Is Overseas Address Reqd on N-400 ?

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JMD71

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Hi Friends,

I was out of the country for 5 months after getting my GC. I am now eligible to apply for the US Citizenship. My only concern is that should I disclose my overseas address on N-400 during the time I was outside the united states however there was another address of correspondenece in the US and is in fact on file with INS when I left for my overseas trip OR should I mention both of my address i.e. overseas and US address(which is my friend's apartment) for the time period when I was outside the united states??

Kindly shed some light on it.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Best Regards,
JMD71
 
JMD71 said:
Hi Friends,

I was out of the country for 5 months after getting my GC. I am now eligible to apply for the US Citizenship. My only concern is that should I disclose my overseas address on N-400 during the time I was outside the united states however there was another address of correspondenece in the US and is in fact on file with INS when I left for my overseas trip OR should I mention both of my address i.e. overseas and US address(which is my friend's apartment) for the time period when I was outside the united states??

Kindly shed some light on it.

Thanks for your help in advance.

Best Regards,
JMD71
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You need to list the addresses where you have lived during the past 5 years, not the addresses where your mail was sent. If you lived abroad then that's the address you need to mention.

Sam
 
What if a person is going on a temporay visit abroad for a month or so on a pleasure trip? Does a person need to file the foreign address in this case for that month?
 
coolguy446 said:
What if a person is going on a temporay visit abroad for a month or so on a pleasure trip? Does a person need to file the foreign address in this case for that month?
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Temporary visits do not constitute change of residence and therefore need not be listed. The OP need not list the overseas address as it was only a temporary visit and he did not change his residence. In fact if he did change his residence (without reentry permit), he would have abandoned his GC.
 
mpotturi said:
Temporary visits do not constitute change of residence and therefore need not be listed. The OP need not list the overseas address as it was only a temporary visit and he did not change his residence. In fact if he did change his residence (without reentry permit), he would have abandoned his GC.
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Whoa! Wait a minute.

It all depends on whether the OP 'stayed' or 'lived' abroad, and as I've noted earlier on this forum - that covers both intent and length of stay. Considering that he was abroad for 5 months unless it was a very long vacation he was living there and he needs to list it. 'Visits' are different from 'living' - the former does not need to be mentioned as you've written above, whereas the latter definitely does.

Let's say you take a college course in Europe for 1 semester typically 14 weeks. You will live there for the duration of the course and you don't need a reentry permit. A temporary change of residence does not constitute abandoning permanent residence in the United States.

As for coolguy446's question - a temporary visit by it's very definition is not a change of residence (i.e. does not constitute 'living' abroad) and does not need to be mentioned.

Sam
 
Hi there!

Here is what I did:

I got a reentry permit in Feb of 2000, left the U.S. came back for about a month or so later in 2000, did not come back to the U.S. at all in 2001.

I reentered the U.S. with my reentry permit in Jan. of 2002. I applied for naturalization 4 years and 1 day after my reentry in Jan. of 2002.

I had applied for my reentry permit to finish my Master's Degree in Germany. As I was gone more than one year, I listed my German address under "where have you lived in the past five years".

I do not expect any problems because of that come next Tuesday.

Cheers,

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