Can I apply for Citizenship from date of marriage or date of Permanent Residencey?

[Kirsty 0]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if I can apply for Citizenship from date of marriage or do I have to wait until 3 yrs from date of Permanent Residencey? I arrived in US on a J1 visa in October 2007. I got married to a US citizen in April 2009 and received my permanent residence card in August 2009. I am hoping I can apply for citizenship on our 3rd anniversary in April 2012 or do I have to wait until August 2012 when I have been a PR for 3 years?

Thanks in advance!

[LADYDARE 28]

You can apply for citizenship 90days before date on green card.

[Mononoke28 135]

Hello,

Can anyone tell me if I can apply for Citizenship from date of marriage or do I have to wait until 3 yrs from date of Permanent Residencey? I arrived in US on a J1 visa in October 2007. I got married to a US citizen in April 2009 and received my permanent residence card in August 2009. I am hoping I can apply for citizenship on our 3rd anniversary in April 2012 or do I have to wait until August 2012 when I have been a PR for 3 years?

Thanks in advance!

It's all based on the date you became a US permanent resident, it has nothing to do with the date you were married. You can apply 90 days before your three year anniversary as a permanent resident.

Diana

[v333k 59]

Not Marriage... date when you became a resident. The marriage is looked at as a perk that allows you to apply 2 years earlier , i.e. after 3 years of being a LPR.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Apply common sense.

George, a Yankee, marries Emma, a Brit. The year is 1961. They live in Yorkshire, happily, and retire in 2011.

After retirement they decide that they've had enough of the rain and would like to live out their final days in Florida.

George files an I-130 for his wife of 40 years and she receives an IR-1 visa with which she enters the U.S. on July 1, 2011.

Here is the question for you, Kirsty, and please don't let me down here:

Is Emma eligible for U.S. citizenship on July 2, the very next day, because she is married to George for over 40 years?

I know it's a tricky one, so sleep on it.

[NickD 203]

Actually, you have to meet both requirements when applying for the three year marriage. You must be married to the same person and living with that person with all kinds of legal proof you are for three years on the day you plan on sending in your N-400 application.

Second requirement is to be a LPR for three years minus 90 days, so just subtract the 90 days on your 3rd green card anniversary. Can do this by counting days backwards on a calendar. And with the USCIS, 90 days means 90 days, sent it in 91 days before your third anniversary, can be rejected.

That 90 days would not be an issue if say you received your green card the day you were married, you cannot send your application in unless married for a full three years on the day you can send your application in. So the earliest date would be the 3rd anniversary date on your green card.

We didn't have this problem, because it took the USCIS almost a year to issue my wife a green card after we were married. We were married darn near four years before we could apply. Wonder who dreams this stuff up, but you will make a better citizen if you are married to a US citizen according to our congress. Before that time, everyone had to wait five years. But this was the same congress that made drinking a beer highly illegal. So what can you say?

I got married to a US citizen in April 2009 and received my permanent residence card in August 2009.

Lets say you got married the end of April and received your green card the very first day in August of 2009. That would be May, June, and July so should total 90 days minimum, so save to say that you can apply no sooner that 90 days before your third green card anniversary date. May sound stupid, but is the law. You should have been married for the minimum of three years on the day you can send in your application.

[TinTin and Samby 11]

Apply common sense.

George, a Yankee, marries Emma, a Brit. The year is 1961. They live in Yorkshire, happily, and retire in 2011.

After retirement they decide that they've had enough of the rain and would like to live out their final days in Florida.

George files an I-130 for his wife of 40 years and she receives an IR-1 visa with which she enters the U.S. on July 1, 2011.

Here is the question for you, Kirsty, and please don't let me down here:

Is Emma eligible for U.S. citizenship on July 2, the very next day, because she is married to George for over 40 years?

I know it's a tricky one, so sleep on it.

Only problem with this analogy, Just Bob, is that not everyone on this site will necessarily understand that "Yankee" means "US Citizen"....

[NickD 203]

Only problem with this analogy, Just Bob, is that not everyone on this site will necessarily understand that "Yankee" means "US Citizen"....

Ha, "Yankee" definition is more limited than that, only US citizens living north of the Mason-Dixie line are Yankees. South of that are Rebels, further defined as Rebels without a cause.

[Glyn and Kathy 288]

Ha, "Yankee" definition is more limited than that, only US citizens living north of the Mason-Dixie line are Yankees. South of that are Rebels, further defined as Rebels without a cause.

Not to the English....WE'RE ALL "YANKS" to them.

[M.O 6]

lol BOB

[FRJ 0]

oh so 90 days before the 3rd anniversary i can apply for citizenship?> i got my perm status in feb 2009. was just looking this up when i came across this post. let me know for sure.

[gizzly 0]

oh so 90 days before the 3rd anniversary i can apply for citizenship?> i got my perm status in feb 2009. was just looking this up when i came across this post. let me know for sure.

What about if I'm in this criteria but still haven't got my 10 yr green card yet? Can I still apply for the citizenship?

My I-751 is still pending and under review... I just wonder. Thank you.

[Anh map 2,098]

What about if I'm in this criteria but still haven't got my 10 yr green card yet? Can I still apply for the citizenship?

My I-751 is still pending and under review... I just wonder. Thank you.

Yes. Applying for the citizenship forces the adjudication of the removal of conditions.

[FRJ 0]

i just got my 10 year gc so i guess within 90 days of feb 19 i can apply for naturalization.

[gizzly 0]

Yes. Applying for the citizenship forces the adjudication of the removal of conditions.

Thank you for your reply. So base on my eligible for PR in Feb 09... I can apply for N-400 in Nov'11 correct?

Thanks.