Leaving U.S after naturalization

[blackrain76 0]

Can a person after having been Naturalized leave the U.S for a lengthy period of time without having to worry about restrictions.

[Staashi 371]

Can a person after having been Naturalized leave the U.S for a lengthy period of time without having to worry about restrictions.

Yes, you can. Just make sure that while you're naturalizing, that you obey the time restrictions as an LPR.

Good luck!

[blackrain76 0]

Can a person after having been Naturalized leave the U.S for a lengthy period of time without having to worry about restrictions.

Yes, you can. Just make sure that while you're naturalizing, that you obey the time restrictions as an LPR.

Good luck!

Can a person who becomes naturalized leave the U.S FOR EVER..?

[Staashi 371]

Can a person after having been Naturalized leave the U.S for a lengthy period of time without having to worry about restrictions.

Yes, you can. Just make sure that while you're naturalizing, that you obey the time restrictions as an LPR.

Good luck!

Can a person who becomes naturalized leave the U.S FOR EVER..?

Yes, but if you want to retain your citizenship, you will still have to file an annual income tax to the IRS. There are other parameters as well...you can find them on the USCIS website.

[Lansbury 19]

Can a person after having been Naturalized leave the U.S for a lengthy period of time without having to worry about restrictions.

Yes, you can. Just make sure that while you're naturalizing, that you obey the time restrictions as an LPR.

Good luck!

Can a person who becomes naturalized leave the U.S FOR EVER..?

If you take up residence in another country in the first five years after you got your citizenship that is one of the grounds for it being taken away. Don't know if that has every happened but it is in the list of things which can cause you to lose citizenship.

[lucyrich 20]

Can a person after having been Naturalized leave the U.S for a lengthy period of time without having to worry about restrictions.

Yes, you can. Just make sure that while you're naturalizing, that you obey the time restrictions as an LPR.

Good luck!

Can a person who becomes naturalized leave the U.S FOR EVER..?

Yes, but if you want to retain your citizenship, you will still have to file an annual income tax to the IRS. There are other parameters as well...you can find them on the USCIS website.

True that you need to file, but understand that the penalty to a citizen for failure to file income tax isn't loss of citizenship, it's fines, interest, penalties, and jail time.

And the way to give up citizenship isn't just to forget about filing tax returns. The ways are enumerated in 8 USC 1481.

In order to give up citizenship, you must do one of the following things, and you must do it voluntarily and with the intention of relinquishing US citizenship:

1. Naturalize into another country

2. Take an oath of alliegance to another country.

3. Serve in the military of another country, if the army is engaged in hostilities with the US or if the service is as an officer.

4. Accept any office, post, or employment under the government of a foreign state where citizenship or oath of alliegance to the foreign state is required.

5. Make a formal renunciation of nationality before a diplomatic or consular officer of the United States.

6. Make in the United States a formal written renunciation of nationality when the US is at war and the Attorney General approves it.

7. Commit treason.

These are paraphrased, see the link above for the actual language in the statute.

If you don't do these things, you haven't lost citizenship. If you do one of these things, but don't do it voluntarily, you haven't lost citizenship. If you do one of these things voluntarily, but without intending your act to cause a loss of your US citizenship, you haven't lost citizenship.

It's actually pretty hard to lose citizenship.

[lucyrich 20]

Can a person after having been Naturalized leave the U.S for a lengthy period of time without having to worry about restrictions.

Yes, you can. Just make sure that while you're naturalizing, that you obey the time restrictions as an LPR.

Good luck!

Can a person who becomes naturalized leave the U.S FOR EVER..?

If you take up residence in another country in the first five years after you got your citizenship that is one of the grounds for it being taken away. Don't know if that has every happened but it is in the list of things which can cause you to lose citizenship.

No, that hasn't been true since 1986. Public law 99-653 changed it from five years to one year in 1986, and Public law 103-416 repealed the provision entirely in 1994 (title II sec 208). Since that became law in 1994, you can move away from the US to reside permanently in another country the day after you naturalize, and that won't cause a loss of citizenship.

[Lansbury 19]

No, that hasn't been true since 1986. Public law 99-653 changed it from five years to one year in 1986, and Public law 103-416 repealed the provision entirely in 1994 (title II sec 208). Since that became law in 1994, you can move away from the US to reside permanently in another country the day after you naturalize, and that won't cause a loss of citizenship.

I stand corrected thanks.

Funnily enough I only read yesterday about the 5 year requirement and that was the first time I'd heard about it. Obviously why it was out of date information.

Edited March 21, 2008 by Lansbury