US Citizenship question

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clspcb

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Question:
My son is HS senior in US and will be graduating by May/Jun 2009.
He got GC along with parents during Jun 2005.
Son's DOB is April 1992.
Can I send my son to India for Medical school admission by Jul 2009?
Does my son eligibile for Citizenship, if he leaves US for studying in India from Jul 2009? (Got GC 4 years back)
Can I get any kind of approval from INS for Study purposes, with out affecting the GC status?

One more Question:
By the time we are eligible to apply for Citizenship he will be 18 years by Jun 2010!! Does that mean he needs to apply on his own for Citizenship? Will there be any hardship to do that?
 
clspcb said:
Question:
My son is HS senior in US and will be graduating by May/Jun 2009.
He got GC along with parents during Jun 2005.
Son's DOB is April 1992.
Can I send my son to India for Medical school admission by Jul 2009?
Does my son eligibile for Citizenship, if he leaves US for studying in India from Jul 2009? (Got GC 4 years back)
Can I get any kind of approval from INS for Study purposes, with out affecting the GC status?

One more Question:
By the time we are eligible to apply for Citizenship he will be 18 years by Jun 2010!! Does that mean he needs to apply on his own for Citizenship? Will there be any hardship to do that?
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I believe the following:

He will lose his LPR status if he leaves the US and he will lose also the 4 years continous residence. If he wants to get a permit to leave the US he can do so for 1 year renewable up to 2 years. That is the way I have seen people do it.

The best thing he can do is to wait until March 2010 and apply for USC, become a citizen, then leave for medical school to India.
 
I am going to transfer this thread to the US Citizenship forum... bcs this is a citizenship question and I am sure you will get better answers.
 
clspcb said:
By the time we are eligible to apply for Citizenship he will be 18 years by Jun 2010!! Does that mean he needs to apply on his own for Citizenship? Will there be any hardship to do that?
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Yes, he will have to apply on his own because he will be 18 before you can get citizenship.

Think some more about whether it is a good idea for him to go to medical school outside the US, because
(1) the length of time spent outside the US means he would risk losing his green card. This can be mitigated by obtaining a reentry permit before leaving, but it is granted only for 2 years and they won't always give another 2 years for the renewed one.

(2) the years of overseas studying means he cannot obtain citizenship until after completing his studies and returning to live full time in the US. He may have to wait for 4-5 years after returning in order to rebuild eligibility for citizenship, because if they deem that continuous residence is broken due to the long time overseas, the clock gets reset and he has to rebuild the years of residence. So that could mean waiting until 2017 or later to get citizenship.

(3) There are barriers to graduates of non-US medical schools being allowed to practice medicine in the US, even if they are US citizens. At a minimum, the residency year at a hospital would have to be done (or redone) in the US. Other stuff may have to be redone as well.

So I would advise him to work or study somewhere in the US during the time it takes to obtain US citizenship, and then either go to a US medical school (which would require a bachelor's degree first) or choose the Indian medical school very carefully to ensure it is one with enough US acceptance in order to minimize the difficulties and rework when returning to the US. If possible, speak to US-based doctors who went to Indian medical school and find out what they had to go through (from a medical qualification and licensing perspective, not immigration) to be allowed to practice in the US.
 
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