N-400 confusion

[RonMay 1]

hi all!

i have questions regarding about the N-400

Part 6: Information about your Residence and Employment (last five years)... since ive only been here in the US 3 yrs ago, should i include my address back in the philippines or its just mean my history "inside" the US?

Part 8: Information about marital history... my husband was divorce and they ask for the name of his ex wife. should i use the maiden name of his ex (before they got married) or after they got married which the same last name as my husband?

lastly, as far as supporting docs are concerned does this mean from AOS to I-751 (3 yrs of thick papers) should be included too in my N-400?

thank you so much for your help!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Congratulations on reaching your Naturalization stage!

You can cross out the 5 and write 3. They are only interested in your residence and employment since you became a permanent resident since you are applying under the 3 year option. That is what I did and it was fine.

My husband was divorced before as well so what I did is write her married name but added 'nee' afterwards followed by her maiden name. 'Nee' means 'birth name' so the entry appeared like this: Jane Smith nee Jones. I decided to use both names since the married name is included on the divorce decree.

You do not need to submit all of the documents as you did for the 751. There is a checklist of documents on the Guide to Naturalization booklet at the USCIS website http://www.uscis.gov...000b92ca60aRCRD and you should use those as a guideline. There are several 'options' of what documents to submit. You need only include the minimum amount they state but you can bring more with you to the interview. That is what I did but they didn't ask to see anything else. They just went through the same checklist as is in the Guide to Naturalization and checked things off on their list. Here is a direct link to the checklist, but you should read over the whole Guide as well as it is very useful: http://www.uscis.gov...attachments.pdf

Good luck!

Edited March 16, 2010 by Kathryn41

[RonMay 1]

Congratulations on reaching your Naturalization stage!

You can cross out the 5 and write 3. They are only interested in your residence and employment since you became a permanent resident since you are applying under the 3 year option. That is what I did and it was fine.

My husband was divorced before as well so what I did is write her married name but added 'nee' afterwards followed by her maiden name. 'Nee' means 'birth name' so the entry appeared like this: Jane Smith nee Jones. I decided to use both names since the married name is included on the divorce decree.

You do not need to submit all of the documents as you did for the 751. There is a checklist of documents on the Guide to Naturalization booklet at the USCIS website http://www.uscis.gov...000b92ca60aRCRD and you should use those as a guideline. There are several 'options' of what documents to submit. You need only include the minimum amount they state but you can bring more with you to the interview. That is what I did but they didn't ask to see anything else. They just went through the same checklist as is in the Guide to Naturalization and checked things off on their list. Here is a direct link to the checklist, but you should read over the whole Guide as well as it is very useful: http://www.uscis.gov...attachments.pdf

Good luck!

lifesaver! thanks again for the big help. i read the link and its very helpful

should i be concerned though that ive been gone 92 days out of the country (3 separate vacations)... or i shouldn't be worrying about it?

God bless!

[NickD 203]

I just copied and pasted my wife's employment and resident history off her G-325a I already had on my computer and added an update, so what if it went back twenty years, plenty of blanks, but only used two lines.

Since we were required to submit our divorce papers again, just used the same name as my ex on the divorce papers, so if they did check, would be no problem for them. Wasn't a problem for us either, have no idea what name she is using today and don't care, and why yet another marriage certificate? Must have thought she got her green card out of a Cracker Jack box.

So basically it's a combination of the AOS and I-751 all over again, with the delay in processing our I-751, updated all that, same stuff for the N-400 except they didn't ask for letters of affidavits, somebody at the USCIS missed that.

Where I was scratching my head with this five year thing was the days you were out of the country for the last five years, my attorney recommended to list those exact number of days, around 435 if I recall. But wife's IO wanted the days she was out of the country since she received her LPR card. Wife just said, then why didn't they ask that. Would think they would make corrections like this on their form.

I still feel it's not ethical to change the form, but to answer their questions like they ask them.