August was my 5th anniversary of coming to America,land of the free and the home of the brave. Lots & lots of things had happened of course and our kids are almost as big as me which is not really a far reach since I am vertically challenged. I think I've learned so much in life this past 5 years more than my first 20+ of existance. Anyhoo...on Monday, Oct 19 at 11am , I will be interviewed by a Homeland Security & Immigration officer, test my knowledge on basic American civic & history and if I pass I will be officially a U.S. citizen!!
Last Minute Scare.
So last Wednesday evening I was checking my folder of paperwork to make sure I got everything ready to go when I glanced upon one line in the immigration checklist of docs to bring to my interview. My heart starts to pulpitate because I just realized I didn't have the kind of IRS forms that the USCIS specifically requires . I really thought that it's just our tax record that they needed which I was confident that we have but it when I look closely, it was another form that was called IRS 1722 Letter. It's like a transcript of our past tax records. Ofcourse I googled immidiately and the more I read the more my panic attack worsen because every website says it will take 10-15 days after you submit a request to the IRS.
Ring ring ring...( generic automated answering machine...)...thank you for calling the IRS...says the recorded voice on the other line...pres 1 if you need to ..blah blah blah....pres 2 if you yadidah didah.....then when I reached the option that I wanted the voice says..."there are other callers ahead of you so please don't hang up".....and I was like " No shit!"...your estimated wait time is....fifteen minutes. Seems like the longest fifteen minutes ever but I didn't mind at all in fact I used my wait time to pray to all the saints that I could remember to help me get through a "live Person" and not get transfered again. At about 16 mins later I heard a voice...a live person...a man..named Tony or Benny..I can't remember now but he sounded nice. I tried really hard to calmly explain to him my predicament ( or how stupid I was) and I guess he sensed from my obvious begging tone he asked my routine questions to established if this was a legit call and then he said the word that I was Praying to hear ...do you want me to mail it or FAX it to you??? I was secretly dancing and screaming inside my head ( yes yes yes!!!). He was so nice that he faxed 24 pages of freakin' tax infos which was exactly what I need for my interview.
Whew!! I was so happy and relieved I was smiling from ear to ear!!!
I just need to have passport pics taken and I'll do that tomorrow and I'm definitely 100% ready. I was told that if I was interviewed & tested ( and passed ) in the morning I might get sworn in the same day. Wooh!! I am so excited I can't stand it!!
Sample Picture Of Certification Of Naturalization
I'm gonna be getting this very cool piece of paper !! Yeah!!Fitness Update:
Still working out regularly but today I decided it is time to amp it up. I know I look better than I was 3 months ago but I wanted to lose more body fat before xmas so I increased resistance on my cardio, lifted more weight and work out more muscles and added more abs work out. My diet hasn't been squeeky clean but not too bad..still I need to get tougher & stricter if I want to lose more inches on my waist line.
We'll see if I can follow through!!
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