Travel/Move after N-400 application

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If someone applies for Citizenship and decides to travel (frankly speaking, move back to home country), what is the best way (either by way of travelling back and forth until the Citizenship is approved or otherwise) to still get the Citizenship?
 
Thanks servettasman for your response.

Would you think just visiting US every 6 months (until Citizenship is approved) would be enough to NOT kick-in the abandonment of LPR? Would it be legal, without any reason to do that?

Additionally, would it be okay to apply after 4 years 9 months (as oppossed to 5 full years) and then travel/move?

Anyone with such a travel experience?
 
Thanks servettasman & JoeF.

So the bottomline is to maintain the LPR status.

So, if I want to move out of the country, would I be able to do that by returning back to US every 6 months until I get my Citizenship? Would medical reasons (taking care of parents back home) be a good reason to be out of US (and that you are returning to US just to maintain the LPR.)
 
Thanks again servettasman & JoeF for your input.

Another twist to this - what do you think if one is permitted to either tele-commute (still get paid the same US salary in US) or do consulting from their home-country for the same US employer that (s)he is currently employed with? What kind of implication(s) would it have - either on LPR status (I mean would you be considered as if you are in US, for length of stay purpose for Citizenship or to maintain one's GC), Citizenship application or otherwise?
 
Originally posted by JoeF

No. It is in absolutely no case enough to live abroad and just come back once in a while, no matter what the reason.
All you can do is staying abroad temporarily. You have to continue to reside in the US. You don't "move" abroad. You move, you lose the GC. It is a simple as that.
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JoeF, we had this discussion before, but can you point to me where it says in the INA or elsewhere about GC invalidated if you life out of the US but manage to come once/year or once/2 years with reentry?
 
If you travel abroad more than 6 months, you will lose your continuous residence status. For ex: if you have to wait for 5 years for citizenship after the Green Card and you travel more than 6 months in the 4th year, instead of waiting for 1 more year to be eligible for citizenship, you will have to wait for an additional 4 years and 1 day to be eligible. The govt will only give you partial credit (I think its 1 year minus 1 day if I am not mistaken).

You can find this policy at the USCIS website.
http://uscis.gov/graphics/services/natz/English.pdf

You won't lose your LPR status if you stay less than a year abroad or if you apply for an reentry permit if you want to stay more than a year.
 
yes, but if you come back for 1 day every 365 days and keep doing it for a few years, then you may have abandoned your status.
 
So if someone completed their 5 years requirement and applied for N-400 and then went overseas with a re-entry permit (lets say the reason being spending time with their aged parents.) And come back after 1 year (remember they have already met the 5 year requirement for Citizenship), their GC is still active (hopefully) because of re-entry permit, but the continuous stay does not count (but then they have already met the 5 year requirement when applying for N-400.) With this said, do you think with this scenario, the person can still be eligible to receive Citizenship?

How would the same case be if a person resides overseas for more than 6 months, but less than 1 year?

Note that the person still maintains his bank accounts, pays mortgage, taxes, etc. while he is overseas for over a year.
 
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