Hi,
I have been reading posts regarding being outside US for more than 6 months and being still eligilbe for the naturalization (in 5 year case). I am still a bit confused, so I would really appreciate if somebody could help me out.
My situation:
I got my green card on in March 2006. Since then, I have been 4 times outside the US, for vacation only and not more than 3 weeks at a time. So, if I understood correctly from the 'literature', I have continuous residence of 1 and 1/2 year so far.
The plan is to join my partner for a sabatical time from fall 2008 till summer2009 for about 10 months. At the moment it is not clear whether I would be working abroad (Europe) as it might be too complicated to obtain working permit.
Nevertheless, I would keep my US address, pay my phone bill, car insurance, credit cards etc. Of course, I would file the US taxes as I would be working in US part of 2008 and hopefully in 2009 (once I am back to US).
My question is whether this break of 10 months will disrupt my continous residence.
Second question is what I need to do in order to keep my Permanent Resident status while being away from US for 10 months.
Thank you very much!
I have been reading posts regarding being outside US for more than 6 months and being still eligilbe for the naturalization (in 5 year case). I am still a bit confused, so I would really appreciate if somebody could help me out.
My situation:
I got my green card on in March 2006. Since then, I have been 4 times outside the US, for vacation only and not more than 3 weeks at a time. So, if I understood correctly from the 'literature', I have continuous residence of 1 and 1/2 year so far.
The plan is to join my partner for a sabatical time from fall 2008 till summer2009 for about 10 months. At the moment it is not clear whether I would be working abroad (Europe) as it might be too complicated to obtain working permit.
Nevertheless, I would keep my US address, pay my phone bill, car insurance, credit cards etc. Of course, I would file the US taxes as I would be working in US part of 2008 and hopefully in 2009 (once I am back to US).
My question is whether this break of 10 months will disrupt my continous residence.
Second question is what I need to do in order to keep my Permanent Resident status while being away from US for 10 months.
Thank you very much!