Moving abroad

netuser00

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I am applying for the citizenship. After that, I am planning to move to broad for 3 years or so. If my family moves first while I stay until I get the citizenship, would it negatively affect my application result? I read somewhere that if the officer believes that you don't plan to stay in US, he/she may not approve the application. Is that true?
 
If you applying for yourself and plan to be in US during the proecss (satisfy all residency requirements) till your application is approved, it should not be any problem.
 
netuser00 said:
I am applying for the citizenship. After that, I am planning to move to broad for 3 years or so. If my family moves first while I stay until I get the citizenship, would it negatively affect my application result? I read somewhere that if the officer believes that you don't plan to stay in US, he/she may not approve the application. Is that true?

and how would the officer know you do not plan to stay in US?
 
ocworker said:
and how would the officer know you do not plan to stay in US?

If I quit my job now and he asks me if I have a job...

If my family (and even I) have moved abroad and he asks me where is my family...
 
JoeF said:
As long as you are a PR, you of course have to fulfill all the requirements for that.
Once you are a citizen, you can leave and never come back to the US. There used to be a law that if you moved out of the US in the first year of becoming a citizen, they could withdraw the granting of citizenship, but that was repealed in 1994.
See http://www.richw.org/dualcit/faq.html#moveabroad

1. I know that once I am a citizen, I can move out the country as long as I want.

2. I have been a PR for 5 years (09/2005 is my 5 year mark) and I total fulfill all the requirements - never out of US for more than 4 weeks in total each year. So does it mean that even if I move now and only come back for interview and oath, it should not affect my application?
 
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