N400 based on 3 year or 5 year eligibility any faster

[Shari 6]

I was curious whether applying for citizenship based on 3-year eligibility or 5-year eligibility is faster. Not sure if there is any proof out there. Maybe the monthly filers charts could have a column added for this so wecould sort of compare the processing times and see if there is any difference.

[ThaitoUSA 15]

Three year eligibility is two years faster.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Three year eligibility is two years faster.

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Shari--

While it depends on how busy your local office is, you will likely find yourself progressing faster than many in your monthly filing group. Why? Because most file 90 days before their eligibility date and not much will happen except biometrics until that eligibility date. Your husband is already past his 3 and 5 year dates, so there's no reason why he couldn't interview tomorrow except for waiting through the various steps. Your fellow monthly filers may have a built-in 90 day wait before they interview and take the oath.

The monthly threads need a column for "eligibility date" if they want a comparison. When the check was cashed is kinda useless IMO. But everybody follows in the same old format as the previous month. Then they wonder how did X get an interview in 6 weeks and Y and Z took 3 months. X wasn't smarter, just already eligible but Y and Z feel left out.

[Shari 6]

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Shari--

While it depends on how busy your local office is, you will likely find yourself progressing faster than many in your monthly filing group. Why? Because most file 90 days before their eligibility date and not much will happen except biometrics until that eligibility date. Your husband is already past his 3 and 5 year dates, so there's no reason why he couldn't interview tomorrow except for waiting through the various steps. Your fellow monthly filers may have a built-in 90 day wait before they interview and take the oath.

The monthly threads need a column for "eligibility date" if they want a comparison. When the check was cashed is kinda useless IMO. But everybody follows in the same old format as the previous month. Then they wonder how did X get an interview in 6 weeks and Y and Z took 3 months. X wasn't smarter, just already eligible but Y and Z feel left out.

Nich-Nick: Good answer. I never thought about it that way, that the Interview would not be scheduled before someone's eligibility date since most people do file the 90 days beforehand. I might play around with the timeline and see if I can get Elibility Date to fit without causing any friction with fellow VJers.

[Shari 6]

Nich-Nick: I added Eligibility Date to the May filers. OMG that took a long time. I had to add the column and then move everyone's dates over. It was way more of a pain than I anticipated. If new month filers start theirs this way, it will help, but I'm not taking the time to change any others - it was exhausting - ha ha.

[nwctzn 55]

I was curious whether applying for citizenship based on 3-year eligibility or 5-year eligibility is faster. Not sure if there is any proof out there. Maybe the monthly filers charts could have a column added for this so wecould sort of compare the processing times and see if there is any difference.

Should not be a big difference. One difference could be that those who are filing based on marriage might be requested to provide more evidence during the interview which could cause some delay in the process. The general opinion is that if you have the option between 5-year residency application and marriage-based application, to go with the 5-year one since it requires less documentation and fewer questions asked during the interview.

[NickD 202]

The reason why you are here is because you married a US citizen? And already been a LPR for at least five years?

According to an act of congress back in 1927, since you married a US citizen, you would be a better US citizen, and therefore you could apply for three, not five years like it was before then. The so called marriage privilege. But you didn't take advantage of that so that marriage privilege no longer applies to you. If you have been a LPR resident for at least five years or even longer, you apply for the five year.

USCIS feels they are giving married folks a bonus with that three year thing and want an in-ordinary amount of proof that marriage is valid and that you are and have been living together. You are past that stage. For marriage, they want proof that your US citizen spouse was indeed a US citizen at the time you got married, was free to marry, did marry you, and you share anything that can have a legal document. Is a joint utility bill a legal document?

All you have to do now is to submit your N-400 application, copy of your green card, a check for 680 bucks, and two passport photos they more than likely will never use since they are taking your photo at biometrics now. Timeline has nothing to do with marriage, if we could have a applied a year earlier, processing times were well over a year because the USCIS practically doubled all the fee causing a ton of LPR's to file at the same time.

Our goal was not to have to maintain that foreign passport anymore for my wife, so did a hell of a lot of work to compile over an inch thick of documentation for marriage. But because of DOS law, wife still has to maintain that foreign passport. So felt we went through hell for nothing. Well she can vote tomorrow, but we are having problems to which crook we should vote for. If what the two candidates are saying about each other is true, both should be locked up in jail. But voting is the most important part of becoming a US citizen according to the USCIS. To us was getting rid of that foreign passport and that green card. Least the latter worked.