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Is time to apply for Citizenship?

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shahidar   0

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I'm U.S Citizen since 3 years. My wife came to U.S 3 years back on my Green Card status .Very next month I became US Citizen after she arrived . I want to know if she can apply for her citizenship now or wait anothr two years. She is living in U.S since morethen 3 years and had not travel outside the U.S.

Please help me out. Thank you.

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*** Thread moved from USCIS Service Centers forum to the US Citizenship forum, where similar questions are often asked. ***

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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I'm U.S Citizen since 3 years. My wife came to U.S 3 years back on my Green Card status .Very next month I became US Citizen after she arrived . I want to know if she can apply for her citizenship now or wait anothr two years. She is living in U.S since morethen 3 years and had not travel outside the U.S.

Please help me out. Thank you.

She can apply when:

1- you have been a citizen for 3 full years.

2- you have been married for 3 full years.

3- she has been a permanent resident (the date on her green card) for 3 years minus 90 days.

All three conditions have to be met on the day you mail the application. So the three dates you have to look at are the date on your naturalization certificate, the date on your wedding certificate, and the date on her green card.

I don't know what you mean when you say she came to the US on your green card status. What matters is that she has her own green card and the date that she got it.

Edited by JimmyHou

For a review of each step of my N-400 naturalization process, from application to oath ceremony, please click here.

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shahidar   0

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Thanks for your response,

We got married in 2008. I filed her petition on my Green card. She came to US in March 2012. I got my citizenship in April, 2012.

That's why I was confused when to apply her citizenship after 3 or 5 years?

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Thanks for your response,

We got married in 2008. I filed her petition on my Green card. She came to US in March 2012. I got my citizenship in April, 2012.

That's why I was confused when to apply her citizenship after 3 or 5 years?

She can apply after three years.

You mentioned that she came to the US in March 2012 but that is not one of the three dates that comes into play; what is the date printed on her green card? It might also be March 2012, but it might be different.

It's her green card says that she is a resident since March 2012, then the limiting factor will be the day that you became a citizen Which means that she would be eligible to apply after April 2015.

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For a review of each step of my N-400 naturalization process, from application to oath ceremony, please click here.

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shahidar   0

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Now I'm cleared about the fact that this is absolutely the right time to apply for Citizenship.

Thanks for giving me detailed reply.

It was good experience with you all.

Thank you so much!!!

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