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hello. used to be on here before, but lostr my ID etc so this is a new one :) I hadm\\\ a few questions. Ok here is my situation.

Wife And I (shes from Philippines) married on a K1 in 2007. She got her 10 year GC in 2010. Ok...In late 2010 we gave up our apartment, moved temporary to my mother's home and we changed our addresses with uscis. i was there a few days and I depareted to south korea for a job teaching english...because I didnt have a stable job at home. I called uscis about this, and they were not greatly helpful (since if i changed my address (sponsor) theres really no way to change it to overseas. so i left my mothers house down. i have been in korea since oct 2010 (im comin g home for good in a few days). i lived here and was a resident. my wife, back in the US departed to Philippines to visit her g\family for about 5 months. PLEASE forgive my typing, the keyboard is not working well. she arrived back in the USA and headed to my mother's home. it turned out she had no job so she decided to head to Nevada and spend some time with her girlfriends. she spent couple months there, then went to upstate NY same there, and back to Nevada. she is in nevada now. she worked a little in NY and Nevada while staying with friends. she stayed with them, but she didnt have rent in her name etc. She never changed her AR 11 change of address. Now, my concern is this:

We will be together, back in the US, in a few days. Im leaving Korea for good. When we get back and are together, staying with my ailing father back home...when we change our addresses will we have any problems??? ALSO< WE WERE PLANNING in a few more months to file her citizenship. i know she has to list her jobs for 5 years and her housing for 5 years.

1. should we have any problems if we change our addresses to a joint one when we get homne?

2. When she files for citizenship (4 years with GC) and it says "housing for past 5 years" should those places in Nevada and NY be listed? or not? since she never changed them with AR11?

any advice would truly help. And yes, the trip was worth it here...i have enough money saved to finish some college courses foe my teaching permit :)

ps if she were denied her petition, how long till can reapply?

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Here is what I suggest.

Once you guys are back together in the U.S. "in a few days" as you stated, she files an IR-11 with your then current address. She then needs to wait at least 90 days until she is eligible to file the N-400 based on the residency requirement. After those 90 days, she sends in her N-400. She truthfully lists all her addresses in the U.S and all her jobs. The missing IR-11s will not be an issue for naturalization purposes. It's possible that the I.O. is a bit confused and will ask her about her various moves, and the best strategy here is to be absolutely truthful. Failing to file one or two IR-11s is not going to be a deal breaker.

She will list any addresses since becoming a resident, including those in Nevada and New York. The exact date that matters she will find in front of any of her Green Cards where it says RESIDENT SINCE xx/xx/2008.

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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