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Hi all,

I became a permanent resident in 2012 and removed the conditions in 2014. Right now, I am eligible to apply for citizenship under 3 year rule. However, I currently don't live with my wife. Since 09/2014, I moved to a different city (~350 miles away) to attend professional school. We debated a lot whether my wife should go with me or not but we decided my wife would stay because her parents need someone to help out and take care of them (we lived with her parents at that time). Since then, we have been so busy with everything but I was able to visit home like 3 times in a short period of time. We just exchange texts sometimes.

My question is, will the fact that we don't live together at one address affect my citizenship application process? A friend told me we could wait until we could apply under 5 year rule (we will most likely still apart) and that can be easier, but I am not sure. Applying under 3 year rule will be faster but riskier, from what I see.

We have a joint bank account and we have been filing taxes jointly. Since I moved, I still haven't change my address on my driver license because housing contract limits me for 2 years and I have to find another place until i finish my program so I decide to save myself the trouble of changing addresses.

I'm looking forward to inputs from you all. Feel free to ask anything, I'll do my best to clarify.

Thanks.

Awesome. I guess we will wait to file under 5 year LPR then. We don't want to risk anything. Thank you all for your inputs.

I think your problem would be to prove to the IO that you're still a married couple. I'm not sure how you'd do that.

If I were in your shoes, I'd hang on for 2 years and file based on 5 years' LPR instead of 3 years marriage.

Thank you for your opinion. To be honest, we are considering that option as well. However, won't IO still be questioning us about the time we live apart? And is our marriage no longer a factor in determining neutralization for 5 years' LPR?

Hello everyone,

Everyone on this forum has been a great help for my ROC journey, I hope you can help me out on my naturalization journey as well.

So I just received my 10-year GC couples weeks ago. Of course, we have been celebrating, but now reality hits again, we will file the N-400 next January. The problem that troubles us is that I am moving away from my USC wife this September for pharmacy school. She still has to finish her degree and works a job at our current town. Plus, her parents need her here to help so ultimately we decided to live apart while happily married. It's about 6 hours of driving between us. She won't be able to visit me much because of her busy schedule but I will come home for Thanksgiving and Christmas and whenever I have time to visit. So when I apply, it will have been about 5 months that we live apart. We are wondering if this will cause any troubles at my interview. I would love to hear from your similar experience. If you know any thread of the same situation, I will really appreciate the link.

Thank you all! Cheers.

I got my card today, 07/15. Whoo hoo!!!

My card was mailed out on the 10th as well. OMG, it's coming!!!!

Thank you so much. Best day ever!

OMG, my card was ordered for production yesterday (07/07). That was one day short of three months since NOA1 date. Does that mean we got approved? Does that mean the stress can be lifted for now? Please someone let me know, we really want to make sure.

I-751 mailed: 03/31

NOA1 date: 04/08

Bio: 05/12

Thank you all for your responses.

Hi everyone,

I'm new here and need some ideas on how to organize our photos to submit along with the I-751 form. I've tried to search for the answer on this forum but had no luck. If these questions have already been answered, I apologize and I hope you won't mind answer them again. Here are the questions:

1. How many photos should be considered adequate to send to USCIS?

2. Are photos of us with a lot of people considered better than just us? We have several photos with others but a lot of just us.

3. How should we print the photos? I have a few options, not sure which one is best

- Print them in pocket size, and glue them to letter-sized sheets of paper.

- Since ours photos are all computer files, paste them on a word document and color-print them out with a regular printer using paper sheets.

- Same as above, but instead of using paper sheets, go to photo center and print the document out as photos using photo papers (It seems as the best but the most expensive way).

4. I know we should write down names of people on the photos, locations and time underneath our photos. However, does the time need to be specific (meaning MM/DD/YYYY)? We could not remember specifically what day we took some photos so we plan to write as Summer of 2012, Fall of 2013, ect. Is that OK?

Those are all for now. We hope to hear from you soon. We thank you a lot.