AOS interview Cleveland - affidavit question

[kaylip]

Field offices only retain records for so long. Once you become a citizen, they may destroy applications prior to your N-400. If you are applying in a different jurisdiction, it takes a lot for that I-485 or I-751 or Investigation report from the fraud unit to reach the the field office where the new US citizen is petitioning for a spouse - ten years later. Record keeping and staying up to date with technology advances are two things USCIS is not good at. They JUST figured out the kinks of the change of address system.

Furthermore, most cases that were ever sent to the fraud unit for investigation, were never closed or even investigated. Eventually, those people got approved for green cards and then became citizens. So now, they have to rely on your word. If they clutter the table with piles of paper to make it look like they're yours from your previous files. Don't let that intimidate you. It would take a monumental effort to pull that. You would have to be someone. Or you would have to make blatant misrepresentations on your applications - like say, the new spouse claims he/she was living with the new US citizen petitioner at a time when the petitioner claimed to be living with his/her former spouse on his/her N-400 application. That's how people get into trouble.

This link "Privacy Impact Assessment for the Immigration Benefits Background Check Systems" gives a nice overview of the background checks. It's not just one check and they use 5 systems to do them. Pretty much it comes down to the fact that if you are from country X, the system won't need to get you through all 5 systems. But if you are from country Y, then yes, your name will be run through all.

https://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/...scis_ibbcs.pdf

I didn't come across a list of countries

[UScitizenFilingforspouse]

I didn't come across a list of countries

Right. Exactly. It's not written anywhere. The same way the muslim Travel ban isn't a muslim Travel ban, per Mr. T, who later added Venezuela to the mix.

[jdub22]

Good news!

Today we got our approval 😊 got emails and text notifications that his I-485 status is in ?card production?. Yayyyyyy!