Section 319(b) of INA, Naturalization Spouse

[gendna2 1]

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.eb1d4c2a3e5b9ac89243c6a7543f6d1a/?vgnextoid=8aa13e4d77d73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD&vgnextchannel=8aa13e4d77d73210VgnVCM100000082ca60aRCRD

The above link takes you to the USCIS page that explains a law which supposedly allows a foreign spouse, who has her green card, conditional or otherwise, to receive her citizenship if her US citizen spouse is deployed overseas.

For any of you familiar with this law I have two questions.

1. Does this apply to one year or greater deployments to places where you cannot bring your foreign spouse, aka Afghanistan?

2. Does this law apply to US territories overseas?

Please let me know what you all think.

[lierre 224]

I think this part right here under Expedited Naturalization for Spouses of Military Members answers your two questions:

Declare in good faith upon naturalization an intent to reside abroad with the U.S. citizen spouse and to reside in the U.S. immediately upon the citizen spouse’s termination of service abroad

If it's an unaccompanied tour and if the location abroad is a US territory, then it doesn't qualify for the expedite.

A non-US Citizen who will still live in US soil will have no use for an expedited process anyway.

[BB Family 299]

We are filing under 319(b) now. Your service member has to be currently serving overseas or have orders to go And you as the spouse have orders to go with him.