Urgent: N400 Jurisdication question

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suraj237

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I live in the bay area. Till August-01-2009 I lived in Fremont, California and from August-02-2009 I move to another city in California (Richmond). In order to be satisfy the 90 day jurisdiction rule do I need to live in the new address for 90 days before I send out the n400 application?

thanks,

suraj
 
Does Fremont and Richmond both fall under the San Francisco office, or does one fall under San Francisco and the other under San Jose? If both addresses fall under the same office (San Francisco or San Jose) you shouldn't have to wait. If they are in different offices then you have to wait the number of days required to live in the district before applying.
 
suraj237 said:
I live in the bay area. Till August-01-2009 I lived in Fremont, California and from August-02-2009 I move to another city in California (Richmond). In order to be satisfy the 90 day jurisdiction rule do I need to live in the new address for 90 days before I send out the n400 application?

thanks,

suraj
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Yes, 90 days in State.
 
Uncle Joe said:
Yes, 90 days in State.
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Not necessarily Uncle. If there is more than one DO in the State then the OP needs to be in the DO district for his Zip code for the 90 days.

Someone posted a link here a few days back for zip code and DO.
 
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WhichWay2Go said:
Not necessarily Uncle. If there is more than one DO in the State then the OP needs to be in the DO district for his Zip code for the 90 days.

Someone posted a link here a few days back for zip code and DO.
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Residency's driving me nuts.
Im Resident in State "A" (taxes, DL, vehicle registration etc)
Living in State "B" (renting a house)
Working in State "C" (physically working)

Question, Im claiming to be a resident of state B for Naturalization Im I correct?
 
Thank you guys,

Can anyone please tell me where can I obtain more information on which DO (Can anyone ellobrate what DO means) does Fremont and Richmond belong too? I'm trying to find out if both the city fall under the same DO?

THanks,
Suraj
 
Thanks for providing the link. The link did not have a provision to enter my zip code, however it listed all of the field offices for California. For the bay area it showed two offices, one is SFO and other was in San Jose. Since Richmond where I live is close to SFO, I presume that is where my jurisdiction may belong.

Bottom line, I'm still confused if I should wait 90 days in order to file for n400?
 
Check it again. If you do not see it, do a browser search for "Local Office Locator", you will see it. Sometimes eyes can be so misleading...

Also, once you click on a specific office name, it tells you the counties it processes.
 
Uncle Joe said:
Residency's driving me nuts.
Im Resident in State "A" (taxes, DL, vehicle registration etc)
Living in State "B" (renting a house)
Working in State "C" (physically working)

Question, Im claiming to be a resident of state B for Naturalization Im I correct?
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For taxes AND naturalization and DL and car registration you should claim to be a resident of B. Your car and DL are supposed to be registered where you live (state B)*, not where you work, and not some third state where you neither live nor work. And you'll pay taxes to state C as a nonresident (and perhaps some taxes to B as a resident, if the formula B and C use to offset the double taxes doesn't completely cancel B's taxation).

How does state A come into the picture, if you neither live nor work there? If you get into a car accident, you're going to be in trouble with the law and with insurance once they find out you're not living in A. Are you a college student there?


*if your car is normally not parked in the state where you live, you may be allowed to register it only in the other state where it is regularly parked overnight. For example, snowbirds who live in New York but keep a car in Florida where they visit 4 months per year.
 
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Uncle Joe,

Thanks for pointing me to this link. I was very much relived since my new home address(Richmond,cA) and the old address (fremont,ca) fall under the same DO. I'm going to mail out my n400 today.

Thanks again,

Suraj
 
Uncle Joe said:
Residency's driving me nuts.
Im Resident in State "A" (taxes, DL, vehicle registration etc)
Living in State "B" (renting a house)
Working in State "C" (physically working)
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You may have a problem Uncle,

To prove continuous residency they will look at things like Tax transcripts and the address on your DL.

