Gnagnagna

Was sworn in yesterday and became a citizen of the United States of America.

Hi, I am a US citizen now. Applied end of May, and was sworn in yesterday.
I also have German citizenship, and its passport (costs $40), with which I can travel internationally. The US passport costs 150+ dollars, so I'd prefer to have the passport card at $30.

I would therefore just use the passport card to enter the US, and the German one for the flights themselves - just to save the money.

The issue, the passport card is just for entries on the land borders and seaports. It says it isn't issued for international travel.

However, I would travel internationally with my German passport. I would show the passport card to the officer in the cubicle, and that should be all of it, identifying me as an American. Is the logic OK, or what do you think?

Hi, I submitted my N-400, and entering the receipt number on the USCIS website, I receive the info "case was received."

Will there be updates on the check status website, as to when I have the biometrics appointment and interview appointment etc?

Hi, I submitted N-400 this month. I want, or indeed have to travel to Europe later this month (5/26-6/8), so I will be gone for twelve days.

Is this OK? I don’t have anything scheduled USCIS-vise in that time. But I was in Europe from Oct. 2014 till Apr. 2015, for a total of 174 days. It says I cannot be overseas for more than 180 a year, so does only the 2015 portion of my long trip count? Or will USCIS add the 12 days to the previous 174 days?

Many thanks.

I mailed the package today. Will I receive a confirmation that they received by email or phone?

Hi,

I live in Maine, and will be sending next week (probably) N-400. Now, I looked up where to mail it. I expected USCIS here in Maine. Instead, I’ll have to send it to Dallas. I am a bit confused. Is it so that they receive the forms in Dallas (or Phoenix), and then send to your closest USCIS office? Or what do they do (and decided) there? This procedure appears to me very cumbersome.

Why do they do it like that?

Hi, I will be eligible to send N-400 next week. There is however one point, where I’d have a question, which is Part 4, info about residences. For the last two years, I am able to provide the exact dates for when I lived where. For the time before, however, I am not sure anymore. I am guessing the dates, and the might be a month or two off the exact date.

But every time I’d moved, I notified USCIS about the change of address. So they should have an exact record for when I lived where.

Has anyone experience with this issue?

Hi,

On the marriage application form issued by the state of FL, May 12 2012 is recorded as the day of our marriage. This is when we had the ceremony in church. On the top of it, May 15 2015 is entered as "official record" of the marriage with the receipt number.
For USCIS purposes, did I get married on the day of our marriage, or when I brought the form back to the govt?

Hi, on form N-400, part 9, section 9, info about your marital history, do I have to supply a copy of a divorce decree, if I've been married and divorced in the States prior to my second marriage?

Thank you.

You've resided in Maine since September of 2014. The 3 month state residency rule will not be a problem.

If you've been out of the US between October 2014 and April 2015; that may be a problem with respect to the continuous residency rule.

I was out for 178 days, so still below the 180 days threshold.

Hi, I lived in FL between 2006 and 2014. In Sept. 14, I moved to ME. I stayed there for Sept., when I went overseas for travel. I was physically present for 35 days.

Yet I still have my home there. When I return next week, it will be April. In May I can mail in N-400.

Question: Will I have resided in ME for 60 days, i.e. I have to wait another 30 days prior to filing N-400,

or do I have already 90 residence, since I have maintained a home in ME since Sept. last year.

Thanks.

why did you say you became a permanent resident in 2011?

because I became a Conditional PR in June 2011.

Thanks for the info.
I became a CPR based on a prior marriage. The conditions of it were removed in 2013.

I am now applying based on the marriage that began in May 2012.

Since I have been married for two years and ten months, I assume I have to wait till May to file N-400, if I read you correctly.

(Sorry for the EB-5 confusion in my profile. In fact, under the options for visa type, my category of IR6 is not listed. It ends with IR5 on the drop down thing.)

Hi,

I became a Conditional Permanent Resident in June 2011. In May 2012 I married.

Thus this May, I will be able to submit the N-400 form for naturalization.

My question, can I submit the form 90 days prior to May or only on the day of the anniversary in May?

Also, I lived in Florida until September last year, when I moved to Maine. I lived in Florida for the previous eight years, with only 36 days absences in that time.

