N400 5 year eligibility
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N400 5 year eligibility
The N400 naturalization application mentions you have to have been a permanent resident for 5 years using your date of admission off of your green card as the date your 5 years starts from. No problem there.
However - does anyone know when you have to list your absences from the country and places you have lived in the past 5 years, if it is the past 5 calendar years, or the 5 years from your date of admission?
Thanks.
However - does anyone know when you have to list your absences from the country and places you have lived in the past 5 years, if it is the past 5 calendar years, or the 5 years from your date of admission?
Thanks.
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Re: N400 5 year eligibility
ukquestion wrote:
> The N400 naturalization application mentions you have to have been a
> permanent resident for 5 years using your date of admission off of your
> green card as the date your 5 years starts from. No problem there.
> However - does anyone know when you have to list your absences from the
> country and places you have lived in the past 5 years, if it is the past
> 5 calendar years, or the 5 years from your date of admission?
The past 5 calendar years. The point here is that besides being a PR for
at least 5 years, you also have to show your continous residence in the
US for the 5 years immediately preceeding the N400 application filing.
See the INS Guide to Naturalization, available on the INS website.
-Joe
> The N400 naturalization application mentions you have to have been a
> permanent resident for 5 years using your date of admission off of your
> green card as the date your 5 years starts from. No problem there.
> However - does anyone know when you have to list your absences from the
> country and places you have lived in the past 5 years, if it is the past
> 5 calendar years, or the 5 years from your date of admission?
The past 5 calendar years. The point here is that besides being a PR for
at least 5 years, you also have to show your continous residence in the
US for the 5 years immediately preceeding the N400 application filing.
See the INS Guide to Naturalization, available on the INS website.
-Joe