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auro_venus

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Hi everyone,

I have a question which may be the case for a number of people so I hope that someone could give me an answer.

My wife got his GC in 1989 when she was 10 yeas old and a few years after that she moved back to her home country but she routinely travelled to US to maintain het GC. She came back to US in 2001 and has stayed in the country since then. She is thinking of applying for Citizenship but in the N400 form, they ask for the dates of all of the trips that she has taken since she became a permanent resident and NOT only for trips that were in the last 5 years. So I have a two part question

1) What should she do about the exact dates?

2) Does having so many trips outside US hurt her case? In other words she has spent most of the last 15 yeas out of US but most of the last 5 years in US so is it possible that the immigration officials claim that she had abandoned her PR status?

Thanks alot guys
 
You can find exact date of traveling from her passport.

As long as she has maintained her GC and fulfilling the all requirments that are in Naturalization guide, she is ok to apply.
 
Thanks Guys,

The problem is that she was younger than 18 and of course did not file tax forms before (since she did not work). She has filed her tax forms in recent years when she had a job though. We have asked this from an immigration attorney and he also says that if the immigration officials want, they can create some problems but the fact that she has spent the last 4 years living and working here helps her. Given this, I am not sure if it is a good idea to apply for citizenship or not. But this issue will be a problem forever since any time that she decides to apply for citizenship, it may be brought up ~!!!??!

Does anyone has a similar experience? I guess it somehow depends on the officer that interviews her
 
auro_venus said:
Thanks Guys,

The problem is that she was younger than 18 and of course did not file tax forms before (since she did not work). She has filed her tax forms in recent years when she had a job though. We have asked this from an immigration attorney and he also says that if the immigration officials want, they can create some problems but the fact that she has spent the last 4 years living and working here helps her. Given this, I am not sure if it is a good idea to apply for citizenship or not. But this issue will be a problem forever since any time that she decides to apply for citizenship, it may be brought up ~!!!??!

Does anyone has a similar experience? I guess it somehow depends on the officer that interviews her
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I did not have a similar experience nor do I know anyone, however, this is my take on the issue:
Since she was 10 years old, she can always say that she was away to her home country for educational purposes. Now that she has graduated and decided to stay here in the US (4 years continuous stay being the proof) she has decided to apply for Naturalization.
 
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