The Naturalization application asks you to list the dates you have been out of the country for the past 5 years. Because my wife has only been in the country for 3 years... do I say 730 days? How did you guys answer this question? Or did you treat the question to mean in the past 3 years?

Based on a post I saw a couple of weeks ago, I crossed out 5 and wrote in 3. I beleive a couple of people on here have done that also.

Thanks for the quick response... we were thinking of doing he same thing. Also, on page 1 of the application... you check the married and residing for at least 3 years box so I would think USCIS can put 2 and 2 together. But then again, you never know.

Also crossed out the 5 and put 3.

i actually counted the number of days and included an explanation letter (stating since coming to the u.s. 3 years ago i haven't left the country)

When we put my wife's application together we counted all of the days she was out of the US for 5 years, even though we were filing for expedited naturalization under 319(b) of INA. I did not want any reason whatsover for an RFE to delay our case.