I am eligible to apply fo citizenship in Apr 2006. Meanwhile I have an offer from India that I am interested in taking as I can be close to my spouse. Husband cannot join me due to long wait times for GC spouse sponsorship. I have residing in US for most of the time except for a 3 or 4 week trip to India every year. I have a house in US and I am retaining all my bank records, car etc in US. This India job requires me to travel back to US once every 3 months. I wanted a second opinion on this. Would this affect my Citizenship application. Has anyone been in this situation. Any advice
You are using an out of date browser. It may not display this or other websites correctly.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
You should upgrade or use an alternative browser.
Seeking employment in India
- Thread starter saara
- Start date
saara said:I am eligible to apply fo citizenship in Apr 2006. Meanwhile I have an offer from India that I am interested in taking as I can be close to my spouse. Husband cannot join me due to long wait times for GC spouse sponsorship. I have residing in US for most of the time except for a 3 or 4 week trip to India every year. I have a house in US and I am retaining all my bank records, car etc in US. This India job requires me to travel back to US once every 3 months. I wanted a second opinion on this. Would this affect my Citizenship application. Has anyone been in this situation. Any advice
if you take the job in India, your payroll would be from India, that means you are based in India. I am not sure if USCIS even considers you have strong tie relationship back to US at all (even thought you have houses, bank account.. etc etc.. ). However, if that company in India has office in US, and US office hires you and you are on the US payroll; and do international projects in India, that will work out very well thou. but if it is the other way around... errr...
what are you going to put down on your job history? would USCIS be ok for someone who works in India and based in India? i am not too sure thou.
Hello Saara,
may be i can shed some light but this experience and opinions are totally my personal. we got our green cards in march/april 2000. we were eligible to apply for citizenship in Jan 2005 but in Oct 2003 we moved back to india due to personal issues. before we left we contacted imm attorneys for opinion and they told us if we make trips every six months it should be ok as we already fulfilled the 30 month requirement. my husband got a job offer from india while we still were here and joined that company in india. we made a trip to US before 6 months and then in Oct 2004 moved back to USA and resided in the same district and applied for citizenship during Jan 2005 and recieved our citizenship by April 2005. while we filled our application
1. we did not choose to disclose that employment in india just wrote as stayed home (unemployed)
2. My husband worked for the same employer before and after we came back from india
3. we did not maintain a house or car but had our bank stuff, stock stuff
4. we returned to the same city
5. we took re-entry permits in case ..........
Though we struggled with all kinds of thoughts before we went to the interview but the interview itself was made simple by the Officer. The only question he asked was how did we support ourselves for that 1 year without income and my husband answered that his parents owned a house and we had savings to support.
so my suggestion is talk to an attorney and get a feel of ur situation.
best of luck
may be i can shed some light but this experience and opinions are totally my personal. we got our green cards in march/april 2000. we were eligible to apply for citizenship in Jan 2005 but in Oct 2003 we moved back to india due to personal issues. before we left we contacted imm attorneys for opinion and they told us if we make trips every six months it should be ok as we already fulfilled the 30 month requirement. my husband got a job offer from india while we still were here and joined that company in india. we made a trip to US before 6 months and then in Oct 2004 moved back to USA and resided in the same district and applied for citizenship during Jan 2005 and recieved our citizenship by April 2005. while we filled our application
1. we did not choose to disclose that employment in india just wrote as stayed home (unemployed)
2. My husband worked for the same employer before and after we came back from india
3. we did not maintain a house or car but had our bank stuff, stock stuff
4. we returned to the same city
5. we took re-entry permits in case ..........
Though we struggled with all kinds of thoughts before we went to the interview but the interview itself was made simple by the Officer. The only question he asked was how did we support ourselves for that 1 year without income and my husband answered that his parents owned a house and we had savings to support.
so my suggestion is talk to an attorney and get a feel of ur situation.
best of luck
vlmeda said:Hello Saara,
may be i can shed some light but this experience and opinions are totally my personal. we got our green cards in march/april 2000. we were eligible to apply for citizenship in Jan 2005 but in Oct 2003 we moved back to india due to personal issues. before we left we contacted imm attorneys for opinion and they told us if we make trips every six months it should be ok as we already fulfilled the 30 month requirement. my husband got a job offer from india while we still were here and joined that company in india. we made a trip to US before 6 months and then in Oct 2004 moved back to USA and resided in the same district and applied for citizenship during Jan 2005 and recieved our citizenship by April 2005. while we filled our application
1. we did not choose to disclose that employment in india just wrote as stayed home (unemployed)
2. My husband worked for the same employer before and after we came back from india
3. we did not maintain a house or car but had our bank stuff, stock stuff
4. we returned to the same city
5. we took re-entry permits in case ..........
best of luck
Hi,
I am also looking to go back to India because of family reasons:My wife lost everybody in her family and her mom needs attention. I want to talk to you..
can u send me mail to SDQmer
Last edited by a moderator:
IRS taxes
This question is for VLMEDA. If you did not disclose your employment in India to USCIS, how did you manage paying taxes to IRS. IRS requires you to disclose worldwide income. At that time you would have to disclose the India income. Then IRS records would not match USCIS records. What did you do as far as taxes are concerned.
This question is for VLMEDA. If you did not disclose your employment in India to USCIS, how did you manage paying taxes to IRS. IRS requires you to disclose worldwide income. At that time you would have to disclose the India income. Then IRS records would not match USCIS records. What did you do as far as taxes are concerned.