JohnnyCash
Volunteer Moderator
OP should go in person to local DO by making an appointment online and submit a written letter to withdraw his application for naturalization, which he can do so since he is not a US citizen yet. However, it must take a received/acknowledge stamp on his copy of the same request.
He can do the same for his green card before leaving the country for good as LPR or do it at US consulate at aborad. If OP doesn't want to become a US citizen and is looking to stay at abroad for more than a year then he doesn't need to abandon his LPR; rather he could stay at abroad up to 2 yrs by obtaining a re-entry permit in advance...which will give him time to see/evualate his life in India to decide a firm decision if he would still continue to live in India for good....because if he ever changes his mind again...like he has done here after going all way up for naturalization but changed his mind at last moment....then at least he would have an opportunity to return back to America as LPR...than losing everything whatever he has worked for in gaining his LPR status.
On the side note...as a continuation of my earlier posting, I read a case a few months back on New York Times about a much aged naturalized citizen who was caught having consenual sexual relationship with a 13 yrs old girl in Italy. Italian court freed him with 6 month probation, but he got arrested at the airport upon coming for this crime and prosecuted here...got convicted under the law that President Bush signed in 2005/2006 that has sent him to prison for 35 yrs. He cursed the day when he decided to be a US citizen. I don't know he will ever see the sun as a free man because by the time he will come out..he might be dead...because he is already in his late 50s or early 60s. If he were not a US citizen, he would have been living and enjoying his life as a free man. By telling this true story, I no mean to say that people shouldn't pay for the crime they do...but I thought I should point it out that US citizenship comes with responsibilities and obligations...and sometime tougher ones....
He can do the same for his green card before leaving the country for good as LPR or do it at US consulate at aborad. If OP doesn't want to become a US citizen and is looking to stay at abroad for more than a year then he doesn't need to abandon his LPR; rather he could stay at abroad up to 2 yrs by obtaining a re-entry permit in advance...which will give him time to see/evualate his life in India to decide a firm decision if he would still continue to live in India for good....because if he ever changes his mind again...like he has done here after going all way up for naturalization but changed his mind at last moment....then at least he would have an opportunity to return back to America as LPR...than losing everything whatever he has worked for in gaining his LPR status.
On the side note...as a continuation of my earlier posting, I read a case a few months back on New York Times about a much aged naturalized citizen who was caught having consenual sexual relationship with a 13 yrs old girl in Italy. Italian court freed him with 6 month probation, but he got arrested at the airport upon coming for this crime and prosecuted here...got convicted under the law that President Bush signed in 2005/2006 that has sent him to prison for 35 yrs. He cursed the day when he decided to be a US citizen. I don't know he will ever see the sun as a free man because by the time he will come out..he might be dead...because he is already in his late 50s or early 60s. If he were not a US citizen, he would have been living and enjoying his life as a free man. By telling this true story, I no mean to say that people shouldn't pay for the crime they do...but I thought I should point it out that US citizenship comes with responsibilities and obligations...and sometime tougher ones....