Dmitry Freitor

My mother came to the US as a parolee in 1999. After a year she
applied for her Green Card. It took INS over 2 years to process the
application, so she got the Green Card 3 years after admittance. As
the result she can only apply for the citizenship in 2007. But as I
said her parole is dated 1999 and parole automatically leads to Green
Card. Is there any way how she can apply for citizenship earlier
(2004?)?

Thanks.

Hnchoksi

    >Subject: INS took very long to process GreenCard - any way to speed-up
    >citizenship?
    >From: [email protected] (Dmitry Freitor)
    >Date: 5/28/03 6:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time
    >Message-id:
    >My mother came to the US as a parolee in 1999. After a year she
    >applied for her Green Card. It took INS over 2 years to process the
    >application, so she got the Green Card 3 years after admittance. As
    >the result she can only apply for the citizenship in 2007. But as I
    >said her parole is dated 1999 and parole automatically leads to Green
    >Card. Is there any way how she can apply for citizenship earlier
    >(2004?)?

No. It is 5 years from the date of approval of the permanent resident petition.
Or 3 years if married to a USC