N-400 address history, 90 days early error message

[havil80 6]

I am filling the N-400 form online, 90 days before the 5 years anniversary of my green card. The form requires me to put my addresses for the past five years, which in my case would includes the address in the 90 days before I landed in America for the first time. I tried to ignore it and only listed addresses since I landed in America, but I got an error message that I'm missing address history for 90 days. I really don't want to list my foreign address in the 90 days before arriving because it could give someone the impression that it's absence time unless they look closely and cross check dates in order to understand that it's 90 days before I was granted residency. Even worse it will be a time where I list a foreign address without a concurrent American address, which looks like abandonment. 

 

Has anyone faced this problem? How did you navigate it? I think I can ignore the error message and submit addresses for only the past 4 years and 9 months instead of the requested 5, but I'm worried this would make it incomplete. Any suggestions? Thanks.

 

Edited July 9, 2018 by havil80

[gregcrs2 1,777]

Please see instructions for N400.

 

Part 5.  Information About Your Residence List every address where you have lived during the last 5 years (including other countries) prior to filing your Form N-400.  Start with where you live now, and then include the dates for each place you have lived in a month, day, and year format (mm/dd/yyyy).  For example, type or print May 1, 1998 to June 1, 1999 as 05/01/1998 to 06/01/1999.

[CarlHamilton 252]

No, you have to provide what's required.  You can always wait 90 days if you want, but I don't think you need to worry that your pre-Green Card time abroad will be interpreted as a post-Green Card absence.  Give your reviewing officer some credit.