N-400 and 90 days in local district

[TorontoGF 1]

Hello, here's the situation --

My husband is a US born citizen and I have been an LPR for 4 years.  I am trying to start the naturalization process ASAP because he’s been offered a temporary job in Europe for 2.5 years that starts in 8 months and we want to minimize the time we have to spend apart and we plan on living permanently in the US when his contract is up.

 

I know there is rule that to file the N-400 you have to have lived for 90 days in your current USCIS district and I’m wondering if I have to wait before filing since we moved 6 weeks ago —  before that we were between leases and we went on vacation and left our stuff in storage.  We had our mail forwarded to his parents in another state but did not reside there. 😬? Before putting our stuff in storage we lived in the same county and would have been served by the same USCIS district office. In total we have lived in the district for 10 months if you don’t count when we were away because you think that breaks the continuity.

 

Does that satisfy the 90 day rule? It would if the rule is not continuously living in the district which it doesn’t seem to explicitly say.

- If so, what should I put as our address when we were between leases on the N-400?

 

If not, because it has to be continuous and/or our time away restarted the 90 days, I guess I have to wait before applying.

- do I have to wait 90 days from my move-in date or 90 days from when I filed a change or address with USCIS? (I very stupidly forgot to change it for about a month 👎🏼).

 

Thanks for your input! 👍

[TorontoGF 1]

Just in case anybody reads this and wants a follow up — I called USCIS and the officer said that because I moved within the same county it does not break the 90 day rule even though I forwarded my mail somewhere else while I was on vacation and between leases.

 

He didn’t have an answer for what I should put for my address during the time between leases.

 

He was clear that it doesn’t matter that I moved addresses it just matters that I didn’t move to a different USCIS office district in the last 90 days.

[USS_Voyager 1,972]

5 minutes ago, TorontoGF said:

He was clear that it doesn’t matter that I moved addresses it just matters that I didn’t move to a different USCIS office district in the last 90 days.

That is correct. I think you should file ASAP online. If you get lucky, you can get it all done in 8 months. My brother in law filed in April and was had interview in October. He of course failed spectacularly and has to come back in December, but that's a different story.