3 months residency in district requirement for N400
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The residence is where you pay your taxes, live every average day, as common sense suggests. The fact that you establish your residence for example at 123 Main Street, Anytown (fictitious address) does not mean that you cannot ever leave your house, even to visit neighbors. 
But if you spent all of your time 24/7 at your neighbor's house, maybe the address at 123 Main Street is not really where you reside.
It is the same as for a driver's license: if you get for example a Nevada Driver's license and get your car licenses there, you of course can visit California and Arizona, even New Mexico and Florida. The "line in the sand" would be if your car was stationed 24/7 at an out-of state address and if you spent most of your time at that out-of-state address.
I hope this helps.
Just my (non-professional) 2 cents.
But if you spent all of your time 24/7 at your neighbor's house, maybe the address at 123 Main Street is not really where you reside. It is the same as for a driver's license: if you get for example a Nevada Driver's license and get your car licenses there, you of course can visit California and Arizona, even New Mexico and Florida. The "line in the sand" would be if your car was stationed 24/7 at an out-of state address and if you spent most of your time at that out-of-state address.
I hope this helps.
Just my (non-professional) 2 cents.
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If the temporary address is school address while permanent address is parents' address, the "Guide to Naturalization" (form M-476 on the USCIS website) refers to this by stating that both (parents and school) addresses are OK.
Otherwise, the main residence is where you get utilities delivered, where you pay rent or property taxes. For example a salesperson travelling all 5 business days every week and coming back home only on weekends is deemed to have residence at this address, even if he or she practically spends only weekends there.
Please remember: this is not legal advice.
Otherwise, the main residence is where you get utilities delivered, where you pay rent or property taxes. For example a salesperson travelling all 5 business days every week and coming back home only on weekends is deemed to have residence at this address, even if he or she practically spends only weekends there.
Please remember: this is not legal advice.
The simplistic way of looking at this is that your residence address better be the same address you have on your State Id (drivers license). The 90 day residency requirement simply requires you to have legally resided in the same district for that minimum time period. While you don't have to be physically present there for any of those 90 days, it does need to be your legal domicile, because thats what gives the USCIS DO jurisdiction over your case.