Employment based Vs. Marriage based citizenship

[vcpat]

Wife's green card application was dependent on mine. She filed and got her citizenship. I am yet to file for citizenship. Instead of filing employment based citizenship now if I file citizenship based on her citizenship later (after 3 years) will it cause any issues?

Thanks
-vcpat

 

[Bobsmyth]

Wife's green card application was dependent on mine. She filed and got her citizenship. I am yet to file for citizenship. Instead of filing employment based citizenship now if I file citizenship based on her citizenship later (after 3 years) will it cause any issues?

Thanks
-vcpat

If you don't qualify now under 5 year rule (due to continuous residence or something else) you can apply under 3 year rule in 3 years instead. You'll still have to meet basic requirements of 3 year rule when you are ready to apply.

 

[Huracan]

It would be good if you could clarify why you think applying based on marriage works better for you. Anyway, be aware that the 3 year rule has a little catch, which is you have to be married to the US citizen for 3 full years (not 3 minus 90 days). That means you still have to wait for 3 years after your wife got her citizenship. If you throw some dates around (when your wife got citizenship, any long trips for you, we might be able to give a better opinion).

 

[vcpat]

Thanks

Due to some issues I prefer marriage based.
The thing that I am trying to get answer is,

If wife's GC application was dependent on mine then can I file my Citizenship based (dependent) on her Citizenship or will that raise some issues during my Citizenship processing?

-vcpat

 

[Bobsmyth]

Due to some issues I prefer marriage based.
The thing that I am trying to get answer is,

If wife's GC application was dependent on mine then can I file my Citizenship based (dependent) on her Citizenship or will that raise some issues during my Citizenship processing?

-vcpat

Why should it raise any issues? She's a US citizen and that is what counts for 3 year rule. The fact that her GC was derivative of yours does not affect your eligibility for naturalization.

 

[Jackolantern]

Instead of filing employment based citizenship now if I file citizenship based on her citizenship later (after 3 years) will it cause any issues?

There is no employment-based citizenship, unless you are in the military. For non-military people there is the regular 5 year citizenship, and the 3-year marriage-based citizenship.

Due to some issues I prefer marriage based.

Those must be some very strange issues, to make it worth it for you to wait 3 years after your wife's naturalization instead of applying in the near future with the 5-year rule. If there are issues surrounding how you obtained your green card, applying for marriage-based citizenship doesn't erase those issues. They are free to investigate the circumstances surrounding your green card process, regardless of what type of citizenship process you choose to pursue.