This probably isn't very interesting to anyone, but USCIS has given us the green light for the "final 90", meaning that in 90 days we can apply for Sakha to take the US Citizenship test and become a full-fledged, tax-paying United States citizen. In early December we can send in the "N-400" paperwork, a 3-inch high stack.
As soon as she has her biometrics done (again), does the naturalization interview and passes the citizenship test she'll be a US citizen. Then we apply for a US passport for her, and we're *done*.
She'll be changing her name at that time, taking my last name and using my first name for her (new) middle name. She jokes that her family was too poor to afford a middle name when she was born, so she's going to steal, err, I mean "borrow" mine.
The citizenship test is hard...I never would have passed it. If you want to see what the test is like you can see it here:
[a href="http://discoverseattle.net/citizenship/"]US Citizenship Test (with answers)[/a]
In the N-400 application she has to swear, among other things, that between "March 23, 1933 and May 8th, 1945" she did not "work in any way (directly or indirectly) with:
- The Nazi government of Germany,
- Any German, Nazi, or S.S. Military unit, paramilitary unit, self-defense unit, vigilante unit, citizen unit, police unit, government agency or office, extermination camp, concentration camp, prisoner of war camp, prison, labor camp, or transit camp"
So I guess we have to hide her Waffen SS uniform and make sure she doesn't wear her Hitler Youth Knife to the interview, lol. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif)
(She wasn't even born until 1978, so any problems related to affiliating with Nazis shouldn't be a problem. I explained to her a little bit about who Hitler was and what the Nazis were...she knows they were like Pol Pot and that's enough for her. She knows a lot about Pol Pot. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Sad/11.gif) )
That's awesome news, Teh Borken! Good luck and all the best for you and Sakha. :)
Great news TB.. I was wondering how things worked out for you.