Time outside the United States

[immiprocess 1]

How do you guys calculate time outside the United States? I think, there is also a request form, and DHS send records of all exit and entry dates of travller.

[JimmyHou 611]

How do you guys calculate time outside the United States? I think, there is also a request form, and DHS send records of all exit and entry dates of travller.

I don't know about a request form. Almost everyone looks at their passport stamps for their travel dates. Maybe someone else can reply regarding his DHS request form.

Look through your passports and look at the entry and exit stamps. Add up the days. Do not include the day you entered the US or the day you left the US (those count as days in the US).

For example, let's say you left the US for Pakistan on May 3rd and arrived on May 4th and then you left Pakistan on May 15th and arrived in the US on May 15th.

You won't have an exit stamp on the 3rd, but you'll have a Pakistani entry stamp on the 4th.

You'll also have a US entry stamp on the 15th and maybe a Pakistani exit stamp on the 15th.

So by looking at your passport you can figure out your travel dates. Just remember that when you leave the US heading east you often arrive the next day. So your date of exit would be the day before your Pakistani entry stamp.

In the above example, you would have been outside the US from the 4th to the 14th or 11 days.

From the USCIS policy manual:

USCIS will count the day that an applicant departs from the United States and the day he or she returns as days of physical presence within the United States for naturalization purposes

http://www.uscis.gov/policymanual/HTML/PolicyManual-Volume12-PartD-Chapter4.html

[Boiler 45,516]

I have not heard of a request form, do you have a link?