do you think i will get citizensip after this?

[idea_sena 0]

I have a green card and I'm thinking about living 50/50 in US and my home country Slovakia.

I've had GC for about 6 years and been living quite a travelling life spending more time outside US then in. Its also about 50/50 with trips always around 10mo in or out.My continuous residency is broken.

Do you think that if i live 50/50 in and out for five years they will give me citizenship with such history?

Got GC after Mom.

Thank you very much for effort. It will help a lot in deciding where my life will go from here.

[Inky 1,111]

No and you will probably get your green card taken away.

[amykathleen2005 441]

You are no where near the requirements for maintaining residency, let alone citizenship. You've been using your greencard like a visa, which it not.

[Tero 105]

It is quite unfortunate you are asking this question late. You might want to contact DHS for a possible solution.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

If I may be frank, I think you should drop down on your knees and praise your creator that you miraculously were able to get away with this for so long. The very moment any of the elves of USCIS or CBP will find out that you abused your Green Card as a tourist visa, they'' take it away from you in an instant.

Unless you like to play Russian Roulette with 5 bullets in a 6-chamber Colt, I would not even think of naturalization for many years to come. Understand that you would have to list all absences from the US since becoming a resident. At that point you basically would ask them to put you straight in front of an immigration judge.

Looks like you will have to make a decision on where you would prefer to live: the US or Slovakia.

Final thought: if I were in your shoes, I would not even leave the US for a 2-week vacation for at least 1 year.

[idea_sena 0]

oh .. i have written it in quite a confusing way.. sorry about that. also thanks for replies.

what i meant was that if from now on i will spend in US more than half a year and go to europe for rest of the year. do that for 5 years. and if you think they would give me citizenship after that. I know that it is a half-assed job but i don't think i would like to abandon europe fully YET.

I'm also thinking about getting re-entry permit instead. Do you think it would help at the borders in 2 years with such history?

Thanks

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Every time you arrive at the POE in the US, you are running the risk of a CBP officer looking at you and having a bad day. If he or she then scans your Green Card and presses two more buttons, every of your US entries since you became a LPR will show up. If the CBP officer then sees more entries than a space ship has strobe lights, all staggered in a way that a suspicious immigration officer read about in a textbook, you may find yourself in a not so desirable position.

You already have abandoned your US residency and violated the terms of a resident, they just haven't found out yet, which is a small miracle in the age of computers and biometric cards and passports. Every time you show up at the CBP, you are pulling the trigger on the almost fully loaded Colt I described in my previous post. You excessive absences of the past won't be erased like credit card debt. They will show up until you are no longer a resident.

Ready to pull the trigger . . . again?

Edited January 31, 2011 by Just Bob

[Inky 1,111]

oh .. i have written it in quite a confusing way.. sorry about that. also thanks for replies.

what i meant was that if from now on i will spend in US more than half a year and go to europe for rest of the year. do that for 5 years. and if you think they would give me citizenship after that. I know that it is a half-assed job but i don't think i would like to abandon europe fully YET.

I'm also thinking about getting re-entry permit instead. Do you think it would help at the borders in 2 years with such history?

Thanks

Nope doubt that will help you either.

If you apply for a entry permit you have to list why you need one, they will look into your background.

[juliava 80]

i don't think i would like to abandon europe fully YET.

I'm curious what makes you think that staying in US to get your US citizenship means "abandoning" Europe for good?

[eskie 1]

oh .. i have written it in quite a confusing way.. sorry about that. also thanks for replies.

what i meant was that if from now on i will spend in US more than half a year and go to europe for rest of the year. do that for 5 years. and if you think they would give me citizenship after that. I know that it is a half-assed job but i don't think i would like to abandon europe fully YET.

I'm also thinking about getting re-entry permit instead. Do you think it would help at the borders in 2 years with such history?

Thanks

Did you have a house/apartment in the US for the last 6 years? Have you paid taxes in the US for the last 6 years? Do you have family/spouse who lives in the US permanently? If you answer 'no' to any of those questions then don't even try to apply for citizenship. You can visit Europe regularly, you know, without spending half of every year there... Although it looks to me, as it will to an Immigration Officer, that you are not committed at all to living in the USA.