N-400 Part 7

[Sara Jane 0]

Can anyone help me with Part 7?? I am applying for citizenship after being a PR for 3 1/2 years (married a US citizen). Part 7 A and B ask about how much time I spent outside of the US over the last 5 years, but I'm not sure how to answer since I've only been a PR for 3 1/2 years (not the normal 5 years). Anyone else run into this problem? I called USCIS and they were no help AT ALL! So frustrated.

[Sirdaniel42 86]

I would go with the Legal Permanent Residency since date, Part C gives a little hint (others will chime in).

Have a look at this post, found it with the search function in the blue menu bar!

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/406014-n-400-filling-out-time-outside-of-the-us/

Edited January 22, 2014 by Sirdaniel42

[Shub 78]

They only care about your trips outside of the US since you became a permanent resident (look up the exact date on your green card).

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

You are not the first person who is smarter than the morons who created those forms.

The question is to be understood as "the past 5 years or from the time you became a resident." So if you had your Green Card for 35 years, you'd only have to list the past 5 years, as you probably wouldn't remember when you traveled back in 1979 anyway. So look at your Green Card and check out the date you become a resident. That's the date that counts and that's the point in time from which you need to list your absence from the United States.