PraetorianXI
Banned
KLMASTERS
but then again even if you were to become a US citizen right away.... conditions apply after citizenship.
what conditions are you talking about?
KLMASTERS
but then again even if you were to become a US citizen right away.... conditions apply after citizenship.
In order to ensure retention of U.S. citizenship, U.S. citizens may wish to assert their citizenship status by actions confirming a continuing intent to retain U.S. citizenship. These could involve a contemporaneous written statement confirming the citizen's desire to retain U.S. citizenship, submitted to a U.S. consulate or the DOS. The U.S. citizen should also continue paying U.S. income taxes, obtaining U.S. passports, and maintaining retaining property and other ties to the United States after the expatriating act takes place to evidence an intention not to relinquish citizenship. However, as stated in the DOS policy statement, such action is not necessary where the presumption applies.
I believe that if the US Govt can prove that you acquired US Citizenship with intent and purpose of living outside the US, they can start proceedings to revoke the citizenship.- I also believe that the first year of US Citizenship you have to stay put, meaning not living permanently elsewhere outside of the US.-
If you are going to take the time to remove the conditions with a I 751 and go for the LPR you might as well file for the N 400 right away
contract work abroad may be considered temporary for purposes of having maintained domicile
As an LPR, you are allowed to be temporarily resident outside the US, providing you also have ties to the US. No one's questioning that, only that USCIS is unlikely to consider your situation to be a temporary absence.
The USCIS test for a trip to be "temporary" in nature, requires the person taking the trip to be able to prove knowledge of their return date prior to departure. This doesn't have to be absolute and set in stone, but it definitely can't involve anything open ended.
remember the US is your first best hope NOT your last best hope.
For the reapplying for a GC issue - what happens when a US citizen marries abroad then decides to move back to the US with his/her wife? How is that dealt with? It must happen... In fact I can think of a famous example - Bill Bryson - who moved from the UK to the US with his British wife and children after living in the UK for 20 years.