If you’re adopted internationally into the United States, BY adoption LAWS you’re legally a citizen, but you still have to apply for documentation and if it’s not done by the age of 18 you have to pay over $500 and get a judge to reopen your adoption case.
Even More Fun Fact: No one actually tells adoptive families, this so many find out after they’re 18 when their kid needs to get a passport, wants to apply for financial aid, get certain jobs, vote or some other shit that requires proof of citizenship and now it’s too late because they’re 18 or over.
AND EVEN MORE FUN FACT! You can sometimes even be deported because you can be considered foreign-born, non-citizens!
Oh and they won’t accept adoption papers or a birth certificate as proof.
Do it now! Seriously. Even if you think you are safe. Do it.
Many people are finding that even a birth certificate is not valid proof anymore. Texas birth certificates are notorious. So notorious that I have 3 friends who can’t use them to get passports! Don’t think everything is hunky dory. You must nail down your citizenship.
Plus the cost for your citizenship certificate is almost doubling this fall.
SIGNAL BOOST.
Some Naturalization/Citizenship Certificate tips from me, the person who front-end processes these forms for half the country: the passport people are absolute garbage at sending your Naturalization Certificate back to you. Unfortunately, they also require it for you to get a passport. If you don’t get it back, whine at them about it and they will probably cover the cost of the replacement.
Also! It takes up to 12 months to get a replacement certificate. If you urgently need your Natz Cert to visit your dying relative in another country, the word you want to use is ‘Expedite’. Not ‘ASAP’. Not ‘rush’. Expedite. Write a letter explaining why you need it expedited, if you do. Otherwise the USCIS data-entry grunts (me!) aren’t allowed to throw it into the expedite line and it gets relegated to the Backlog Crypts.
Also! You need to get a new Naturalization Certificate if your name and/or gender legally changes, because a lot of places want your proof of citizenship for things like Social Security and student loans and Medicaid/EBT/welfare benefits and drivers’ licenses.
ALSO ALSO both the N600 ($600) that you use to apply for your Naturalization Certificate in the first place and N565 ($345) that you use to apply for a replacement certificate are eligible for FEE WAIVERS. It’s called an I912. Learn it, love it, use it.
Please for your sake make sure you are using the current version of the form. The most common reason I have to reject an N565 is because someone sent me something that expired in 2013. The current one is seven pages long. Please send the government all seven of them.
hey! since claires filed for bankruptcy and toys r us is closing all it’s stores in the US, make sure to check their online store and your local stores regularly the next few months! there’s going to be blowout sales and probably extreme discounts up to 90%. so any nostalgia / kidcore fans, keep your eyes peeled cause otherwise their stuff will just get thrown out most likely!
historians: well we dont want say this is a love letter because men often expressed affections differently back then, so this person wasn’t gay, they were just friends
the letter in question: hey babe i cant wait for you to raw me tonight. aw man i love you so much dear husband. love having amazing homosexual intercourse with you. i think of your face everytime my wife makes me fuck her, you are my soulmate, i am gay,
There are more ways to kill an orchid than there are to get one to actually stay alive, let alone bloom. They die if they don’t like their soil, or their water, or the amount of sun, or the amount of shade, or the environment in general, sometimes they die if they just plain don’t like you. Orchids are the pickiest plant in the world, and they would rather be dead, then put up with shit they don’t like. For those of the human race that can actually keep an orchid alive, you have been chosen, and you should be proud.
Please show support for Terry while he and his family are being targeted by WME, the multibillion dollar company that protects the man who assaulted him!
He claims they have hacked his computer and are stalking his family, and that if he has an “untimely accident” that we “know where to look.”
Terry is standing up as a survivor and is taking seriously dangerous heat, even the LAPD explicitly told him “these people do not play fair.” Imagine that from the damn LAPD… if they’re calling it foul play then it’s far more serious than people realize.
jsyk as a toys r us employee it really sucks that I’m losing my job more than anything but I desperately want you guys to know that corporate doesn’t- and never did- give a shit about any of their employees.
i work for the CEO’s store in MI and on more than one occasion he’s turned my manager into his own personal shopper for Christmas
all of the TRU employees of closing stores were promised severance pay and a retention bonus and greedy corporate bastards ripped it out of our hands
those of us that were promised transfers were then sent a letter in the mail saying how we would have to reapply and aren’t guaranteed another job- then we found out they’re shutting all the stores down
oh, and the worst part: We didn’t find out from corporate that we were losing our jobs. We found out from the fucking MEDIA.
so yeah, talk about the ‘end of an era’ and all that dumb shit but remember- it is so much more than just that.
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