However, I traveled in Oct. to Europe, and when I return in a couple of days, I will have been gone for 170ish days. (All combined is still ok with physical presence and continuous residence.)

Since I moved from FL to ME in Sept., I only spent 30 days in ME before travelling to Europe. When I am back in ME, do I have to be there another 60 days to fulfill the residency requirement, or does it suffice that I moved my residence from FL to ME, and am a resident of the latter since Sept. 14?

Thanks for your advice.

they are both ok with it.

Hi,

I currently hold two citizenships and am a permanent resident. Just to be sure, can I receive a third citizenship, one from the US, and is that OK with USCIS?

I became a Conditional Permanent Resident in April 2011.

https://egov.uscis.gov/cris/processingTimesDisplay.do

It states that processing takes five months, so it should work. I am still trying to figure out if I can submit the N-400 90 days prior to the May date.

Hi,

Early May I will be eligible to mail the I-400 and hopefully should be sworn in by Sept. or Oct.
Can I travel overseas in the time between May, after sending the form, and the time of being sworn in, interview, and/or biometrics?

Thanks.

Hi, I am a Green Card holder, and will be eligible to apply for citizenship (based on marriage) in May 2015. I am permanent resident since June 2011.

On the form N-400, I am asked how many days I have spent outside the US for the last five years (i.e. since May 2010). I only went overseas for four weeks in Dec. 2012-Jan. 2013 and then again for a week in August 2013. In total, about 36 days. The issue here is that I have the stamps in my passport for the reentry date, but not for when I left the country.

I don’t have any records left for the flights I took, except the credit card info. Is there a way to find out the exact travel (= departure) dates with this?

Second question, I have left the states on October 6 2014, and have since been traveling in Europe. So far 118 days have past.

How much longer can I stay overseas if I want to submit N-400 in May. It says that after six months (180 days) outside the States, one looses – or it “disrupts” – continuous residence. Does this mean all absences cannot be cumulatively be more than 180 (meaning I would have 154 days so far and would have to return in 26 days) or can one single absence exceed 180 days.

Third question, it is stated (§ Sec. 316.2, Section 5) that “Immediately preceding the filing of an application, or immediately preceding the examination on the application if the application was filed early pursuant to Section 334(a) of the Act and the three month period falls within the required period of residence under Section 316(a) or 319(a) of the Act, has resided, as defined under § 316.5, for at least three months in a State or Service district having jurisdiction over the applicant's actual place of residence.”

Does this mean that I have to have resided continuously 90 days in FL prior to my filing in May, or, that I have to have resided for a total of 90 days (including time prior to me leaving in October) in FL when I submit N-400 in May. Since I will return on March 1^st, I will have spent only 60 days in FL between my return and the date of the filing of N-400.

Many thanks for your answers.

Hello, I am a resident since June 2011. I am married since May 2012. By May 2015, I will be married three years. Ergo, can I submit my citizenship application in February 2015, 90 days before being eligible? Or do I have to count back from June 2015?

Hi,

I will eligible to apply for citizenship next year. Yet in the last three months, I lost both my jobs. I haven’t applied for any welfare, as at the moment I can manage everything, and have the option of employment overseas.

Yet I am thinking about getting Medicaid, as health insurance is one thing I would like to have.

Does that have any ramifications for the citizenship process?

The taxes in Germany are higher than in the US, so I wouldn't have to pay any to the IRS anyhow. Also, since my wife is American, we might come back after a couple of years, or just visit for longer. Thus it is more economic for me to have the passport.

There are many people who have dual citizenship. I was just wondering if triple citizenship might be an issue.

As for the 90 days, it states:

"The spouse of a U.S. citizen filing for naturalization on the basis of his or her marriage may file the naturalization application up to 90 days before the date he or she would first meet the required three-year period of continuous residence."

Now, I already met that condition last year. I was a resident from 2011 onwards, so by now I am in my fourth year. What would then be the point of counting backwards from June 2015 (the anniversary of my greencard). Shouldn't in this case the marriage count?

So I can file N-400 in February 2015, 90 days before May 2015, my eligibility date?

Also, I have two citizenships already. Is that an issue?