Citizenship requirement (continuous & N470)

[pariz 0]

Hello everyone,

I am in a situation where I need some help and clarification on when can I apply for my citizenship.

I got my GC through my spouse on Aug 7, 2010. I am in Saudia Arabia for work (Engineering) and since today, I have made the following trips:

Trip 1:

10/22/2011 - exited US at 12:00pm

10/25/2011 - entered US at 7:05pm 3 Days out of US.

Trip 2:

03/05/2012 - exited US at 11:00pm

03/23/2012 - entered US at 4:00pm 18 Days our of US.

Trip 3:

09/12/2012

09/14/2012 - Out for 2 Days

Trip 4:

09/26/2012 - Working for a U.S. Company in Saudia

02/04/2013 - Returned to U.S. --- Out for 131

I applied for N-470 on 11/15/12 and it is still pending..

This is what I am planning for future:

Trip 5

02/23/2013 - Working for a U.S. Company in Saudia

04/23/2013 - Enter U.S. --- Out for 41 Days

Apply for citizenship on May 7th, 2013. Do the fingerprints etc.

Last Trip:

06/15/2013 - Leave U.S.

07/15/2013 - Enter U.S.

Stay in the country till I get interview.

All this time I will be working for U.S. Employer, paying taxes in the U.S. Maintaining, house mortgage, car, insurance, cell phone, etc. in the U.S. My spouse and kid is here as well.

These are my questions:

1) Can I apply for U.S. Citizenship on May 7th, 2013?

2) Will there be an issue in applying citizenship?

3) My N-470 is pending. I had an infopass and i was told it is transferred to Service Center, not sure what is going on with it.

3) Any other suggestions?

I would really appreciate your help in this matter.

Thanks.

[Paradise123 7]

None of your trips look to long or back to back so you should be fine even without n470.

What I want to suggest is that you cannot apply on May 7th. You can apply 3/5 years -90 days, not 3 months. You can calculate your earliest filing date here:

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.5af9bb95919f35e66f614176543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=e6051c613880f210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

[pariz 0]

None of your trips look to long or back to back so you should be fine even without n470.

What I want to suggest is that you cannot apply on May 7th. You can apply 3/5 years -90 days, not 3 months. You can calculate your earliest filing date here:

Thanks Paradise123 for pointing that out. It comes to be May 9th, 2013.

[warlord 73]

Yep it looks like you've done this the correct way and have everything in order. I don't see any issue with your interview at all with this. Working for the US company will make it go that much more smoothly with the IO as well...