N-400 Continuous residency question

[Jive2017 0]

Hi,

 

I had a question relating to continuous residency and I'll make it as short as possible. A person receives green card in Aug 2012 then travels to the states ever six months and then continously lives in the states from May 2014 to current date and there fore has continuoisly lived in the states for more than 30 months, however during the trips whereby the person tried to make a trip to the states within six month there was a period which was six months and 7 days outside the states. Do you think this would hinder the person's application to file for citizenship in Aug 2017 when the 5 years are up? The main question is does being outside the US for 7 days longer than six months cause an issue during the 5 year period? 

[andy78 178]

Yes, it will cause an issue.

 

Can you prove that you resided continuously in the United States for the last 5 years (house, job in the US, immediate family in the US, paid taxes, no employment outside the US, etc.)? That is what is generally required to overcome an absence of more than 6 months.

 

Read this:

https://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartD-Chapter3.html

Edited May 3, 2017 by andy78

[Jive2017 0]

Thanks for the input.