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Research

How to Find Your US Representative

So I had this immigration test coming up in a few days, and one of the questions was “Who is Your US Representative?”, which the app that I’m using tells me is Louie Gohmert. I’ve never heard of the guy, so I google him and sure enough, he’s a US Representative from Texas First Congressional District. It’s weird that I’ve never seen or heard the name before so I dig deeper.

So there are 435 US Representatives, and each one represents a Congressional District. So the question simply becomes, which US Congressional District am I in? Luckily, there’s a site which shows you that. It allows you to slap in your street address, and then after giving you some warnings that the mapping of street addresses to latitude and longitude is iffy, it then attempts to place your address in a district, and bingo, spits out a representative.

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Which Congressional District am I in?

To double check, I went to the list of representatives by district, and scrolled down to see the 36 House Representatives for Texas and there they all were. Allegedly, the address above is in District 25 and Roger Williams is my man. Not Louie. I’m glad I checked. You can also find out your State’s US Senators there.

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Naturalization

IRS Form 1722

I just got my letter for the Naturalization Interview and in the document checklist for the interview is “An original Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 1722 listing tax information for the past three years“. After 45 minutes on hold with the IRS (using the handy number of 1-800-829-1040 provided on the Department of Homeland Security’s letter) I can tell you the following: there is no IRS 1722 any more.

The IRS operator told me that the 1722 was no longer used, and that a tax return transcript can be used instead. Luckily these are extremely easy to get hold of at the IRS transcript site. They take 5-10 business days to be mailed to you.

This is contrary to the 1722 info I read online – so don’t spend hours on hold with the Internal Revenue Service wasting time. Just order a transcript and move on.

It’s a shame that the different government offices can’t have a common language to describe the same form.