As this community is for Consular Processing I have a question that needs clarifying and hope this gets answered.

If an I-130 petition is approved, an Embassy interview and medical have been completed, but the applicant is a resident of one of the 75 banned countries, can a Writ of Mandamus be filed against the Federal government and enjoin the Ambassador and Consular General as parties to the suit?

Are there any case files like this referenced in LexisNexis to refer to?

On January 1 my account balance was $175000. I deposited $50000 on May 1. My current balance is $235000.

Fidelity says my YTD performance is +1.5%.

However when I supplied the exact same numbers and dates to an AI construct it says my performance YTD is 0%.

How can this be?

I started getting text messages like this:

Fidelity Investments Alerts

Ensure you can support the exercise or assignment of options which auto-exercise at expiration if at least $0.01 in the money.

My communication settings do NOT permit text messages. Fidelity contacted me via this group and the only solution the representative had was for me to remove my phone number from my profile.

How dumb is that!

I will block all text messages from Fidelity and see if that works!

So annoyed!!!

Fidelity Investments Alerts

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Ensure you can support the exercise or assignment of options which auto-exercise at expiration if at least $0.01 in the money.

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Why am I now getting a text message like this now?

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I never signed up for text messages on my account!!!

I am a US citizen who has lived abroad for several years.

With the USA's current restrictive immigration policies I am curious why foreign countries are not imposing the same difficulties on Americans who want to take up residency in their countries, or at the very least, force US Embassies or Consulates to depart their countries???

I find it hard to believe that foreigners allow their governments to condone Washington's actions on their citizens.

In Thrulines when I evaluate an ancestor and try to add them I get a message: The person you are trying to add is no longer in the system. The same thing happens when I try to add an ancestor from a hint. When I get that message an try to refresh the webpage, it kicks me out of the system and I have to log back in! And I'm paying for this? I must be STUPID!

I used to get physical coupons regularly in the mail from Kroger. It stopped about 2 months ago

Have they stopped issuing them?

I have a DNA match on my father's side. The same individual is showing up as a Thrulines match on my mother's side.

How can that be? Is the algorithm wrong?

Has anyone been issued the new Trump passport? Are there any additional fees for one? If I am issued one can I refuse to accept it?

I have to fly from Washington, D.C. to Bangkok, Thailand. I am almost in my 80's and the current flights with 17 hour legs are MURDER! I can remember flying from New York, to Newfoundland, to Greenland, to Ireland and London. It was time-consuming and arduous but at least you could get off of the plane, and stretch your legs!

Is there a way to find fares that allow you transit that aren't one or two stops?

I could easily handle IAD - ORD - SEA - ANC - TYO - BKK.

I've got plenty of time. I just can't stand being shoved into a coffin with wings anymore!

Here's an interesting situation. A US citizen marries a foreigner. He/she is retired and the foreigner is retired. The US citizen's sole income is Social Security. The foreign citizen's sole income is their foreign pension. The foreign citizen is immigrating to the United States. The US tax code allows the US citizen to file a joint return. The foreign citizen's pension is non-taxable in their country. The US tax treaty states that the foreign citizen's pension is only taxable in the foreign citizen's country.

#1. Does the US citizen have to declare the foreign citizen's pension on the joint return? How does the US citizen take a credit for any taxable foreign income when it is not taxed?

#2. When the foreign citizen is naturalized, is the foreign pension declarable and taxable at that point?

A major overhaul! The State of West Virginia is actively promoting businesses to move to West Virginia. As a newcomer in 2024, I filed a West Virginia tax return in 2025. I owed taxes and attempted to pay with an ACH transfer. Because I had not filed taxes previously West Virginia has no provision to do an ACH transfer. As I do not have a checking account this necessitated getting a postal money order to pay for my taxes.

My son filed his tax return in 2026 and received a letter stating that he owes taxes for 2025. The 'Adjusted Amount' shows he owes over $1,000 in taxes. His employer uses ADP for payroll processing and ADP appears to have not remitted the funds to the State. Yet the State is charging him a penalty and interest for underpayment?

West Virginia has one of the worst governments in the USA!

It had been awhile since I had been into Fullview so I thought I noted some discrepancies. I downloaded all of the transactions I could from Fullview and then compared it to the financial data from my bank and other accounts.

DOZENS of transactions were missing from Fullview causing the data to be misreported in the THOUSANDS of dollars. On top of that I found 6 "Bugs" where descriptions had been truncated or applied to the wrong account.

I reported the issue on April 10 and was told "We'll get right on it and it is being assigned to a manager." It's been over a month now and I have heard nothing regarding rectifying the TWO YEARS of erroneous data.

My advice to you is DON'T TRUST FULLVIEW!!!