Do I qualify for "continuous residence" for applying US citizenship?

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star100

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Hi all,

I have had my green card for 6 years now and I want to apply for the US citizenship.
There is a section where I need to enter all the trips that I have made in the last 5 years.

The problem is the following. Because of family reasons I travel to Spain every 2.5 or 3 months. Once I'm there I stay for 1 month. In summary, I spend in the US between 8-9 months every year.

While I'm there I'm still working for my US company because I'm a software engineer and I am able telecommute from there.
Since I've traveled a lot it's impossible to find out the exact dates of my trips.

What should I do? Should this be a problem?

Thanks a lot for your help

Cheers
 
star100 said:
Hi all,

I have had my green card for 6 years now and I want to apply for the US citizenship.
There is a section where I need to enter all the trips that I have made in the last 5 years.

The problem is the following. Because of family reasons I travel to Spain every 2.5 or 3 months. Once I'm there I stay for 1 month. In summary, I spend in the US between 8-9 months every year.

While I'm there I'm still working for my US company because I'm a software engineer and I am able telecommute from there.
Since I've traveled a lot it's impossible to find out the exact dates of my trips.

What should I do? Should this be a problem?

Thanks a lot for your help

Cheers
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US and Spain customs date-stamp your passport each time you enter/exit the country. You should be able to calculate your total number of days out for each trip using the stamps dates.

By the way, the above is for figuring out if you satisfy the physical presence requirement and NOT continuous residence. I think you're ok as far as contiuous residence since you don't have any trips abroad that lasted 6 months or longer.
 
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I don't think EU countries stamp EU passports at all.
It never happened to me in various EU countries when flying from the US (Italy, France, Netherlands, UK, Germany, Sweden). Not a single stamp.
I had to go by memory and by tracking e-tickets in the email.
 
star100 said:
Hi all,

I have had my green card for 6 years now and I want to apply for the US citizenship.
There is a section where I need to enter all the trips that I have made in the last 5 years.

The problem is the following. Because of family reasons I travel to Spain every 2.5 or 3 months. Once I'm there I stay for 1 month. In summary, I spend in the US between 8-9 months every year.

While I'm there I'm still working for my US company because I'm a software engineer and I am able telecommute from there.
Since I've traveled a lot it's impossible to find out the exact dates of my trips.

What should I do? Should this be a problem?

Thanks a lot for your help

Cheers
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Try to determine your travel dates at least by month and year. If you can't, try looking for old receipts or statements that would give you an idea when you traveled.
 
Thanks for your replies.

sarrebal is right. EU countries don't stamp EU passports.
I only get a stamp when I get into the US.
 
Bobsmyth said:
Try to determine your travel dates at least by month and year. If you can't, try looking for old receipts or statements that would give you an idea when you traveled.
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So it should be ok if I my dates are approximate, right?

Maybe I should include all the exact dates when I came back to the US (as I said, I have that in my passport) and mention that most of my trips were about 3-4 weeks.


Thanks
 
star100 said:
Thanks for your replies.

sarrebal is right. EU countries don't stamp EU passports.
I only get a stamp when I get into the US.
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You've mentioned that your stays aborad have always been around 1 month. So subtract one month from the US stamp date, this should tell you roughly your departure date from the USA. You've been a LPR for 6 years so I think you should still be safe if your calculation is off by a few days.
 
star100 said:
So it should be ok if I my dates are approximate, right?

Maybe I should include all the exact dates when I came back to the US (as I said, I have that in my passport) and mention that most of my trips were about 3-4 weeks.


Thanks
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If you have the stamps in passport you can back track 1 month as the departure month. For example, if your passport is stamped June 3, 2005 and you know your trips were no longer than 1 month each, your travel entry on application would be 5/2005-6/2005. Exact dates are not an issue in your case since continuous residency does not come into question.
 
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