Be suspicious of e-mail messages or even sites which ask you to re-enter login, credit card or other information to check your status.

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Check your employment status.

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If one of your goals is to be more active in social media, use this time to set reminders for yourself on a weekly basis for when you will update your status or check on your profiles.

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If you can track your UPS package with your iPhone, then why not be able to check the status of your citizenship application on a website, rather than having to write a letter and wait for a letter back?

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You're always free to call an employer to check on the status of your application or to see if the position has been filled.

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It would then, for example, be possible to use a kiosk in a hotel lobby to check out of the hotel, look up the status of your flight, and then check in for it.

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