Applying for Citizenship before going to INDIA

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I am planning to Apply for my Citizenship (N400) on March 6 (90 days prior to 5 year completion). I have been asked to take up a job in India for the same American firm.

Here is what i am planning

1. Give FP before end of March and leave to India
2. Fly back to US for interview and hopefully stay till oath
3. Take Indian work Visa and leave

Will I have any problem during interview?

Also, my wife and kids moved to India 6 months back

Also, should i have to keep my apartment and pay rent during this period?

Should I have to apply for N-470 just in case?

Need u'r help.

Thanks
 
vkums said:
I am planning to Apply for my Citizenship (N400) on March 6 (90 days prior to 5 year completion). I have been asked to take up a job in India for the same American firm.

Here is what i am planning

1. Give FP before end of March and leave to India
2. Fly back to US for interview and hopefully stay till oath
3. Take Indian work Visa and leave

Will I have any problem during interview?

Also, my wife and kids moved to India 6 months back

Also, should i have to keep my apartment and pay rent during this period?

Should I have to apply for N-470 just in case?

Need u'r help.

Thanks
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If you do not take the job in India before your naturalization you should be fine. How about your wife and kids? Did they abandon their greencard status?
 
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Kids are US citizens. Wife is planning to keep her Indian citizenship. I have been asked to take the job in India by Feb, I asked for 2 month extension. I do not think i can extend it any further
 
vkums said:
Kids are US citizens. Wife is planning to keep her Indian citizenship. I have been asked to take the job in India by Feb, I asked for 2 month extension. I do not think i can extend it any further
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You will be under oath during the interview and the question may come up if you took the job in India on a temporarily basis. You will have taken that job while being a permanent resident, so that might cause some problem.
 
It is an US company. If i apply for N-470, will that help? Or do you think I might be making it worse.
 
vkums said:
It is an US company. If i apply for N-470, will that help? Or do you think I might be making it worse.
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The N-470 is highly important in your case. Without it, the job in India combined with your family being in India is likely to result in denial for breaking continuous residence.

Since GC approval, have you spent any 12 consecutive months in the US without traveling abroad? That is one important condition for N-470 eligibility.

I also suggest applying for a reentry permit. If the N-470 is denied and you can't get US citizenship, at least the permit leaves open the possibility to preserve your green card and return to the US a couple years from now.
 
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Jackolantern said:
The N-470 is highly important in your case. Without it, the job in India combined with your family being in India is likely to result in denial for breaking continuous residence.

Since GC approval, have you spent any 12 consecutive months in the US without traveling abroad? That is one important condition for N-470 eligibility.

I also suggest applying for a reentry permit. If the N-470 is denied and you can't get US citizenship, at least the permit leaves open the possibility to preserve your green card and return to the US a couple years from now.
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No, I have spent 140 days overall outside the country since I received my GC. The longest stay was for 56 days.

for N-470, any suggestion on what i can state for "Explain the position of employment that requires your absence from the US and the intended length of employment"


osheth said:
Are they going to pay you US salary or in other words, would you be under US payroll ?
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No, they are not going to pay US salary. I will be in India Payroll
 
vkums said:
No, I have spent 140 days overall outside the country since I received my GC. The longest stay was for 56 days.
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OK, but that doesn't answer the question of whether there exists any 12-month stretch of time since GC approval when you stayed inside the US without leaving once in those 12 months (doesn't have to be a particular calendar year, it can be any 12 consecutive months, even starting mid-month, e.g. Apr 12, 2008 to April 11, 2009).

If you don't have an unbroken 1-year stretch spent inside the US as a permanent resident, you're not eligible for the N-470.
 
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Jackolantern said:
OK, but that doesn't answer the question of whether there exists any 12-month stretch of time since GC approval when you stayed inside the US without leaving once in those 12 months (doesn't have to be a particular calendar year, it can be any 12 consecutive months, even starting mid-month, e.g. Apr 12, 2008 to April 11, 2009).

If you don't have an unbroken 1-year stretch spent inside the US as a permanent resident, you're not eligible for the N-470.
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Yes, I did stay 12 month in a stretch in US since I received my GC
 
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