N-400 Question

[kmh]

Hi Gurus,
I am confused with the list of my trips (N-400, Part 7, and C)

1. Usually US airport doesn’t stamp on the passport when someone is leaving. In my country’s airport stamps both time (arrival and departure). My country is 12 hours ahead of this country (USA). Bellow is the chart for my departure and return dates. Which date I should consider as my departure date from US?

Date Stamped in my country Date Stamped in USA Days
01/04/2001 01/31/2001
06/02/2002 07/10/2002 35 US immigration officer wrote down the # days. Should I correct it or count 35 days?
02/02/2003 03/13/2003 1month US immigration officer wrote down the # days. Should I correct it or count 1 month?
01/17/2004 02/11/2004
*01/23/2004 to 01/31/2004 I visited Thailand. Should I count it as an additional trip or not?


06/27/2004 07/09/2004

2. Q.33—Are you a male who lived in the United States at any time between your 18th and 26th birthdays in any status except as a lawful nonimmigrant?

If your answer “NO”, go to question 34.

 So, if my answer is “YES” then I do not have to answer 34. Do I have to answer 35-39? Should I leave Q.34 blank?


Please help me out with these stupid questions.

 

[mgh2001]

Usually US airport doesn’t stamp on the passport when someone is leaving. In my country’s airport stamps both time (arrival and departure). My country is 12 hours ahead of this country (USA). Bellow is the chart for my departure and return dates. Which date I should consider as my departure date from US?

Date Stamped in my country Date Stamped in USA Days
01/04/2001 01/31/2001
06/02/2002 07/10/2002 35 US immigration officer wrote down the # days. Should I correct it or count 35 days?
02/02/2003 03/13/2003 1month US immigration officer wrote down the # days. Should I correct it or count 1 month?
01/17/2004 02/11/2004
*01/23/2004 to 01/31/2004 I visited Thailand. Should I count it as an additional trip or not?

>> Count any days spent in the U.S (in U.S time) as day entirely in the U.S i.e., do not include in time outside the country. Only U.S departure/arrival dates matter - regardless of what your country stamps. So if you leave the U.S at 11pm on 06/02, but its 10am in your country - then you spent 06/02 in the U.S. So if you left on 06/02 and came back 06/03 - then you spent 0 days outside the U.S.
>> N-400 is only concerned with days/trips outside the U.S - any additional internal trips you took within your trip outside the U.S does not matter (you can list all the destinations and count it as one trip)
>> Make sure you count the correct # of days, even if U.S immigration officer made a mistake.


06/27/2004 07/09/2004

Q.33—Are you a male who lived in the United States at any time between your 18th and 26th birthdays in any status except as a lawful nonimmigrant?

If your answer “NO”, go to question 34.

 So, if my answer is “YES” then I do not have to answer 34. Do I have to answer 35-39? Should I leave Q.34 blank?

>>> Jeez.. If you answer Yes, then you cannot go directly to question 34. You need to answer the sub-questions to Q33 and then proceed to question 34 and onwards. How exactly did you get the logic that if you answered Yes you do not have to answer 34? If A implies B, Not A does not necessarily imply Not B!