carl14

My wife is applying for the US citizenship on the basis of the
five-year residency requirement. I am  a US citizen and my wife
obtained her  US lawful permanent resident status via our marriage
8 years ago. She is very nervous about the naturalization interview and wants me
to support her during the interview. She speaks good
English, but  English is not her first language and she is
afraid to get confused, misunderstand something under stress
and, as a result,  give a wrong answer.We understand that, certainly,
she needs to answer all standard questions on N-400 form, all
questions on  English and civics tests by  herself.

Could she bring me to the room where the interview takes
place? If so, could I help her with some additional questions (besides
the ones in N-400, English and Civics tests) the officer may ask her?

Did someone accompany his/her spouse to the interview room?

My understanding is that a current valid state ID that was issued more than 3 months ago with
a current address on it can serve as a proof for 3-month residency requirement for N-400 form

application.

Would presenting this ID be sufficient? In other words ...  Is there a need to present any other evidence 

(like current lease) besides a valid state ID to prove the 3-month residency ?

4 minutes ago, Lil bear said:

Citizenship has nothing to do with  employment status .. or affidavit of support.. that was required for the LPR status not application for citizenship 

I understand this. The reason I have asked this question is to prepare for possible difficulties like described below:

Multiple people claimed on immigration forums that if an applicant has been
unemployed, then s/he must be prepared to show and explain to USCIS how
s/he has been supporting himself/herself without the means of any
visible income. Otherwise the officer might presume that the
applicant might have been involved into some kind of shady or even
illegal activity to support himself/herself.

I am a US citizen and my wife  is going to apply  for the US citizenship by the reason
of being  a lawful US Permanent Resident  for more than 5 years. During all this time she
has been an unemployed  stay-at-home mom taking care about
our kids.  I have been a sole bread-winner for our family.
We have filed taxes jointly as a married couple.
Multiple people claimed on immigration forums that if an applicant has been
unemployed, then s/he must be prepared to show and explain to USCIS how
s/he has been supporting himself/herself without the means of any
visible income. Otherwise the officer might presume that the
applicant might have been involved into some kind of shady or even
illegal activity to support himself/herself.

I guess that  presenting our joint  tax returns  would be viewed as an evidence  that my wife (
and a whole family)  has been  supported by me. Is this right?

Does she  need to present some  other documentation in addition to our taxes in this respect like  "affidavit
of support" from me ?

On 2/2/2020 at 10:30 PM, SusieQQQ said:

I just downloaded what looked like the next best thing for the prior 2 years, I think it was an irs tax account or something, and added those into the file with the transcripts for the most recent 3 years. They were fine with that. Seems most people don’t even get asked for them.

Account Transcripts are available only for 4 recent years. So, tax information for one year is still missing.

USCIS strongly recommends to present original IRS tax return transcripts for the past 5 years at the interview. However, the transcripts are available only for last 3 years on the IRS website.

I wonder how could I prove that I filed taxes in the past 5 years if the transcripts for the earliest 2 years cannot be obtained from IRS? What normally naturalization applicants do in this situation?  Any advice?

My spouse obtained her  US lawful permanent resident status via our marriage
8 years ago. She has maintained this status ever since. In the last 5 years she
has been physically present in the USA.  Soon she  is going to apply  for
the US citizenship. It seems her eligibility satisfies requirements described
in both items A and B of Part 1 of N-400 form.

A. Have been a lawful permanent resident of the United States for at least 5 years.
B. Have been a lawful permanent resident of the United States for at least 3 years.
In addition, you have been married to and living with the same U.S. citizen spouse
for the last 3 years, and your spouse has been a U.S. citizen for the last 3 years at
the time you filed your Form N-400.

I wonder what eligibility criteria she has to chose? A or B ?
Can she chose either of these two?
It appears that path A is easier since  she needs to present fewer documents if she
goes with it. Is this right?