Check immigration status by name Form 2023

TL,DR: I couldnu2019t believe it. It took me 30 minutes to realize it was real. I even verified if the email iu2019ve recieved was not a scam. In fact I didnu2019t even remember I applied!Flashback: I applied in October 2023. after a six-week trip in Southern California. I was back in Paris and I was suffocating. I missed the space, the nature, the friendly and warm SoCal, the weather, etc.So I applied in late 2023 after I took my first full time employee job. It was easy, I just needed to fill out a form, send a couple of pictures taken by a professional photographer (I remember the ugly beige and purple striped sweater I was wearing too! A pure fashion piece now archived into the immigration administration database.) and uploaded all to the dedicated website. Note that the department of state only opens that website during the time of application, during about a month.Fast forward: I checked my applicant status in May 2023. with zero hope I could have won. And I didn't find my name in the annual bulletin.Life had moved on, I started to date my soon to be husband, I changed job - which was horrible - but once in a while me and my husband we were taking about our dream jobs and life. He was telling me that he always wanted to covered NBA basketball (we literally live 20 min from the Oracle stadium and heu2019s still too shy to apply) and I was telling him that I always wanted to cover tech industry in the San Francisco Bay Area (Iu2019m not lying).But then, on Friday, July the 13th (Iu2019m not joking), I received an email from the department of state let me know that I should check again my status, forwarding me my application number, which I did, and I was pre-selected!Again, I couldn't believe it, so I stalk all the Internet to make sure that the email was a scam. But since the domain name associated to the email was u201cstate.govu201d, my doubts were dismissed and I started to compulsively repeate u201cNo!u201d.Now I can tell you when I called my husband and my mom how their first reactions were. But thatu2019s another story.

Other than contacting the personnel manager of whatever store you applied to, there isnu2019t much you can do to check on the status of your application.The thing is the entire job application process for major corporations has changed. With Walmart you apply online. That files is run through various programs and algorithms which seek to discard any that contain definitive red flags, or names that have been deemed u201cDo Not Hireu201d or u201cDo Not Rehireu201d. Those same programs and algorithms also seek to push to the forefront any applications which contain keywords and phrases that it is looking for specifically to hire. Once they have run through the gamut of analyses, any that pass muster are then sent to whatever stores you included in your application. So there may be numerous stores that receive it, depending on what you entered when applying. After all that if any store that receives it has an opening that matches what you put down as interests with regards to various positions, you may get called for an interview. That might take less than a day, or it might take several months. It depends on need and the availability of stores having open reqs. Once youu2019re called for an interview, you will usually be made an offer that same day, unless they decide you just arenu2019t a fit for what they are looking for.

It should be noted that Elon Musk was born a Canadian citizen. Canadian citizens have a much broader range of rights to visit and work in the United States than do citizens of other countries. A Canadian citizen holding a bacheloru2019s degree in a technical field will generally qualify for TN status, giving them the right to work in the US with only minimal paperwork.There is often no need for a Canadian citizen who completes a bacheloru2019s degree in most fields to use their F-1 OPT to obtain work, as a bacheloru2019s degree in many fields is sufficient to meet NAFTAu2019s requirement of a u201cprofessionalu201d. Musku2019s degree in economics is one of the listed NAFTA professions. The TN status (itu2019s not really a visa, because no visa is required or issued) is favorable for Canadians to F-1 OPT in most ways, the main limitation is that TN status does not allow self-employment while F-1 OPT does. There are no caps for TN status, and the application process is trivial: the TN applicant shows up at the border with their job offer and proof of professional qualifications and pays some fees. There could not be a greater contrast between this and the complicated bureaucracy that surrounds H-1B. (That said, some Canadians do obtain H-1B visas, since the H-1B has certain advantages.)Note also that Canadians do not generally need visas to enter the United States for personal reasons, the way most others need either a B-1/B-2 visa or a visa waiver. Canadians do not even need the visa waiver, Canadians need only to show proof of Canadian citizenship to enter the United States.Elon Musk doubtlessly benefited greatly from his Canadian citizenship in this regard. South Africans who are not also Canadian citizens will find that the strategies he used are likely unavailable to them.

Department of Homeland Security has a website to check status: myUSCIS

The Canadian government provides the following instruction for obtaining a FBI certificate from the USA (which the FBI itself calls the u201cIdentity History Summaryu201d) : How to Get a Police Certificate - United States.So you print out and fill the FBI request form, get your fingerprints done somewhere, and send the filled request form, the fingerprint card, and a $18 money order to the FBI.As far as the FBI itself is concerned, I donu2019t think your status in the USA (or the absence of such status) should be a problem. The form has a checkbox asking whether you are a US citizen or legal permanent resident or not, but it does not go into further detail (i.e. if you are neither a citizen nor an LPR, they donu2019t ask what your exact status is. For all they know, you may be an alien in some valid non-immigrant status, an adjustee, a parolee, an asylee, a refugee, an asylum claimant, etc). The form also asks for the last 4 digits of your US Social Security Number, but I imagine that if you have no SSN, they should be able to process the request anyway. (After all, there are plenty of foreigners who spent some month in the USA some time in the past in some legal non-immigrant status, never applied for an SSN, and now need to get an FBI certificate for e.g. Canadian or Australian immigration or naturalization. Their requests have to be dealt with somehow!)Getting fingerprints done may be a bit more problematic, depending on where you are. One can get a blank fingerprint card from the FBI web site, but to get your actual fingerprints on it, you probably would need to go to a local police station (or some other law enforcement agency) somewhere, with a valid ID (I suppose a current foreign passport should do), and pay a fee (used to be around $5 in many police departments). Here, one company has made a list of such agencies, by city and state: My FBI Report - Fingerprinting. I understand that in most US states local police does not inquire about the immigration status of people with whom they interact on some routine business (as opposed to those who are actually arrested - those may, in fact, be transferred to the ICE custody). You may want to check somehow what the policy of the authorities in your state is, thoughu2026(There is apparently an organization who strives to u201cname and shameu201d states, cities, and counties whose authorities fail to sufficiently well cooperate with the federal government in regard to the transfer of state prisoners to immigration detention. So theyu2019ve compiled a map: Map of Sanctuary Cities & States. Presumably, the police in localities like this would be the least likely to bother someone who has merely come to get his fingerprints done!)There are apparently also private companies in some towns which can do fingerprinting, a list has been compiled here: Where to Get Fingerprinted.