Trip b/w interview & oath

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cgiz

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What in case if someone takes trips out of the US after the interview? Then during oath, the person needs to report it in the oath letter, then what will BCIS do? Verify total physical absence again? How is this going to affect the oath process? Any delay caused?

Can someone having similar experience shed some light on this issue?
 
Hi cgiz

As far as I know, they simply ask you to list location and duration of trip. At the Oath ceremony, someone next to me had gone to Poland for a month but they didn't care about it too deeply or recalculate his physical absence or anything, they just wanted to know about it...he took the Oath with the rest of us...

I would say that as long as:

- Your trip is no more than a few months
- You don't actually MISS your oath date while you're on the trip

you'll be fine...

Missing your Oath date is a pain, you have to send in a letter explaining why you missed it and face delays in rescheduling...

Good luck!

Ratrat
 
ratrat,
you mantioned " they didnot care (to) ...calculate physical persence..."
As I understand calculation of physical presence is relevant at the time of filing N 400. After that one can travel out of US but has to atleast maintain his LPR status. If, by staying away he looses his LPR status ( so determined by the officer at the POE) , then he looses his GC and then naturally his N 400 cannot be processed.
However I would not know what will happen if at the time of interview the officer finds or concludes that one has lost his ties to US and lost his LPR status in the process. Would he still process his N 400? I would think if he is away for more than 6 months the interviewing officer may conclude that there is a break in his LPR status, and decide not to process his N 400.
Similarlly, during staying away from US between interview and oath one should be required to maintain his LPR status. So calculation of physical presence is not so much relevant.
Above is my understanding. I would like views from gurus like JoeF, 2B1citizen, chicadodesi, cornerstone, shaky , Jitender , mariahoney and others.. please !!!
 
As long as you haven't taken the oath, you are still not a US citizen. As such, all the laws governing maintaining the green card still apply.

However, you can certainly still travel between your interview and your oath dates, as long as you don't break the residency or any other requirements. You merely declare those travel dates on the oath letter during the ceremony.
 
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Radni said:
ratrat,
you mantioned " they didnot care (to) ...calculate physical persence..."
As I understand calculation of physical presence is relevant at the time of filing N 400. After that one can travel out of US but has to atleast maintain his LPR status. If, by staying away he looses his LPR status ( so determined by the officer at the POE) , then he looses his GC and then naturally his N 400 cannot be processed.
However I would not know what will happen if at the time of interview the officer finds or concludes that one has lost his ties to US and lost his LPR status in the process. Would he still process his N 400? I would think if he is away for more than 6 months the interviewing officer may conclude that there is a break in his LPR status, and decide not to process his N 400.
Similarlly, during staying away from US between interview and oath one should be required to maintain his LPR status. So calculation of physical presence is not so much relevant.
Above is my understanding. I would like views from gurus like JoeF, 2B1citizen, chicadodesi, cornerstone, shaky , Jitender , mariahoney and others.. please !!!
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JoeF !!
Some comments from you please!!
 
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