I made an error with number of months, it should be 30; not 36. my bad.
Continued residence and physical presence are two different things from USCIS perspective, to me they mean same.
Continued residency is "length" of residency (of course lawful) where as physical presence means just that;physically (and of course lawfully) present in US. Without maintaining contnued residency, one cannot be phyically present; and without physically being present, cannot claim continued residence. This again has lot of exceptions like working for an US research firm/institution, etc. Bottomline is that contnued residency can still be maintained under some exempted and approved circumstances but not may be physical presence of 30 months out of 5 years or 3 years (what ever the case may be).
The guide clearly says that one may apply for naturalization benefits 90 days prior to meeting continuous residence only and meet all other eligibility requirements (like physical presence?)
And of course, all this is based on assumption that one already has LPR/GC for the last 5 years and still maintained Continued residency and physical presence requirements, along with other things like good moral character (again debatable).
We can always debate "attachment to the constitution" : is attachment to all parts of constituition or only few selected parts of constituition?
in my opinion : One cannot arbitrarily/randomly select few amedments or few rules and debate; in sequential process of law, either all inclusive discussion is needed or none. that's again my opinion/perspective.
Continued residence and physical presence are two different things from USCIS perspective, to me they mean same.
Continued residency is "length" of residency (of course lawful) where as physical presence means just that;physically (and of course lawfully) present in US. Without maintaining contnued residency, one cannot be phyically present; and without physically being present, cannot claim continued residence. This again has lot of exceptions like working for an US research firm/institution, etc. Bottomline is that contnued residency can still be maintained under some exempted and approved circumstances but not may be physical presence of 30 months out of 5 years or 3 years (what ever the case may be).
The guide clearly says that one may apply for naturalization benefits 90 days prior to meeting continuous residence only and meet all other eligibility requirements (like physical presence?)
And of course, all this is based on assumption that one already has LPR/GC for the last 5 years and still maintained Continued residency and physical presence requirements, along with other things like good moral character (again debatable).
We can always debate "attachment to the constitution" : is attachment to all parts of constituition or only few selected parts of constituition?
in my opinion : One cannot arbitrarily/randomly select few amedments or few rules and debate; in sequential process of law, either all inclusive discussion is needed or none. that's again my opinion/perspective.