Eligibility for Citizenship

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Pungiwalla

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Residence and Physical Presence

An applicant is eligible to file if, immediately preceding the filing of the application, he or she:

has been lawfully admitted for permanent residence (see preceding section);
has resided continuously as a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. for at least 5 years prior to filing with no single absence from the United States of more than one year;
has been physically present in the United States for at least 30 months out of the previous five years (absences of more than six months but less than one year shall disrupt the applicant's continuity of residence unless the applicant can establish that he or she did not abandon his or her residence during such period)
has resided within a state or district for at least three months


Above verbatim is from USCIS.gov website.

My questions are,

1. If I physically resided in US for 30 months, obtained REP for 2 yrs, returned to my home country, and kept visiting United States once a year and before I file my application for naturlaization, live in US for 3 months. Will I be fulfilling the naturlization eligibilty requirement?

2. If I have physically lived in US for 30 months after recipt of greecard and need to go back to home country for 2 yrs or so How can I still be eligible to apply for USC.

Can someone give me some ideas? Has anyone gone through similar situation?
 
Did you maintain a residence here? Did you file US tax returns?

Multiple absences of >6mo could be a problem. Be prepared to prove your commitment to living in the US.
 
yes, I will have the residential address for the two yrs that I'm going to be physically absent. Also I will be filling taxes for those 2 yrs and will be continuing credit cards, bank accounts etc etc.
 
how long would you stay when you visited to US once a year?

you have to be living in US for 30 months in past 5 yrs before you apply naturalization; AND

you can't be out of the country > 6 moths on a single trip.


since you get your return entry permit, if you are out to US completely > 2 yrs, the last 365-1 days would count as your residence in US.

it is complicate to explain. have you gone to USCIS to check out the user guide?
 
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