Taking an employment outside US after filing n-400

[DoctorX 0]

Our green card is valid until 2025 and have already filed our n-400 and the myUSCIS says the processing time is approximately 9-months.

I am considering an offshore employment opportunity with a joining date of May-2022. Does it affect my citizenship? Does it affect green card?

Also, should I apply for I-131 (do we need to apply for a re-entry permit)?

Thank you! 

[JeanneAdil 6,539]

Offshore with an American company? Like in gulf of Mexico?  Or on a cruise ship registered in the US?

makes a difference

Maintaining a US residency?

[DoctorX 0]

It is not an American company. It is in Dubai. 

We want to maintain residency status and continue with the n-400 progress. Will be bale to come here on the dates for interview and oath ceremony. 

[SalishSea 17,920]

34 minutes ago, DoctorX said:

It is not an American company. It is in Dubai. 

We want to maintain residency status and continue with the n-400 progress. Will be bale to come here on the dates for interview and oath ceremony. 

Aren't you subject to continuous residency requirements prior to the interview?

[arken 4,197]

46 minutes ago, DoctorX said:

It is not an American company. It is in Dubai. 

We want to maintain residency status and continue with the n-400 progress. Will be bale to come here on the dates for interview and oath ceremony. 

You are doing what uscis doesn't want you to sdo.
 

 

However, an applicant may overcome the presumption of a break in the continuity of residence by providing evidence to establish that the applicant did not disrupt the continuity of his or her residence. Such evidence may include, but is not limited to, documentation that during the absence:^[14]

• The applicant did not terminate his or her employment in the United States or obtain employment while abroad;

[DoctorX 0]

We already completed more than 5 years of continuous stay in the US. Does this help clarify the questions?

[arken 4,197]

8 minutes ago, DoctorX said:

We already completed more than 5 years of continuous stay in the US. Does this help clarify the questions?

Maintaining continuous residence and physical presence requirement applies till you get interviewed/approved and till you attend oath ceremony. You maintained and so were eligible to file N400. Now you have to maintain to get approved and to get oath.

 

Note continuous residency doesn't mean continuous stay. I can go abroad for 3 months and come back and still maintain continuous residency.

Edited November 16, 2021 by arken

[DoctorX 0]

This is very helpful.

Thank you!

[da95826 387]

8 hours ago, DoctorX said:

I am considering an offshore employment opportunity with a joining date of May-2022. Does it affect my citizenship? Does it affect green card?

Also, should I apply for I-131 (do we need to apply for a re-entry permit)?

To maintain your residency to naturalize  you must not be out of the US for more than 180 days at one time (note not 6 months). If you are out of the US for more than 180 days you need to wait 5 years to re-apply for the n400. A reentry permit will save your green card for stays out of the US more than a year up to 2 years but will NOT maintain your continuous residency for naturalization.

 

To naturalize, don't be out of the USA for more than 180 days at one time and you must be in the US for one day more than 30 months during the past 5 years up through your oath ceremony.

[Coco8 1,042]

You might get lucky depending on where you live. A friend got his citizenship in 6 months. 

 

If it takes the 9 months, it's more like if you were in a long vacation. The important part is that you are a resident of the state you filed from, so keep your address there and a local address for your bank (if you don't have utilities). I may be misremembering, but they might ask you to take a bill to show that you are a resident of the state.

 

Edited November 17, 2021 by Coco8