n-400 how to count the days for travel outside the US?

[togetmarried 0]

Hello!

I'm getting my n-400 application together based on my marriage to a USC and subsequent LPR status of 3 years.

For the question about the number of days outside the US:

Do I count the day of travel (departure/arrival) into that number?

Or, is it just those days where I was outside the US for the whole 24 hours?

For example, I left the US on October 17th for Europe and re-entered the US on October 20th.

In this case, was I outside the US for 2 days (Oct. 18 and 19) or 4 days (Oct. 17, 18, 19, and 20)?

Thanks everyone!

[lilsweetie 32]

I counted it as the number of 24 hour periods I was away, rounding down.

So say from 9am on Jan 1 until 5pm on Jan 3 I would count as 2 days + 8 hours (round down to 2 days since it doesn't count as 3 days yet).

I had almost 100+ trips outside the US (short ones but still, a lot of days to keep track of) and I put them all into Excel and counted the days in this way above and had no issues with it in my application.

I had to attach 2 additional single spaced, typed sheets to the N400 application because I had so many trips lol.

[JimmyHou 611]

Hello!

I'm getting my n-400 application together based on my marriage to a USC and subsequent LPR status of 3 years.

For the question about the number of days outside the US:

Do I count the day of travel (departure/arrival) into that number?

Or, is it just those days where I was outside the US for the whole 24 hours?

For example, I left the US on October 17th for Europe and re-entered the US on October 20th.

In this case, was I outside the US for 2 days (Oct. 18 and 19) or 4 days (Oct. 17, 18, 19, and 20)?

Thanks everyone!

You only count total days outside the U.S. There's no rounding down or up.

If you are inside the U.S. for part of a day then that day counts as a day INSIDE the U.S.

In the example you listed, leaving on October 17 and returning on October 20, this counts as a 2 day absence because you were in the U.S. For part of the 17th and 20th.

This information is stated clearly in the Naturalization Guide and the USCIS policy manual.

"USCIS will count the day that an applicant departs from the ​United States​ and the day he or she returns as days of physical presence within the ​United States​ for naturalization purposes.​"

https://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartD-Chapter4.html

If you leave at 1 am on Monday and return at 11 pm on Wednesday, then you only count 1 day because Tuesday was the only FULL day outside the U.S. Again, don't round up or down.

Edited February 11, 2016 by JimmyHou

[JimmyHou 611]

Hello!

I'm getting my n-400 application together based on my marriage to a USC and subsequent LPR status of 3 years.

For the question about the number of days outside the US:

Do I count the day of travel (departure/arrival) into that number?

Or, is it just those days where I was outside the US for the whole 24 hours?

For example, I left the US on October 17th for Europe and re-entered the US on October 20th.

In this case, was I outside the US for 2 days (Oct. 18 and 19) or 4 days (Oct. 17, 18, 19, and 20)?

Thanks everyone!

You only count total days outside the U.S. There's no rounding down or up.

If you are inside the U.S. for part of a day then that day counts as a day INSIDE the U.S.

In the example you listed, leaving on October 17 and returning on October 20, this counts as a 2 day absence because you were in the U.S. For part of the 17th and 20th.

This information is stated clearly in the Naturalization Guide and the USCIS policy manual.

"USCIS will count the day that an applicant departs from the ​United States​ and the day he or she returns as days of physical presence within the ​United States​ for naturalization purposes.​"https://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartD-Chapter4.html

If you leave at 1 am on Monday and return at 11 pm on Wednesday, then you only count 1 day because Tuesday was the only FULL day outside the U.S. Again, don't round up or down.

Also, from page 24 of the naturalization guide:

"partial days spent in the United States count as whole days spent in the United States."

[togetmarried 0]

Also, from page 24 of the naturalization guide:

"partial days spent in the United States count as whole days spent in the United States."

I must've been blind to have missed it!

Thank you for directing me to the source