Continuous residence for citizenship applicant through marriage

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yeejo

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1/ Will I have to prove my continuous residence going back way before the 3 years that are required when applying for citizenship through marriage? or just during the last 3 years?

2/ Do I have to prove that, during my 3 years, I have continuous residence for half of it (at least 1 year and a half)? With no more than 6 months in a raw abroad? or is it no more than 1 year in a row abroad?

Thanks
 
You have to prove continuous residence only for 3 years. However, do note that there is a difference between presence and continuous residence. Continuous residence implies maintaining residential ties such as housing even when you were abroad.

Physical Presence is what is half of your statutory period (half of 3 years).
Continuous residence is living in US continuously without major breaks. The law says that any trip longer than 6 months can be questioned. And any trip longer than automatically breaks the continuous residence. However, there are borderline cases where one absence of 6+ months may not even be questioned, but 2 back to back absences of 5 months each could be. It depends on the overall pattern of residence in US.
 
How do you calculate the starting point of the 3 years to determine continuous residency? the day I send my application and 3 years back or the day I send my application + 90 days and 3 years back after those 90 days?
 
yeejo said:
How do you calculate the starting point of the 3 years to determine continuous residency? the day I send my application and 3 years back or the day I send my application + 90 days and 3 years back after those 90 days?
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Stop creating multiple thread for your questions, a single thread you created can be used and you can ask and receive answer all your questions there. Stop it already...
 
yeejo said:
How do you calculate the starting point of the 3 years to determine continuous residency? the day I send my application and 3 years back or the day I send my application + 90 days and 3 years back after those 90 days?
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Count 3 years back from the day you apply. However, they allow you to have up to 90 days after application submission counted towards the 3-year requirement. So you can apply as early as 3 years minus 90 days, but you still must complete the 3 full years of continuous residence by the oath date.

Note that the 90-day headstart does not apply to the 3 years of marriage. On the day you apply, you must have at least full 3 years of marriage to a US citizen, who has held US citizenship for those entire 3 years.
 
Jackolantern said:
Count 3 years back from the day you apply. However, they allow you to have up to 90 days after application submission counted towards the 3-year requirement. So you can apply as early as 3 years minus 90 days, but you still must complete the 3 full years of continuous residence by the oath date.

Note that the 90-day headstart does not apply to the 3 years of marriage. On the day you apply, you must have at least full 3 years of marriage to a US citizen, who has held US citizenship for those entire 3 years.
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Thanks for the advice. And how about the 3 months of residence at the same adress, city and state? Do I have to wait so the 3 months have been completed and then apply? Or can I send my application before?
 
yeejo said:
Thanks for the advice. And how about the 3 months of residence at the same adress, city and state? Do I have to wait so the 3 months have been completed and then apply? Or can I send my application before?
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Depends. When did you move to your current address? If it was less than 3 months ago, was your previous address in another state?
 
Yes, my previous address was in another state. And I moved less than 3 months ago.
 
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