Travel dates

[kcash 0]

Hi all my mum is about the file for her citizenship. Trouble is she does not remember all her travel dates. She has however not traveled out in the last two years. Should she just apply on the basis of my dad being a citizen for over 3 years to avoid all the travel questions or that could hurt her. Her green card was not marriage based.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Your mom can only apply for naturalization based on the fact that she has been a permanent resident for at least 5 years, nothing else.

She will have to list her absences for the past 5 years to the best of her ability. Her passport, flight tickets, boarding passes, and credit card statements (for the ticket or purchases made in the foreign country) may help her in doing that. I assume she took a vacation once a year, most likely to her home country, so it should not be too hard to nail that down.

[DrVS 10]

Your mom can only apply for naturalization based on the fact that she has been a permanent resident for at least 5 years, nothing else.

This is incorrect. Assuming that your mom and dad were married to each other for the last 3 years and still are married to each other, and your dad was a citizen for all 3 years, your mom has a right to apply under 3 year rule.

[NickD 203]

Too bad your IO didn't inform you about that I-751 and N-400 during that AOS stage. Wrote those down after our AOS, and downloaded those forms, read the instructions, and knew for the next three years, would be keeping a whole pile of records.

Still need to see a therapist as still have a strong urge to maintain all those records, maybe your mom can see a hypnotist to remember those dates. USCIS takes residency requirements very seriously. Same holds true for the five year for those dates. Since I had that N-400 on my computer, filled in those blanks each time my stepdaughter took a trip. But still downloaded the latest form, even though it didn't changed and copied and pasted all that information to the new form.

[kcash 0]

So she will lickly be denied because of the dates even if she meets the residency requirement of not leaving the country in the last 30 months?

[kcash 0]

Update. My mum became a USC today. She took all her travel documents to the interview and when asked about time out she said she could not remember all the dates but she has not travelled in the last 20 months and no trip outside has lasted more than 6 months. Looks like that was good enough reason for the IO . Was a relief. Thanks for your input everyone.