Urgent: N400 Jurisdication question

[Uncle Joe]

His wife and kids may live there and he has had to take a job in another State but rents a house in an adjoining State and goes home weekends etc. Working across the border is pretty common in the North Eastern States like PA, MD, DE, DC, NJ, CT etc

Right, I lived in NY for a while, there are lot of people working in Downtown Manhattan and at the same time residing in NJ right across the river

 

[Jackolantern]

There is a thing, Im moving around a lot. For Taxes and all legal stuff I m resident of State A, it means I was living there and there live my family, so that place can't go anywhere right. So I don't have to get new DL filed up different forms everytime im moving on job related basis.

OK, you previously didn't fully explain your connection to A. Now that you've explained it, I see in your case you're owning/renting a place in two different states, but you consider A to be your primary residence. So you're a resident of A for taxes -- you'd pay taxes to state C as a nonresident because you work there, and some to A because it's your primary residence (unless the formulas for writing taxes off against each other result in zero taxes to A or C), but probably none to state B.

There are accountants that specialize in multi-state taxation (not H&R Block!) who can help you figure out how it all works.

But if you claim that B is your primary residence because you spend nearly all your time there, that's another matter. Whatever state you claim is your primary residence, you should be consistent with it -- have your driver's license there, pay taxes there as a resident, etc.

For car registration, that might be a bit tricky if the car is usually parked overnight in B but you're claiming to be a resident of A. Specific states have their own rules for that kind of situation.