N-400 Clarification

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Toledo

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Hi,

I am eligible to apply for citizenship now (4 years and 9 month completed). Got my GC on March 2009. I have few questions and any help is appreciated.

1. In Dec 2009, police arrived at my residence due to family disturbance and they gave a incident card (as they give for all their visit) marking family disturbance and marked no report taken. They didnt arrest me, no fingerprint taken. They advised and went away. When I checked it through incident tracker, it is marked disposition type as N which means for dispatch record only.

2. I have 4 traffic citation for which I paid fines and the last one I got is around May 2009 (Stop Sign Ticket).

3. My spouse is currently living abroad and visit often using GC. My spouse is not interested in citizenship. What address should I mention in the form for spouse address.

The new N-400 form has space to mention citation / arrest / detention. Should I disclose all the above. What address should I enter for spouse details. Will it affect my citizenship. Please help.

Thank you,
New User
 
1. If you weren't arrested or charged or ticketed or taken to the police station, and didn't go to court over it, don't mention that incident on the N-400.

2. I say you should mention those tickets, some others here say not to mention them if they were all under $500 with no drugs/alcohol/arrest involved.

3. If your spouse has a valid GC, that would mean she's officially a US resident according to US law and you should specify a US address for her. If she usually stays with you when she's in the US, provide your own address.
 
I would suggest you mentioned the traffic incidents especially if you still have/remember the dates/receipts.

I just filed my N400 and mentioned I was cited and they requested I bring original papers (which I don't have) but I was able to pull these tickets from my state's counties web site.
 
Hi Jackolantern,

Can you please clarify what you mean by "ticketed" for #1. They gave me a incident card with no report taken marked in it. Thats all. No court visit, no arrest, no follow up after that.

Thank you.
 
By "ticketed" I mean you had to go to court or file papers with a court to resolve it, or pay a fine or some other penalty.
 
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