metaphor_1
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My case is similar to what many have posted here. My wife and I both work for a US based multinational, and they asked us both to travel abroad to another country (not my home country) to help out on a project for 3 months. We locked up our house and left on a 3 month visa.
But unfortunately, circumstances beyond everyone's control (severe employee attrition, floundering project) resulted in the company asking us to stay longer. We came back to the US after 170 days or so, and then after a week we were asked to go again. This time we got back after about 140 days or so .. things getting better. And then a 3 week stay, before we went again and came back for good. All in all, we have spent about 450 days outside the US during our 5 years with a Green Card (most of it during this trip).
During this entire 14 month stay outside the US (punctuated by 3 trips back), we had our house locked up; continued to pay utility bills (electricity, water, telephone, cellphone, minimal satellite TV) here; and kept extending our visas a few months at a time at the country we were working in. And oh, we continued to be US based employees who were paid in the US, and we filed taxes like normal.
Our company is willing to give us a letter stating that the stay outside was due to circumstances beyond our control and that we stayed because we were asked to. Any recommendations on how this letter should be worded? What are the pertinent details that this letter should contain? Any help would be much appreciated.
Also, any recommendations on additional documentation that we should prepare?
By the way, this is our timeline: We belong to Miami District Office, TSC.
N-400 Application mailed: Jan 6, 2007.
Priority Date: Jan 8, 2007.
Fingerprint Notice Received: Jan 23, 2007.
Fingerprinting Done: Jan 27, 2007.
I do realize it is early days yet, but I want to start gathering documentation as early as I can.
Thanks.
But unfortunately, circumstances beyond everyone's control (severe employee attrition, floundering project) resulted in the company asking us to stay longer. We came back to the US after 170 days or so, and then after a week we were asked to go again. This time we got back after about 140 days or so .. things getting better. And then a 3 week stay, before we went again and came back for good. All in all, we have spent about 450 days outside the US during our 5 years with a Green Card (most of it during this trip).
During this entire 14 month stay outside the US (punctuated by 3 trips back), we had our house locked up; continued to pay utility bills (electricity, water, telephone, cellphone, minimal satellite TV) here; and kept extending our visas a few months at a time at the country we were working in. And oh, we continued to be US based employees who were paid in the US, and we filed taxes like normal.
Our company is willing to give us a letter stating that the stay outside was due to circumstances beyond our control and that we stayed because we were asked to. Any recommendations on how this letter should be worded? What are the pertinent details that this letter should contain? Any help would be much appreciated.
Also, any recommendations on additional documentation that we should prepare?
By the way, this is our timeline: We belong to Miami District Office, TSC.
N-400 Application mailed: Jan 6, 2007.
Priority Date: Jan 8, 2007.
Fingerprint Notice Received: Jan 23, 2007.
Fingerprinting Done: Jan 27, 2007.
I do realize it is early days yet, but I want to start gathering documentation as early as I can.
Thanks.