5 years of employment, education, addresses, and travel for marriage to US citizen (3 year requirement)

[usc85 6]

Hi everyone,

 

I am USC helping my wife get her naturalization papers ready. I was hoping someone could help me out with understanding if she needs to provide 5 years of information for all the questions that ask for 5 years, or if 3 is enough since she is filing based on our marriage, and has only been in the US 3 years. For example on the N-400, Parts 5 and 8 ask for this type of information. Do they really want her address and employment from before she came to the US? That's painless enough to include if they do. But part 9 is particularly confusing, since it asks how long you were out of the US during the past 5 years -- well she was certainly outside for 2 of those years! (Before she was LPR). But I understand the question is asking about her time as LPR. Hope someone can just tell me that I should be pretending the questions say "3 years for marriage to US citizen," and I'll be fine just doing that. 

 

Thanks for any advice anyone is able to offer!

 

Best of luck to all.

[JFH 12,189]

If you're filing based on the 3-year rule for spouses of USCs then answer each question that makes reference to 5 years as if it said 3 years. 

[a+j 77]

I listed work in the past 5 years (here and overseas) and the times outside the US since moving here (ie, less than 5 yrs), and added a note to explain that I was doing that because I was applying under the 3 year rule. I recently passed my interview, so I guess that worked.

[usc85 6]

Thanks to both of you!

 

Can I ask another quick question. What is the consensus on adding "N/A" throughout the document? It seems totally silly to me, but the instructions right on page 1 say to do it...

 

(For example in the "Middle Name" boxes -- if there is no middle name). I don't want them to get confused and think someone's middle name is "N/A"! (Hey, they probably won't make that mistake, but you never know...)

Edited May 14, 2017 by usc85

[a+j 77]

I'm not sure about the consensus. I did it by section. If a section did not apply to me, I wrote N/A once. It just seemed way too much to put N/A in every single blank space.

[candybabe 46]

On ‎5‎/‎14‎/‎2017 at 0:11 PM, usc85 said:

Thanks to both of you!

 

Can I ask another quick question. What is the consensus on adding "N/A" throughout the document? It seems totally silly to me, but the instructions right on page 1 say to do it...

 

(For example in the "Middle Name" boxes -- if there is no middle name). I don't want them to get confused and think someone's middle name is "N/A"! (Hey, they probably won't make that mistake, but you never know...)

the forms are being electronically scanned into the system -

typing N/A helps prevent any scanning errors -

the system would try reading information in the blank spaces and would error out - thus making the agent type the rest of the form in manually.

 

I included N/A in all the blank boxes, including the date boxes if that was the case or the apt box if only house and street in address.

 

I am not an immigration specialist / lawyer.