N-400 help

[shyne04 0]

HI Guys

I am filing my N-400 for for US Citizenship I've been sailing smoothly through the question until I got to part 6. My problem with this question is I have been living in the US since October of 2001. During this time I was issued what is called a V Visa. However in 2005 I became a permanent resident. I am not sure If i should start listing my residence information from Jan 1st 2005 . More importantly I have been living in the same residence since I entered the US should I list it 5 time or should I List it on the line where It says current home address once and indicate when I started living at this residence to present?

Thnks For your help Guys

[-B&T- 1]

If you didn't move and have been living in same address since you entered US then you don't have to write anything else but the dates October 2001-Present.

[nigel 7]

3 links you should look at, this will give you the answers your looking for..

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...000b92ca60aRCRD

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...000b92ca60aRCRD

http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/chapter4.pdf

Edited January 30, 2010 by nigel

[nigel 7]

HI Guys

I am filing my N-400 for for US Citizenship I've been sailing smoothly through the question until I got to part 6. My problem with this question is I have been living in the US since October of 2001. During this time I was issued what is called a V Visa. However in 2005 I became a permanent resident. I am not sure If i should start listing my residence information from Jan 1st 2005 . More importantly I have been living in the same residence since I entered the US should I list it 5 time or should I List it on the line where It says current home address once and indicate when I started living at this residence to present?

Thnks For your help Guys

Go from the date it says on your P/R card...make it 3yr if married to a usc or 5 yrs if not...also you can apply 90 days before on both..

But what you said you got your P/R status in 2005 so go from that date....

The links i showed you will give samples...

[NickD 202]

Your address history?

Wife only had two addresses for the last 25 years, I just copied her address information from her G-325A and updated it, and did show the accurate From date for her Venezuelan address. Her USA address was the same. So we went back 25 years, no problem, but felt it was necessary to show the proper From date for her Venezuelan address that was part of her five year period. Made sure everything was consistent as she had to do some head scratching to look up those dates for the G-325A.

My major problem was putting in her Venezuelan address in that small space, more like War and Peace than a common USA address, but was using Adobe Acrobat Pro that let me reduce the font size. And as far as the USA address, Present was already listed so our N-400 was exactly like her G-325A.

If you changed addresses more than four times in the last five years, have to find a separate sheet of paper, around here, that could be a problem. It was the same with her employment history, again since she only had two jobs, we went back 25 years.

Where I brains were stumped was in Part 7, how many days were you out of the country in the last five years. We answered that question literally, her IO didn't like our answer, but wife replied, that is exactly what that question asked, so it wasn't a problem for her. Shouldn't be a problem for you, since you have been an LPR for five years.

[shyne04 0]

Hey Thanks Guys

Finally figured it out as you said Nigel i just used the date on my PR card which so i guess that should be fine I just hope it does not create an issue since i was actually listed from 01/01/2005 and became a permanent resident in march. The thing is I resided in the us during that time since I had the V visa which permitted me to live in the US. I was issued this visa because INS Screwed up on my papers ....could you believe they actually misplaced my file. The worse thing is after Issuing me this V visa I inherited more problems. I got held back once at the airport since Border patrol and customs couldn't even understand the visa since they hadn't seen one like that.