Applying for naturalization...

[kss 0]

I need some help in figuring out the continuous residence requirement for a PR card holder. Now my mom is Permanent Resident for 3 years and plans to apply for her citizenship. She didnt knew about the 6 month continous residence requirement and in the past 3 years has been out of the country once for 8 months. Now I know about the http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=89841 thread where it mentions about tax return, car loans being shown as a proof of residence. She dosent have these documents. My dad/mom has a joint bank account in the US. They stay with me so they dont have a mortgage/rental documents. What other documents can be shown for the continous residency for absenses more than 6 months but less than a year ?

Any help is appreciated.

[YuAndDan 153]

The 3 year requirement requires 2 things:

First needs to be married to a US citizen for the 3 years, and the US citizen needs to be a citizen the entire 3 years (Cannot be an LPR then became a citizen during the 3 years).

Cannot be out of the US for more than 6 months at a time, and needs to show 18 months residency during the 3 years.

The 8 month absance will reset this clock and will need to start counting residency time from after the 8 month absance.

More here: http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/M-476.pdf

LPR's are required to file IRS returns every year, they should have a joint return, and will need to provide a copy of past 3 years returns or tax transcripts.

4 Documents referring to you and your spouse:

• Tax returns, bank accounts, leases, mortgages, or birth certificates of children, or

• Internal Revenue Service (IRS) - certified copies of the income tax forms that you both filed for the past three years, or

• An IRS tax return transcript for the last three years.

More here: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00048f3d6a1RCRD