Cyrill

Thank you, OldUser and Dashinka! 1) We have been married for 10 years. Does the 3-year rule apply? I was under the impression it was not. 2-3) Thank you for the insight! 4) Unfortunately, she is not on my mortgage since it preceded the marriage. And the car co-lease was set in 2023, my mistake. Does its current existence still help, even if her 6>-month absence preceded it? Since 2022 Another question: her GC expires in 11 months, should we file I-90 to have it replaced, even if we file I-400 this September? (assuming we do)

a) She will be applying based on the 5-year rule. She has been LPR since 2016. She is married to a US citizen. B) She has been employed by our single-member US-based LLC. I have W-2s for every year since 2016. She is a co-leasee of our car. (since 22) She has personal bank and CC accounts in the US. C) The last 6> mo absence was in 22 when she attended to her mother, who was dying from cancer. We have all the medical paperwork here. I just need to translate it. We returned to the US three weeks after her mother's passing. Maybe we should wait another 2 years. But will we have to explain all absences regardless? Or only the previous 5 years matter?

Thank you again. Do I understand correctly that even the COVID-19 delay and the delay caused by attending to her mother's dying are not considered by INS as a reasonable cause for breaking the continuous residence? This should not be an isolated situation. Is there any track record of situations like that?

Thank you! All that time, she was an employee of our single-member LLC involved in the interpretation and tour guide business. She has W-2s for every year since 2026. Will those work?

Greetings! I would like to initiate my wife's Naturalization process in September, when she will have accumulated a cumulative 2.5 years of in-country stays over the last five years. There were two times that she stayed outside the US for more than 180 days since she received her GC in 2016. 1. 2020 during Covid (Nov 2019 - Sep 2020). We flew back to the US in about a month and a half after the transatlantic traffic was restored. (However, this segment falls before the "previous five years") 2. When her mother was fighting cancer (Nov 21 - Aug 22). She flew to the US within a month of her mother's passing. Main question: Is this a deal breaker, or would Immigration accept explanations like her mother's cancer? TIA