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SilverT   0

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Hello

I've hired a lawyer to take care of the process for me (it should be easy though) ... she is taking too long to file and I need to leave the country in a few days.

I've read somewhere that you need to be inside the country for 3 months before you can file ... is that true? Can I leave the country before she files the paperwork or do I have to wait until she does so?

Within the last 5 years I've only been out of the country for 4 months ... and last time I've exited the US was about 1.5 years ago.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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You need to be a RESIDENT of where you live right now for 3 months, so that your N-400 is adjudicated at the correct USCIS center. You can vacation until you run out of money, just make sure you're back in a month so that you can attend the Biometrics appointment.

What the rule means, if you lived in . . . say Chicago and moved to San Diego, then you would have to wait 3 months after the move before you can send out your N-400.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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v333k   59

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Just Bob nailed it. As long as you satisfy the continuous residency and physical presence (after your trip) then the 3 months will only count if you move to a new area that gets serviced by a new district office.

N-400 Naturalization Timeline

06/28/11 .. Mailed N-400 package via Priority mail with delivery confirmation

06/30/11 .. Package Delivered to Dallas Lockbox

07/06/11 .. Received e-mail notification of application acceptance

07/06/11 .. Check cashed

07/08/11 .. Received NOA letter

07/29/11 .. Received text/e-mail for biometrics notice

08/03/11 .. Received Biometrics letter - scheduled for 8/24/11

08/04/11 .. Walk-in finger prints done.

08/08/11 .. Received text/e-mail: Placed in line for interview scheduling

09/12/11 .. Received Yellow letter dated 9/7/11

09/13/11 .. Received text/e-mail: Interview scheduled

09/16/11 .. Received interview letter

10/19/11 .. Interview - PASSED

10/20/11 .. Received text/email: Oath scheduled

10/22/11 .. Received OATH letter

11/09/11 .. Oath ceremony

 
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