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Immigrant visas and other USCIS services for non-American family members

lucy Citizenship 19 July 2018
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Need extra passport pages? Please read...

Citizenship 19 July 2018

Is Your U.S. Passport Full of Stamps? You need a new passport.

Prior to 31 December 2015, it was possible to add more pages to your passport, if it was still valid. This is no longer true. You must apply for a new passport. Application procedures and fees vary according to age, whether you are inside or outside the U.S.

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Vote in US elections from abroad

Mary Stewart Burgher Voting From Overseas 17 July 2018

An article by Laureen Scharps (AIWC Frankfurt)

Organizing a voter registration event as part of your club activities makes sense, especially if you live in a city with a consulate or embassy, whose staff are often eager to help. For example, AIWC Frankfurt invited Sevak Tsaturyan, Vice-Consul, US Consulate-General Frankfurt, to speak about voter registration at their monthly all-club coffee...

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Overseas Americans: register now to vote in the 2018 US election!

Mary Stewart Burgher Voting From Overseas 17 July 2018

Overseas Americans often complain that US law takes no account of them and indeed often imposes extra burdens on them. But there is no reason for US lawmakers to consider our concerns, if we play no part in deciding whether they keep their jobs. Voter turnout in the US is much worse than that in many developed countries: around 65%

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Contacting the Social Security Administration

US Liaison 26 July 2017

Dealing with agencies and administrations is never easy, and trying to do it from overseas only complicates matters!

One example is needing to contact the Social Security Administration for help in obtaining a Social Security number, creating or managing a personal Social Security account, changing your information on file with the SSA, etc.

Two of the most common questions that...

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Taking aim at the Election Assistance Commission

Voting From Overseas 03 July 2017

At precisely the time when we are seeing multiple threats take shape against US election systems, whether in the form of hacking by foreign or domestic agents or of newly created constraints that limit access to the polls in one way or another, the one agency established to protect the integrity of those same systems is once again – this...

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