N-400 form - Part 5. Information about residence

[Iusticia 1]

Hello everyone,

I would appreciate some help with my questions.

 

Our naturalization process is years away but I want to be well-prepared so I'm collecting the information needed. My husband and I arrived in the country with EB-1 visas, we have no family here at all.

 

Our situation with the residence is a bit complicated but I'm trying to keep it simple.

1. POE: JFK When we entered the country, we changed the address we had given to NVC and gave the immigration officer the address of his then-a-future boss but we never lived at that address. (Our green cards arrived there though) - Address 1.

2. In the first 4 days we stayed in NYC for a short visit, in a hotel, and USCIS was not told about this address. - Address 2. (?)

3. After NYC, we flew into the state we live in. In the first month, we lived in an Airbnb apartment and USCIS did not know this address. - Address 3. (?)

4. After we moved to our permanent address, we filed the AR-11 form online and changed address 1. to the current one.

 

The N-400 form part 5. says to list every location where someone has lived during the last (previous) five years.

 

My questions are:

- Does the last 5 years mean 5 calendar years, from January to December, or exactly 60 months from the filling of the form?

- Which addresses should we give on the N-400 form from the above ones?

 

If you need more information or clarification, please ask me. Thank you so much for your help in advance.

 

 

 

[NorthByNorthwest 391]

6 minutes ago, Iusticia said:

My questions are:

- Does the last 5 years mean 5 calendar years, from January to December, or exactly 60 months from the filling of the form?

- Which addresses should we give on the N-400 form from the above ones?

 

If you need more information or clarification, please ask me. Thank you so much for your help in advance.

 

 

 

The 5 years mean 5 years since becoming a permanent resident, the time in the US before getting LPR does not matter.

 

[Iusticia 1]

I'm sorry, I've just realized that I posted in the wrong subforum. Someone can move it, please? Thank you!

[Iusticia 1]

Thank you NorthByNorthwest! I know that the time before getting LPR does not matter. But I became an LPR before all the addresses I wrote about. (the time of my entry is the start of my LPR)

[NorthByNorthwest 391]

15 minutes ago, Iusticia said:

Thank you NorthByNorthwest! I know that the time before getting LPR does not matter. But I became an LPR before all the addresses I wrote about. (the time of my entry is the start of my LPR)

Got it, in that case it is every place you have lived in the past 5 years counting back from filing, it is not calendar years. The online form will not accept any gaps in the residence period, so I would just go with any places you have physically stayed at, even if it is a hotel or Airbnb. Otherwise you could run into issues if you list periods that do not match rental contracts etc. 

[Marieke H 2,524]

59 minutes ago, Iusticia said:

4. After we moved to our permanent address, we filed the AR-11 form online and changed address 1. to the current one.

If you want to avoid having to include the messy period of time where you stayed in hotels, AirBnB, etc, which does not fully align with the addresses USCIS has on file for you, you can file the N-400 5 years after this date when you moved to your permanent address. You only need to include 5 years of residence history, so you can then omit the month or so before you moved to your permanent address.

[Iusticia 1]

1 minute ago, Marieke H said:

If you want to avoid having to include the messy period of time where you stayed in hotels, AirBnB, etc, which does not fully align with the addresses USCIS has on file for you, you can file the N-400 5 years after this date when you moved to your permanent address. You only need to include 5 years of residence history, so you can then omit the month or so before you moved to your permanent address.

Thank you so much Marieke H! I was thinking about the same thing, thanks.

25 minutes ago, NorthByNorthwest said:

Got it, in that case it is every place you have lived in the past 5 years counting back from filing, it is not calendar years. The online form will not accept any gaps in the residence period, so I would just go with any places you have physically stayed at, even if it is a hotel or Airbnb. Otherwise you could run into issues if you list periods that do not match rental contracts etc. 

Thank you again NorthByNortwest!

[Chancy 6,244]

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