When is the right time to apply for citizenship

[Mohammad 0]

Hi guys

first of all i am gonna tell my story then i will ask my question

I Married to US citizen and have been resident since August 2010 ( this what is written on my green card ). the bad news that we left the US for 10 months from September 2010 till July 2011

So my questions is that when can i apply for citizenship 1- ( i think it is the right time ) is July 2014

2- August 2013

FWI : i didn't intend to abandon my residency it was too much going on ( wife was pregnant , Revolution in Egypt where we lived...ETC)

Thank you and looking forward to hear your options

Mo

[souleymon 27]

As soon as your eligible

[Jessica24 3]

Hi guys

first of all i am gonna tell my story then i will ask my question

I Married to US citizen and have been resident since August 2010 ( this what is written on my green card ). the bad news that we left the US for 10 months from September 2010 till July 2011

So my questions is that when can i apply for citizenship 1- ( i think it is the right time ) is July 2014

2- August 2013

FWI : i didn't intend to abandon my residency it was too much going on ( wife was pregnant , Revolution in Egypt where we lived...ETC)

Thank you and looking forward to hear your options

Mo

Since you have been out of the US for 10 months and not a yr, you can secure your continuous residence criteria if you can prove to the USCIS that you did not intend to break the continuous residence. For this, you can send in evidence(as listed below) to establish the fact you had been maintaining ties to the US during that period.

• IRS transcripts that lists the tax information for the past 3 yrs
  
• Rent or mortgage payments
  

If your evidence is accepted, it may be possible for you to file in August 2013. Good Luck!!

[Mohammad 0]

As soon as your eligible

Thank you you are very helpful

[warlord 73]

Plus when you do apply, you will have to demonstrate proof to the officer that you did not intend to abandon the Green Card. So hopefully you had strong ties to the US still that you can use to show you were coming back. Having a US job still would be very helpful and hope they sent you to Egypt to work. If you were back because of some family issue etc, proof of that could also help out.

So just remember it will be the nature of why you went to Egypt, what you were doing there, and all the ties you had back in the US that you will have to show the IO.

So right now you have 2 things to look at, continuous residency and abandonment of the Green Card that you need to prove. You probably will be ok with the abandonment issue, but good chance they will reset your clock...

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Hi guys

first of all i am gonna tell my story then i will ask my question

I Married to US citizen and have been resident since August 2010 ( this what is written on my green card ). the bad news that we left the US for 10 months from September 2010 till July 2011

So my questions is that when can i apply for citizenship 1- ( i think it is the right time ) is July 2014

2- August 2013

FWI : i didn't intend to abandon my residency it was too much going on ( wife was pregnant , Revolution in Egypt where we lived...ETC)

Thank you and looking forward to hear your options

Mo

There are two requirements: continuous residence and continuous presence.

Assuming you stay married, you would be able to become a U.S. citizen 3 years after having become a resident. That would be August 2013. However, when you have been abroad from the U.S. for 6 months, your residency clock stops. So you need to calculate the amount of days you have been abroad from day 180 'til you came back, which would be something in the neighborhood of 120 days. Then add these days to your magic date in August of 2013 and you'll arrive at a date somewhere in December of 2013.

That's playing it safe and that's what I would advise you to do.

[Mohammad 0]

Thank you everybody i can relax now and worry about it when July 2014 will come

I'd been out the states for 10 months which is 300 days So August 2013 + 10 months absence = somewhere July 2014 ( Is my math right )

Thanx again

Mo

[Mohammad 0]

Thank You Brother Hesekiel

I got it now

[warlord 73]

Thank you everybody i can relax now and worry about it when July 2014 will come

I'd been out the states for 10 months which is 300 days So August 2013 + 10 months absence = somewhere July 2014 ( Is my math right )

Thanx again

Mo

Yes as long as you can prove to the IO then that you did not abandon your Green Card on that trip, then you should be fine...