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		| chadl 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 12:36 am    Post subject: GF born in Russia & says on passport-problem w/ gtng job |   |  
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				| With the schools etc. all looking for "Native"....do you guys anticipate this will be a problem once I apply and send them copies of the passport? 
 US Passport
 Place of Birth: Russia
 
 But she has not lived there for more than 20 years.
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		| Korussian 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:55 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| I was born in Belarus, but have a Canadian passport.  No problems getting my 3 E2 VISAs thus far. 
 There's a specific age by which you have to have emigrated to North America (and studied in North American schools).  I can't remember what it is, but I think it's about 9 - 12, somewhere around late elementary school age.  Any later than that, and I'd worry about getting the VISA.
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		| chadl 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 6:57 am    Post subject: |   |  
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		| passport220 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 7:10 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Russia Township, Minnesota Russia, Ohio
 Russia, New York
 
 Some place in the application material, use an address in one of these places (previous address if available). Use the one that is closest to your home state. No, I am not joking.
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		| ChilgokBlackHole 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 8:04 am    Post subject: Re: GF born in Russia & says on passport-problem w/ gtng |   |  
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	  | chadl wrote: |  
	  | With the schools etc. all looking for "Native"....do you guys anticipate this will be a problem once I apply and send them copies of the passport? 
 US Passport
 Place of Birth: Russia
 
 But she has not lived there for more than 20 years.
 |  20 years ago Russia was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  What does her passport really say?
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		| sarbonn 
 
  
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				|  Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 9:55 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| It may still say Russia. Boris Yeltsin was the President of Russia while a member of the Soviet Union, so the passport might still use Russia or whatever republic was representative. |  | 
	
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		| CentralCali 
 
 
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				|  Posted: Tue Jan 26, 2010 3:03 pm    Post subject: Re: GF born in Russia & says on passport-problem w/ gtng |   |  
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	  | ChilgokBlackHole wrote: |  
	  | 20 years ago Russia was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |  
 No, Russia was part of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.  It was (theoretically) a union of different republics.
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