with me. She had her fiancée visa and was able to come in the US. We had 90 days to get married before her visa expired.
We were married in December here, and then needed to apply for Ning’s first green card. We used an agency that specialized in immigration to the US to fill out our forms. We also had to have a few thing translated into English from Thai. This helped out the most having this done locally through them.
Ning’s first green card was good for only two years. After that we had to do a new application for her 10-year green card. We went through the same agency we had used earlier for the 2-year card.
Once Ning held a green card for 3 years, she was eligible to become a US citizen. At the time we did her application you can apply 3 months before the 3 years are up. We filled out her application our selves this time.
Ning with her flowers and new computer
Once filed, we got a notice to go and get Ning’s fingerprints done. They gave her material to study for her citizenship test that the time of her finger prints. Then in just over a month Ning had to go take her test. On May 29 2009 Ning passed her test. We are now waiting to get the notice to go to take the oath to be sworn in for her citizenship. They said it will be around 9 weeks to get the notice, but most people that we know that did this told us it will be much less time than that.
Well it was just 6 days after Ning’s test that we received the letter telling us to be at the courthouse to be sworn in. The day of the ceremony we had to be there at 10:30. There was 10 people total taking their oath to be US citizens. Anything went very smooth and the court even had a little rception after wards.
Ning with her citizen papers
It has been our experience thru this process from Fiancée Visa to US Citizenship, if you give the US government everything they ask for, paper wise, and just wait you will have no problems at all. Every one we had dealings with at the Federal Building was very helpful. Over all it was a very easy process to go through.
