im trying to find it in papers....but th only thing i found is :" violating the georgia controlled substances act" , "misdeminor loitering"
and as immigration wrote in denial of citizneship, i will be eligible to apply for citizenship in 2012, so i assume they counted 5 years since the conviction for loitering. My bigest concern is my recent public intoxication....
By itself, your latest public intoxication arrest (by the way, have you been convicted for that? have you admitted guilt by paying a ticket?) is not a sufficiently big issue to cause a problem with the green card renewal.
However, in the context of your overall criminal record it may be a problem, depending on the particulars.
I think you need to talk to an immigration lawyer before filing for GC renewal to understand your situation better and to have a better idea of the risk involved.
During a GC renewal they do run a background criminal check, where, presumably, your arrest/conviction record will come up.
It'd be good to find out (and you do need to talk to an immigration lawyer for that) if your drug loitering conviction is a deportable offense.
The fact that your N-400 was denied but they did not initiate deportation proceedings at the time does not imply that your drug loitering conviction is not deportable.
The IO adjudicating an N-400 application has wide discretion in such cases: often they approve N-400 applications even if the applicant is technically deportable (e.g. it applies to people who registered to vote by mistake or misunderstanding); even if the case is denied and there is an underlying deportable offense, the IO who adjudicated the N-400 application does not have to forward the case to ICE for deportation proceedings - and often the IO's don't do that.
If your 2007 drug loitering conviction is a deportable offense, then, when you apply for a GC renewal, the adjudicating officer for your I-90 application will look at your file again and make a decision about whether to renew the GC or to initiate deportation proceedings; the fact that you had a subsequent arrest (your recent public intoxication arrest) would not be a positive factor in this regard.
You'd also have to check if you might be deportable under a different provision, namely USC 8.12.II.IV.1227(a)(2)(A)(ii):
"(ii) Multiple criminal convictions Any alien who at any time after admission is convicted of two or more crimes involving moral turpitude, not arising out of a single scheme of criminal misconduct, regardless of whether confined therefor and regardless of whether the convictions were in a single trial, is deportable. "
I think that public intoxication is not considered to be a crime involving moral turpitude, but ultimately it depends on the specific language used in the statute under which you were convicted.
So, as I said, talking to an immigration lawyer is a good idea in your case.
