When do I file for citizenship?

[VanessaTony 3,567]

The directions state:

Your link proves what I am saying. The person in the thread you linked had been married 3 years and 9 months when they applied for N400.

Maybe you are missing a part of the conversation here. Messybrownhair got her GC approved something like 67 days after she got married. Record time! (I know you have sigs turned off).

So most people in those forum applying on the 3 year rule would be safe applying 90 days before the "resident since" date on their GCs. Those people would have been married for longer than 3 months by the time they got their GCs approved. Now Messy, since she was so fast, will not have been married a full 3 years if she were to go by the "resident" since" date and nothing else. A person must meet all other requirements at the time of filing. That means she must wait for her 3rd year of anniversary of marriage to file, which is after the 2 years 9 months date based on her GC.

Only at that time will she meet all the requirements. There are multiple requirements to be met. Her super fast GC approval made her case a little different from normal.

The person in that link obviously had a typo and meant to type 2 instead of 3. Other people further down the thread confirm that they had the same situation, having to wait because they hadn't reached 3 years yet.

I still disagree but maybe things have changed since I read that thread because I know of multiple instances. Either way it's not a huge deal.

it's very exciting to be ALMOST done with the process. What do most people do with their certificate? Do they frame it? Or do they make a copy and frame the copy? What do people do to celebrate? Some sort of party after the Oath or something?

Edited March 6, 2013 by Vanessa&Tony

[bigdog 376]

Have fun and study for the test.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

The person in that link obviously had a typo and meant to type 2 instead of 3. Other people further down the thread confirm that they had the same situation, having to wait because they hadn't reached 3 years yet.

I still disagree but maybe things have changed since I read that thread because I know of multiple instances. Either way it's not a huge deal.

it's very exciting to be ALMOST done with the process. What do most people do with their certificate? Do they frame it? Or do they make a copy and frame the copy? What do people do to celebrate? Some sort of party after the Oath or something?

They mean 3 years of being LPR, not 3 years of being married.

Anyway, I don't know what people do... My husband isn't doing it because he's a spoilsport I suppose it depends on how much it means to them. What are you going to do?