Nicolaszz

It wasn't a few years, just the first year. I was enrolled in college in the US within a year, and was getting my affairs in order before officially moving. I can't apply yet as my 5 year anniversary will be in June 2025. Am just anxious cause I might have to go on an assignment abroad sometime in the next year so I wanted to get my naturalization done and dusted and not have to deal with a headache of breaking continuous residence.

I have spent over 30 months. But why is it needed to prove that the US was still my primary residence? I never broke my continuous residence since I never was absent for more than 6 months. https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-8/chapter-I/subchapter-C/part-316/section-316.5. My longest trip was ~140-150 days

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-12-part-d-chapter-3 In chapter 3. Summary, it says that if your absence was less than 6 months, then you do not need to overcome a presumption of breaking the continious residence part and you are eligible to apply for naturalization. Before I came here, during the 2020-2021, when telling people that I need to make back and forth trips of a couple months to get my affairs in order, people here would tell me that it's going to make me lose my green card. Yet I never got asked a single question at customs in 4 trips overall.. I feel this forum overcomplicates things.

I didn't. It just asked if I've taken any trips longer than 6 months, which I haven't. Is there any other calculator? Also, what would I lose if I applied and didn't get accepted?

Yes, which is what is not clear to me. I plugged the numbers in the naturalization calculator, and it said that I should be eligible to apply come March 2025, since I haven't taken trips longer than 6 months to break continuous residency. I'm just wondering how this would come up in a naturalization interview.

I didn't have a job. I was only 17-18. I enrolled in college in the US in August 2021, but it was online during COVID. How can I try to persuade them that my residency was in the US since 2020 but I had to get my affairs in order (which I really did) back home before physically resided permanently? My mom applied for taxes as a non filer during that 2020-2021 period where we hadn't yet officially moved in to the US. Would that be helpful at all?

Yes, but I never left for more than 6 months to maintain continuous residency. Not sure if that would change the case.

Hey guys! I came here in June 2020 on a green card from Lebanon. I spent ~2 months in June 2020 - August 2020, then came again in December 2020 and spent ~1-2 months till Late January 2021. Afterwards, I came in June/July 2021, enrolled in college in the US, stayed till approx September October 2021 (college was online at the time), then went back to Lebanon. Did college online and then moved here to the US permanently in January 2022. Will I be eligible to apply for citizenship this summer? My physical presence has been more than 2.5 years but I'm worried they won't count that first year where I went back and forth as residency. I had to do college In Lebanon because it was too late to apply after I got my green card I never stayed more than 180 days outside the country.