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lopakalolo Apprentice

lopakalolo   1

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I'm confused about how to answer Parts 7A & 7B regarding number of past years to go back.

Part 2B states: (I have been a Lawful Permanent Resident of the United States for at least three years, and I have been married to and living with the same U.S. citizen for the last three years, and my spouse has been a U.S. citizen for the last three years)

No problem with Part 2B.

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Part 7A states: (How many total days did you spend outside of the United States during the past five years

Part 7B states: (How many trips of 24 hours or more have you taken outside of the United States during the past five years?)

My Question is: In Part 2B - my wife and I meet the eligibility requirements for the three year time frame, but then Part 7a & 7B are asking you to go back five years. I think this may have been overlooked by the powers to be and the requirement should be to go back for only three years as what we did in travel before that time frame should not be a concern.

Anyone have an answer to this?

Thank you in advance.

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Inky Grand Master

Inky   1,110

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You can cross it out and put 3 years. Or just fill it out as if it was 3 years because you are applying based on 3 year not 5 year.

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Brother Hesekiel Mentor

Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Common question.

Also understand, which is something that is not easily understood and indeed quite confusing, that B is based on A and C is based on B. It's a pyramide.

A asks how many trips since you became a LPR or within the past 5 years.

B asks how many of those trips were longer than 24 hours.

C asks you to list those trips only.

There are people who have had a Green Card for 20 years and totally go gagga when they assume they have to list every trip since 1991.

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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.

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lopakalolo Apprentice

lopakalolo   1

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Common question.

Also understand, which is something that is not easily understood and indeed quite confusing, that B is based on A and C is based on B. It's a pyramide.

A asks how many trips since you became a LPR or within the past 5 years.

B asks how many of those trips were longer than 24 hours.

C asks you to list those trips only.

There are people who have had a Green Card for 20 years and totally go gagga when they assume they have to list every trip since 1991.

Thanks Brudda. Your explanation really does make sense when you look at through the eyes of a government immigration employee. LOL

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