Application for Naturalization

Mailing address changed.

please see detail at here.

What to do if you did not receive EAD within 90 days

First, you can call USCIS Service Center at 1-800-375-5283. Ask for "service request" so you can get response within a week or even better, ask for interim card and get a response.

Second, you can schedule infopass appointment at local USCIS office. Personally I think this method is not really helping anything as local USCIS office no longer issue EAD. They will still forward your case to service center.

Third, after you attemp above, and get no reponse, write e mail to cisombudsman.publicaffairs@dhs.gov
with detail of your efford.

for detail stpes, check DHS webiste here.

Citizenship test questions

After 5 years holding your green card, you can apply for citizenship. You will need to pass 6 questions out of 10 questions that tester ask you. The questions will be chosen from 100 questions pool. Right now there are three languages test available, Chinese, English and Spanish. USCIS also provide flash card so you can better prepare your test. See more educational material here.

Lehman Brothers and H1B

If Lehman Brothers can disappear overnight then H1B holders sometimes might worry what it the same thing happen to them? When the company file chapter 11, they might still operating so your H1B will be ok as long as you are not laid off. In other words, you need to be "hired" to keep your H1B. When you would like to go to next step, Green Card, it might be risky as USCIS will consider the company "ability to pay". Sometimes Fortune 500 company is not the best place to get H1B as they usually have more hiarachy and you need to go through more people to get your paperwork done. more people usually means more time and what H1B applicants do not have is time.