When one can apply for citizenship at earliest and selective services?

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If someone (male) entered in USA on non immigrant visa before age 26 and got GC after age 26, does that person has to register with selective services?

On page 55 of form N476 say that
*Naturalization applicants may file their applications 90 days before they have satisfied the “continuous residence” requirement.

Does that mean if I got GC on Dec 1st 2005, can apply for citizenship on Sept. 1st 2010?
 
anonymous12 said:
If someone (male) entered in USA on non immigrant visa before age 26 and got GC after age 26, does that person has to register with selective services?

On page 55 of form N476 say that
*Naturalization applicants may file their applications 90 days before they have satisfied the “continuous residence” requirement.

Does that mean if I got GC on Dec 1st 2005, can apply for citizenship on Sept. 1st 2010?
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Maybe/No and No (Count back 90 days from Dec 1st. The grace period is 90 days, not 3 months).

You need to keep non-immigrant status until your 26th birthday, so if you entered on a non-immigrant visa but went out of status for a bit, you have to file for selective services.
The actual details are more complicated, but if you were on H-1/L-1 and maintained that status until your 26th birthday, you don't have to file for selective services.
 
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Thanks GungaDin: Never been out of status. I have seen few threads and what kind of RFE people are getting with citizenship application. Do one need to send any documents along with N400 application? I read briefly instructions and my guess is not?

Technical question. When you say 90 days, does your approval day is included in that 90 day or just 90 behind that date?
 
anonymous12 said:
Technical question. When you say 90 days, does your approval day is included in that 90 day or just 90 behind that date?
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It's based on counting the date difference. So if your approval date is July 30, 10 days before would be July 20, 20 days before would be July 10, and so on.

Apparently you're trying to time it to the exact 90th day. Don't do that. USCIS sometimes miscounts by 1 or 2 days, and they (wrongly) reject people for applying on the 89th or 90th day. So those people end up wasting weeks because they're trying to save a day or two. Wait a few days extra so those borderline calculations and USCIS miscounting won't matter. A simple formula is just look 3 months back from the anniversary date, and then add a week. That will be somewhere between 83 days and 86 days, depending on which months are involved, but it's enough of a buffer to protect yourself from the exact details of how USCIS counts or miscounts.
 
There is a debate here whether one should register selective service during I-485 pending stage if he is under 26 but no other visa
or H1B visa automatically terminated becaose one use EAD or Advanced Parole
 
WBH said:
There is a debate here whether one should register selective service during I-485 pending stage if he is under 26 but no other visa
or H1B visa automatically terminated becaose one use EAD or Advanced Parole
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If you use your EAD/AP you lose non-immigrant status and so need to register with Selective Services.
Perhaps there is a debate because USCIS enforces this like it enforces declaring minor traffic citations (i.e. depends on the IO)
 
Thanks guys. It has been a while I have been to this forum.

I filed my GC after age 26 and until age 26 I kept my non-immigrant visa status so selective services do not apply to me. Thanks for sharing this information.

Q1. Any does one to send any documents along with N400 forms or only need to prepare documents for interview?
 
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