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Yes, you are a US citizen. However, proving it may not be so straightforward. I know from personal experience, getting Consular Reports of Birth Abroad for my kids, that they're pretty picky about what constitutes proof of residence in the US for purposes of the 5 year/2 year rule. The "best"...

If her student status in the US is in order and she's not working illegally, still don't understand her reluctance. Her Japanese passport means she's visa exempt into Canada and her student status (and actual residence in the US) means she's doing everything by the book. It'll be significantly...

It's not clear to me what happened in paragraph 3. Did you actually get past US immigration and enter the US and this happened on the way back to Canada? Or were you sent to secondary immediately in the car you were importing to Canada (i.e., you drove it into Canada previously and went to the...

Your IO is an idiot. If the ACLU is a communist organization, the US under Bush II was a facist abomination...wait a minute. ;)

If you broke continuous residency, you can apply 4 year + 1 day after you come back and re-establish residency so long as you've had the greencard at least 5 years in total. (Continuous residency being the N-400 requirement and separate from whether or not you abandoned your greencard.)...

Don't stress and fill out the information as clearly as you can. They're not going to reject you for neglecting to write in "N/A" -- if your response is unclear, the interviewer will just ask you about it at the interview. If you find out you made mistakes/typos after you send it in, you can...

May have been an older USCIS officer? Until 1994, there was a one year residency requirement after naturalization.

You had one absence of under 6 months...there's no statutory reason why that would ever be a problem. The issues are absences of between 6 months and 1 year or several back-to-back absences of under 6 months that an interviewer could interpret as one long trip/abandonment. OP is in the latter...

Also, bring proof of the family emergency...maybe get their doctor to sign a letter about what the health issue is and why it's necessary for you to be there.

Agreed. I understand the cases where someone mistakenly thought they were a citizen because of complex child derivative citizenship rules -- and apparently there is a waiver for these types of situations. I also understand someone not speaking English accidentally registering to vote because...

This has been proposed by some Republicans and opposed by Democrats as just another way to limit poor and uneducated citizens from voting (for the Democratic Party). Many Americans don't have a passport because they've never left the country and getting a birth certificate, if you lost the...

For what I've seen on the board, I think studying aboard generally isn't looked at too harshly when determining continuous residency. If the rest of your immediate family (e.g., parents/siblings) lived in the US while you were aboard and your parents paid for your schooling, I think you could...

Fascinating. I didn't know so many people were unaware that you needed to be a citizen to vote. (See below just from the first page of a quick Google search.) I know there are exceptions for local elections etc. (e.g., the UK), but isn't the general rule the world over that one needs to be a...

6/30/09: Got my passport book (separate from Naturalization Certificate). Expedited service took exactly one week. Is it just me or is the US passport oddly garish with all the multi-color graphics on the visa/stamp pages? My old passport looks positively dignified in comparison....

Check on the Life after Citizenship forum: http://forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?t=295461

6/23/09: Applied for PPB at post office, expedited processing 6/29/09: Online status established on travel.state.gov (expedited processing, 2-3 weeks processing time noted)

USCIS collects your greencard at the oath ceremony. Ergo you can't get back into the US without a greencard.

How? If she says her husband's N-400 application and/or her Visa application is in process and in the meanwhile she's visiting him (it maybe helpful to have the return ticket in hand), what part of that is objectionable to USCIS? You can visit family members generally, but not your husband...

Uh, I've been in this country since I was 5 years old and English is effectively my first language. Harda$$ is not profanity in the derogatory sense. It's a colloquial term meaning someone who's rigid, very strict, tough etc. (I think the term you're thinking of is "a$$hole" -- which I did...

The article says there are 6000 cases flagged during the name check that are still pending...what's not to believe? It's not random profiling based on race. The cases that get flagged are those with super common first/last names (e.g., Jose Garcia), which for obvious reasons are more time...