Passport without stamps and the citizenship interview

[tasha1h]

I recently lost my passport and got a new one. I have made 7 trips out of the US, all less than 6 months and I have significant ties to the US. I have read on this message board that during the interview, the agent compares the stamps on the passport to those on the N-400 application. Because I have a new passport, I do not have any entry or exit stamps and neither did I retain the boarding passes. Will this delay their decision? Will they have to check with their systems to confirm my exit and entry dates. Also, I have always wondered how they even confirm exit dates because the US does not stamp passports when one is existing the country. Since I don't have an I-94 that they can retain when I leave, how do they maintain such records?

 

[CanTex]

I recently lost my passport and got a new one. I have made 7 trips out of the US, all less than 6 months and I have significant ties to the US. I have read on this message board that during the interview, the agent compares the stamps on the passport to those on the N-400 application. Because I have a new passport, I do not have any entry or exit stamps and neither did I retain the boarding passes. Will this delay their decision? Will they have to check with their systems to confirm my exit and entry dates. Also, I have always wondered how they even confirm exit dates because the US does not stamp passports when one is existing the country. Since I don't have an I-94 that they can retain when I leave, how do they maintain such records?

Are you a member of a frequent flyer program(s)? Assuming your trips involved flights, maybe you have some of your FF activity reports still, or can get these on-line. I had missing stamps in my passport (which is usually not stamped entering my native country, Canada) so I was able to get my FF history from NWA's site going back for a surprising amount of time. I had known about this requirement for documenting exits / entries on the N-400 ever since I became a PR, so had kept my own log of these -- the FF reports provide confirmation of this where I'm missing passport stamps.