I have no idea what to suggest, but my guess in that case would be "A".

If you are renting a place in State B, then in most (all?) States you have 30 days in which to change the Reg and DL. That would then make the residence "B"

Rather than risk losing the 700-bucks application fee with a denial on residency confusion, I would get the paperwork (reg/DL) in order for "B" providing you satisfy the 90 day residency rule there.

At the interview, you will be swearing under oath that everything is true. You will have no idea what information USCIS has for the interview. It would be foolish to lie as that would be a deportation offense if caught out.
 
Jackolantern said:
How does state A come into the picture, if you neither live nor work there?
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His wife and kids may live there and he has had to take a job in another State but rents a house in an adjoining State and goes home weekends etc. Working across the border is pretty common in the North Eastern States like PA, MD, DE, DC, NJ, CT etc
 
Hi, you should have faced the same situation or question while your were filling your taxes
but your question is quite normal look other job like pilot, seaman etc.,
where people naturalize too

what you consider and establish as permanent is what really matters and if you are still concerned make a phone call to Rajive
 
Uncle Joe said:
Residency's driving me nuts.
Im Resident in State "A" (taxes, DL, vehicle registration etc)
Living in State "B" (renting a house)
Working in State "C" (physically working)

Question, Im claiming to be a resident of state B for Naturalization Im I correct?
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When you do FP and interview, you may asked to show your DL
and if USCIS see yoru DL is not from the state where you claim to
live, they may questions. Of course we trust that they are reasonable
and will accept your explanation. But if you have a choice, better
make sure your DL and yoru residence are considtent
 
For taxes AND naturalization and DL and car registration you should claim to be a resident of B. Your car and DL are supposed to be registered where you live (state B)*, not where you work, and not some third state where you neither live nor work. And you'll pay taxes to state C as a nonresident (and perhaps some taxes to B as a resident, if the formula B and C use to offset the double taxes doesn't completely cancel B's taxation).

How does state A come into the picture, if you neither live nor work there? If you get into a car accident, you're going to be in trouble with the law and with insurance once they find out you're not living in A. Are you a college student there?


*if your car is normally not parked in the state where you live, you may be allowed to register it only in the other state where it is regularly parked overnight. For example, snowbirds who live in New York but keep a car in Florida where they visit 4 months per year.
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There is a thing, Im moving around a lot. For Taxes and all legal stuff I m resident of State A, it means I was living there and there live my family, so that place can't go anywhere right. So I don't have to get new DL filed up different forms everytime im moving on job related basis.

Im living in state B and working in state C because my place of work right now and house close to State Line, and it's easy to find place for live in State B than C, and it's close to the work place.

I have Insurance of State A (general) and same company gives additional card specially for state B yes it cost 50 bucks more, but at the same time Im protected.
 
WBH said:
When you do FP and interview, you may asked to show your DL
and if USCIS see yoru DL is not from the state where you claim to
live, they may questions. Of course we trust that they are reasonable
and will accept your explanation. But if you have a choice, better
make sure your DL and yoru residence are considtent
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I put every address in N-400 form including State B Residency and State C work address, And I took fingerprints in State A USCIS DO, when i was on short vacation. Interview should be in State B DO, I sent e-mail to SC and they replay me back. telling me don't worry, your USCIS DO will be close to where you are right now.

I claim State B my Living Place for USCIS, because State A is kind of far away.
I spend about 5 months at the same location
 
BostonCool said:
Hi, you should have faced the same situation or question while your were filling your taxes
but your question is quite normal look other job like pilot, seaman etc.,
where people naturalize too

what you consider and establish as permanent is what really matters and if you are still concerned make a phone call to Rajive
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Exactly, what we suppose to do((( IRS never asked a question about that, every time im filling taxes, State A for Taxes and State B for place where you can find me, and Im not doing taxes on my own, there is a tax center who telling you how to fill. So it means it's not a big deal
 
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