OK, from reading this section of the forum, I had an understanding that we would be eligible to apply for citizenship 4 years 9 months after the date on the GC (in other words 3 years and 9 months after the approval date since the GC's are backdated for one year). The whole backdating it one year business completely made sense to me.
Now out of boredom I ventured to other sections of the forum, like the Citizenship section. There I came across a thread where whether the date on GC or approval date should be take into consideration was being discussed . Here is the thread: http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=205883 . I know that we have different instructions since we are asylees and marriage-based GC holders have different instructions, etc. But the N400 will be the same form everyone will have to fill out , so if the question on the form asks when we were approved and our eligibility is calculated based on that date, then that whole backdating business would have been of no use to us. But I want to believe that we can be eligible based on the date on the GC, in which case some of the posters on that thread who were insisting that the date on the GC must be ignored are not being entirely correct. I mean if the date on the GC was meaningless for the citizenship eligibility, why backdating it one year, you know? backdating can only serve a purpose for when we can be eligible for citizenship, therefore I think the date on the GC does have importance.
I know that the threadstarter on that thread maybe indeed had a wrong date on his GC. Probably he was not an asylee like us and the backdating was a mistake on INS' part, but still some of the posters on that thread saying how the date on the GC is irrelevant is not true, right? I want to double check it with you people. The fact that a case can be denied because there was a "mistake" on the date on the GC is reasonable, but our backdated GC's have dates that are NOT mistakes and to say that the dates on the GC's are not to be taken seriously when applying and that the approval date is the one that INS cares about is not true, at least something that should not be generalized like that since for asylees like us that is not true.... Right??? Everyone here(the asylees I mean) will be eligible to apply for citizenship 3 years and 9 months after receiving the GC, right? I did not write on that thread because my question pertains to us, applicants who were asylees, and I wanted to double check this with you guys because some posters on that thread were saying "the date on GC does not matter. The approval date is what matters" in regards to calculating the 5 years.
Now out of boredom I ventured to other sections of the forum, like the Citizenship section. There I came across a thread where whether the date on GC or approval date should be take into consideration was being discussed . Here is the thread: http://www.immigrationportal.com/showthread.php?t=205883 . I know that we have different instructions since we are asylees and marriage-based GC holders have different instructions, etc. But the N400 will be the same form everyone will have to fill out , so if the question on the form asks when we were approved and our eligibility is calculated based on that date, then that whole backdating business would have been of no use to us. But I want to believe that we can be eligible based on the date on the GC, in which case some of the posters on that thread who were insisting that the date on the GC must be ignored are not being entirely correct. I mean if the date on the GC was meaningless for the citizenship eligibility, why backdating it one year, you know? backdating can only serve a purpose for when we can be eligible for citizenship, therefore I think the date on the GC does have importance.
I know that the threadstarter on that thread maybe indeed had a wrong date on his GC. Probably he was not an asylee like us and the backdating was a mistake on INS' part, but still some of the posters on that thread saying how the date on the GC is irrelevant is not true, right? I want to double check it with you people. The fact that a case can be denied because there was a "mistake" on the date on the GC is reasonable, but our backdated GC's have dates that are NOT mistakes and to say that the dates on the GC's are not to be taken seriously when applying and that the approval date is the one that INS cares about is not true, at least something that should not be generalized like that since for asylees like us that is not true.... Right??? Everyone here(the asylees I mean) will be eligible to apply for citizenship 3 years and 9 months after receiving the GC, right? I did not write on that thread because my question pertains to us, applicants who were asylees, and I wanted to double check this with you guys because some posters on that thread were saying "the date on GC does not matter. The approval date is what matters" in regards to calculating the 5 years.
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