Rajiv Ji,
I received my green card in June 2015 and I have a re-entry permit which will expire in Feb 2019.
My fiance is in India and recently received B1/B2 Tourist visa.
Question regarding Continuous residency requirements for US citizenship.
1) To apply for US citizenship, I should live in the US under permanent residency status right for atleast 4.5 years right?
2) If I go to India, work and live in India for next 2-3 years, get married and apply my wife green card (F2A) and then come to the US with my wife.
3) Before I left to India, I would have completed around 2.5 years living in the US with green card status.
4) When I come back to US, will previous 2.5 years of my stay in the US as a GC holder stay active and live another 2.5 years and become eligible to apply for US citizen or counter resets and I have live another 5 years from start before I am eligible to apply for US citizenship?
5) From Form M-480 (Naturalization Eligibility Worksheet Instructions) page 4, Attachment C, suggests that filing “Application to Preserve Residence for Naturalization purposes” (Form N-470), if I permananent residence has taken trip out of united states that lasted for one year or more.
I work for a US based company.
From Form "N-470" “Application to Preserve Residence for Naturalization purposes”
Part 1 “Application to Preserve Residence for Naturalization purposes”
There is an option 3, which is "An American Firm or corporation, or a subsidiary thereof, to engage in the development of foreign trade and commerce of the united states"
I work for a US based company say XYZ, when I transfer to its Indian subsidiary, say XYZ India pvt ltd, am I eligible to apply for form N-470.?
6) My re-entry permit expired in Feb 2019.
Can I apply for extension from India and come to the US for biometric? or should I need to apply for re-entry permit extension from USA only?
7) While I am in India working for US company's India subsidiary XYX India Private ltd, can I file the family based green card petition for my wife (F2A) from India?
If I can file the petition (F2A) frok India, do I satisfy the domiciliary condition? Will there be any questions in interview on why I am sponsoring F2A from India?
Thanks,
Vijay