Affidavit of physical presence and support

[bellez214 9]

Hi everyone. I am looking forward for some clarifications regarding this requirement for CRBA.

" The father was physically present in the United States or its outlying possessions prior to the child’s birth for five years, at least two of which were after reaching the age of 14. "

I was wondering if my husband is qualified on this section. His situation is,he migrated to US through his parents petition at age of 19 in 2002 and he was naturalized last May 2012. So my question is :

[u]at least two of which were after reaching the age of 14. "

does it mean that he has to be in the US at age of 14?

I have an appointment tomorrow with US consulate and still confused about it.

Edited December 17, 2012 by Belle klein

[hikergirl 277]

No, it means that your husband would have had to have lived in the US for 5 years with at least 2 after the age of 14.

For example if your husband was born in the US but moved to another country at 15 and remained there he could not pass his citizenship on to his child because he hadn't lived in the US for two years after the age of 14.

Your husband qualifies to pass his citizenship on to your child. From the timeline above it looks like he's lived in the US for 10 1/2 years after the age of 14.

Edited December 17, 2012 by hikergirl

[bellez214 9]

No, it means that your husband would have had to have lived in the US for 5 years with at least 2 after the age of 14.

For example if your husband was born in the US but moved to another country at 15 and remained there he could not pass his citizenship on to his child because he hadn't lived in the US for two years after the age of 14.

Your husband qualifies to pass his citizenship on to your child. From the timeline above it looks like he's lived in the US for 10 1/2 years after the age of 14.

Thank you so much for that. Now I am okay with that. This is really a big help.

As a follow up question to the form he had some mistakes on filling up the form.

In terms of his vacation, he entered April 29, 2008 instead of May 02, 2008 his arrival date at his destination. He went for vacation in PI on May 02, 2008 as it had stamped on his passport but he entered wrongly on the affidavit of physical presence. On this matter I am so anxious that it is invalid to present to the consular officer at Us consulate.

what can you say about this? I am afraid they will consider and it will be the reason to get denied on our CrBA application.

[Penguin_ie 5,993]

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[hikergirl 277]

Thank you so much for that. Now I am okay with that. This is really a big help.

As a follow up question to the form he had some mistakes on filling up the form.

In terms of his vacation, he entered April 29, 2008 instead of May 02, 2008 his arrival date at his destination. He went for vacation in PI on May 02, 2008 as it had stamped on his passport but he entered wrongly on the affidavit of physical presence. On this matter I am so anxious that it is invalid to present to the consular officer at Us consulate.

what can you say about this? I am afraid they will consider and it will be the reason to get denied on our CrBA application.

I've never done a CRBA but looking at the form it looks to me that it wouldn't be the date he got to the PI, it would be the date he left the US so if he had layover times and/or crossed over the dateline his date could be correct.

The form is asking for the dates of physical presence in the US not the dates he was in the other countries.

I read on here of a lot of PI people laying over in Japan which is a day ahead of us (right now it's the 18th there already), I'm thinking it's quite plausible that it looks like he traveled for a couple of days.