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That is interesting. Is withdrawing a pending application viewed as a "negative mark" on one's long-term record with the USCIS?

All: Thanks for your assistance. After discussing the options with my wife, we decided to just go and relinquish her residency. It is unfortunate: Had we done our research earlier, she would be a citizen now. But our lives are too stressful to split up for months, wait in USCIS, etc. We may be...

Adding this RE: short trips. I am to begin a 9 month Fulbright program in her country on Sept 1. Our local offices are reporting a 7 month processing time on the 400 form. If we stay here until Aug 31, then to get country, and then she returns for the interview and (hopefully) oath about 4...

Thanks for the notes. Possibly so. What are "short trips"? I now see that she was given permanent (conditional?) residency in April 2003, and conditions were lifted in April 2005. She qualified for the 3 years in 2006 and the 5 years in 2008.

She could have applied for citizenship back in 2006 or so but we were (wrongly) concerned that she would lose her original citizenship. Now, we wish to leave the US within a couple months. Although we do not have specific plans to return, we would like to have the option. We are now very much...

I am a US citizen. My wife came on a fiancee visa from a western European country. She is a permanent resident (as of 2005), and we have now a dual-citizen son. We plan to move to her home country for an unknown length of time. My understanding is that if she is out of the US for year, then her...