Travel Restrictions After Getting CR-1 Visa?

[millefleur 5,046]

**Moved from IR-1 / CR-1 Spouse Visa Process & Procedures to Working & Traveling During US Immigration; topic is travel**

[pushbrk 12,892]

3 hours ago, Lil bear said:

I agree totally with over 6 months in a single absence disrupting continuity of residency ... but less than 6 months doesn’t from what I read. But multiple trips less than six months each MAY cumulatively be a problem for the physical presence test on its own. 

Only in the way I already explained it.  The 3 or 5 years is extended one day for each night outside the USA.  You FIND this in naturalization worksheets and instructions, not immigrant visa process information.  Check out the N400 sometime.  Anybody planning on Naturalizing from a green card, needs to be keeping track of each trip outside the US, countries visited and actual dates, including the number of nights outside the USA.

[pushbrk 12,892]

3 hours ago, Gitana said:

please would you point where exactly is written about setting clock to zero? i seem to find only 18 month continuous residence preceding the filing

 

Read the information about naturalization.  There's a wonderful worksheet to go through first.  Download it.  Study it.

 

Don't confuse maintaining resident status with qualifications for Naturalization

[Juniper 62]

10 hours ago, pushbrk said:

Maybe it's you interpretation or complete reading.  If you leave more than six months, you start at zero.  Read this in the worksheet for naturalization.

 

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"If you leave more than six months, you start at zero."

 

Wrong

 

10 hours ago, pushbrk said:

Don't assume.  Read again, read more, or just take what I told you as correct.  Additionally, being gone six months or more resets the calendar to zero.  You're right about spending the majority of time in the US but that's for maintaining residency, not naturalization.  Two different subjects, but four months out per year is inside that.

"Don't assume.  Read again, read more, or just take what I told you as correct.  Additionally, being gone six months or more resets the calendar to zero."

(with respect to naturalization)

 

Wrong

 

1 hour ago, pushbrk said:

Read the information about naturalization.  There's a wonderful worksheet to go through first.  Download it.  Study it.

 

Don't confuse maintaining resident status with qualifications for Naturalization

"There's a wonderful worksheet to go through first.  Download it.  Study it."

 

Ok let's do it, here's the naturalization worksheet:

 

Attachment A - Question 4:

During the past three years, I have not been out of the country for 18 months or more.

 

If you answered “True” to all four questions, go to Question 5 on page 1.

 

Question 5 on page 1:

During the last five years (or the last three years if I qualify under Attachment A), I have not taken a trip out of the      United States that lasted one year or more.

 

End of relevant questions in naturalization worksheet.

 

So statements that the naturalization clock resets at 6 months in duration out of the USA are wrong.

[Lil bear 4,217]

3 hours ago, pushbrk said:

Read the information about naturalization.  There's a wonderful worksheet to go through first.  Download it.  Study it.

 

Don't confuse maintaining resident status with qualifications for Naturalization

Can you please give me the link for the worksheet to which you are referring. I am familiar with the N400 and is instructions off and the Naturalization worksheet that is associated with it from the USCIS.. but I’m still missing finding the statement referring to the impact of every day out of the US on the process. I am well aware that records of each trip.. departure date , return date, countries visited and number of days out of the US .... are required for the completion of the N400 

 

Thanks 

[Gitana 11]

16 hours ago, Lil bear said:

Can you help me understand what you’re saying here ? I’ve read the USCIS information on eligibility and don’t get the sense that absences under 12 months add extra time to the 3 years. I see the continued residence of 3 years.. which is not interrupted by trips of less than 12 months , and the physical presence of 18 months in the previous 3 years ... but I can’t seem to see the requirement  you are referring to. 

https://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartG-Chapter3.html

 

thx !! 

i read and re-read all links and i disagree with interpretation of other gentleman. it's absolutely clear that accumulative presense has to be 18 month for PR through marriage (30 month for others), and continuous residence is not something that is calculated by USCIs but more determinated based on the lenghts of your trips abroad

[Lil bear 4,217]

6 hours ago, Gitana said:

i read and re-read all links and i disagree with interpretation of other gentleman. it's absolutely clear that accumulative presense has to be 18 month for PR through marriage (30 month for others), and continuous residence is not something that is calculated by USCIs but more determinated based on the lenghts of your trips abroad

That’s my reading. Trip days do add up.. but unless they total more than 30 months  in 5 years, or 18 months  in 3 years, the eligibility date for naturalisation isn’t affected. Continuous residency must also be met. 

[Lil bear 4,217]

19 hours ago, pushbrk said:

Read the information about naturalization.  There's a wonderful worksheet to go through first.  Download it.  Study it.

 

Don't confuse maintaining resident status with qualifications for Naturalization

@pushbrk.   I would really appreciate if you can direct me to what I am interpreting incorrectly. Thx 

[pushbrk 12,892]

6 hours ago, Lil bear said:

@pushbrk.   I would really appreciate if you can direct me to what I am interpreting incorrectly. Thx 

When I get time.  I'll look it up.  In the meantime, go ahead and consider I could possibly be wrong.  I'm human.  Also not a paid employee of yours.

[Lil bear 4,217]

8 minutes ago, pushbrk said:

When I get time.  I'll look it up.  In the meantime, go ahead and consider I could possibly be wrong.  I'm human.  Also not a paid employee of yours.

Thx I appreciate  it. I do not want to be incorrect in my comments on here due to ignorance... we are all human . 😁