Change of address issue----URGENT!!!!!!

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kaolack

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Good afternoon to all,

I have a quick question. A friend of mine is about to send his N-400 to Baltimore. He lived in Virginia, but now lives in Silver Spring (Maryland). He moved to Maryland almost 4 years ago. Should he notify BCIS of his change of address now or should he just let them figure it out? The fact that Virginia and Maryland share the same Service Center (VERMONT), is it necessary for him to do a change of address? What would be the best approach? A quick answer is apprectiated because he plans to send it next week.

Thanks for your help and I look forward to your answers.

KAOLACK.
 
kaolack said:
Good afternoon to all,

I have a quick question. A friend of mine is about to send his N-400 to Baltimore. He lived in Virginia, but now lives in Silver Spring (Maryland). He moved to Maryland almost 4 years ago. Should he notify BCIS of his change of address now or should he just let them figure it out? The fact that Virginia and Maryland share the same Service Center (VERMONT), is it necessary for him to do a change of address? What would be the best approach? A quick answer is apprectiated because he plans to send it next week.

Thanks for your help and I look forward to your answers.

KAOLACK.
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Go ahead and just send the application. It is highly unlikely that your friend is going to be questioned on the change of address.
 
talkative said:
As a permanent resident, he was supposed to send AR-11 within 10 days of the move!

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I do not dispute that. All I am saying is that there is no sense to frantically send the AR-11 just because the person is applying for citizenship.
 
talkative said:
As a permanent resident, he was supposed to send AR-11 within 10 days of the move!

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Theoretically, yes. But I agree with Myxomop. Just send in the application. That's what I did and I got my citizenship already. There is no point of doing the COA after 4 years.
 
Four years this wasn't such a big deal. This obviously changed 3.5 years ago and that would have been the opportune time to remedy this. I wouldn't do it now either. If it comes up at the interview, be truthful and hope they accept the explanation that "at the time, this requirement wasn't widely known and communicated like happened in the immediate aftermath of 9/11/01."
 
As per one of the immigration law-everytime an immigrant moves around, s/he needs to report his/her 'change of address' to USCIS on Form-AR-11 within 10 days of moving. Failure to do so may result in fine, or most probably a deportation from the United States, or both.

If someone hasn't reported a 'chagne of Address' to USCIS as of yet despite of moving somewhere else a long time ago, yet still such person should/must send form AR-11 immediately about reporting his/her 'change of address', no matter what. At least, this way this person would eventually be following a crucial law than not caring about this law at all. A complete disregard of this law, MAY cause an immigrant to be deported.

However, the 'processing of N-400' and 'failure to report a change of address' has no relevancy to each other. The interviewing officer on N-400 will NEVER know or the officer will NEVER ask the applicant about whether or not a change of address was previously reported by the applicant to USCIS, or if it was not reported then why not? During the adjudication of N-400, officers are ONLY concerned to the eligibilities of applicant for a naturalization. And, the 'change of address' is required to keep only the whereabout of an immigrant in the United States than anything else. Hence, failure to report a change of address surely won't cause any problem as far as N-400 is concerned.
 
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