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Either is fine as long as you're not close to minimum physical presence in the last 3 or 5 years

You have to live in your jurisdiction for 90+ days. Even though not legally required, I wouldn't apply for US citizenship immiediately after a long trip (say 5 months). Just to be on safe side. At the same time, if you were away for few weeks, no problem applying immediately upon return.

There is a chance you'd have to explain all the ties to your home. It doesn't look like much holding you there. You may get denied entry. Just read @SalishSea reply. If CBP asks how long you're coming for and you say "5-6" months, the whole thing can unravel. You cannot lie to them either, saying you're coming for 2 weeks but in fact staying for 6 months, this would complicate or make impossible your future immigraton history in the US. Good luck!

December 2024 filers stats as of 03/16/2025 @ 1:51 AM ET: Approved: 1727 Denied: 18 Fingerprints Scheduled: 313 Interview Cancelled: 152 Interview Scheduled: 9844 Pending: 4 Processing: 14153 Received: 14 ResponseToRFE: 30 RFE: 232 Terminated: 6 Withdrawal: 38 OathCeremonyNotice: 1077 OathCeremonyScheduled: 918 OathCeremonyReady: 2 OathCeremonyCancelled:8 Note OathCeremonyCancelled:8, this is new.

Everything is possible with USCIS. Some green cards are approved within 2 months of filing. But blazing fast approvals are not commonplace.

That's a great idea

36 months extension is old news. There's 48 months extension since some time in 2023. In fact, everybody who have pending case should have received 48 months extension automatically. I received my 48 months extension after 24 months in 2023. If you haven't received it, it's a bit worrying. Did you move to new address? There's danger USCIS sent you letters and you missed them. Request 48 months extension here: https://egov.uscis.gov/e-request/ndn

Only you and her can make that decision. If you apply now, there's a chance of biometrics appointment and smaller, but still change for interview. If you can afford losing the Mid May trip, you can take a chance and apply now. Whatever you do, I recommend prioritizing naturalization over anything else. There was this thread where somebody pushed their oath several times to the point it got complicated:

No problem. Tax return transcripts from IRS website is what you need. Download and print them.

Yep, if she never called police on you, that was probably her plan. Come to your place without a witness, provoke and call cops on you to help her VAWA. Glad you didn't fall for it.

Estimated time in MyProgress can be safely ignored. It's inaccurate, jumps up and down, sometimes completely disappears causing stress to many users.

Not a problem. Make sure to take your naturalization cert from Canada proving your name change, to N-400 interview.

I'd give it more time, another week or two. Then reach out to them. 4-8 weeks is normal, and it appears it's been 3 weeks so far in your case.

Then answer is No whether you sponsored anybody.

You can pick 3 years bases on VAWA or 5 years on general provision. The whole immigration history including VAWA related events may be reviewed at N-400 regardless of when you decide to naturalize.

Found previous thread where I posted same advice...

Interview is the last thing you want, because I foresee it being a stokes interview. You'd be separated and grilled for some time with different questions about you, your spouse, marriage and other things. If some answers won't match, officer may accuse you of fraud. Or scare US citizen spouse into withdrawing their support of your I-751. The living arrangement, again, may raise some brows at USCIS. Do you at least have matching state IDs / DLs with same address? Do you have Costco / Sam's Club membership listing both names? Amazon household account? Shared phone plan? Letters from friends and family to both of you showing current address? You really need to think hard how to prove the marriage. The worst case, you may eventually lose GC if you can't provide enough proof of bonafide marriage

It's an urban myth. K-3 has no proven impact on I-130.

It's an urban myth. K-3 has no proven impact on I-130.

Nobody so far was able to explain logically why USCIS would give somebody preference and process I-130 faster if free K-3 form was filed. Nobody so far was able to prove correlation between K-3 filing and faster approval. Occasionally, filers who had both I-130 and K-3 were approved fast. However, random luck also applies to different cases at USCIS. For example, while majority of I-751 filers wait around 2 years, some lucky users (less than 0.5%) get approved super fast, within a month. They don't file anything else special, they're not married to a member of military or anything else. Just regular people. Yes, there is correlation between I-130 approval forcing K-3 getting closed. But I don't see how and why K-3 would speed up I-130 approval. Good luck!

It is indeed a problem. That's probably why USCIS cannot approve the case, as they don't see enough evidence of bonafide marriage. I agree with @Boiler in asking why coming up with evidence is difficult in a legitimate marriage?

I think you seriously annoyed or confused them by skipping oath several times, asking them for a favor to reverse decision and skipping oath again. From a simple straightforward case, your case turned into bureaucrat's nightmare hence they're sitting on it. At this point, I'd recommend seeking legal help to clean this up. Ideally, you should have applied for N-400 later, after sorting all issues back home and attended the very first oath date no matter what. But it's water under the bridge now. Good luck and keep us posted!

Sponsor, sponsoring, sponsorship, sponsored. I'd say the answer is YES if you filled I-864A before for your husband sponsoring his parents.

She should get second attempt and another interview, as far as I know. Only after second attempt she'd file another N-400 form. If she fails on second attempt, I'd wait before filing N-400 to ensure she's fluent in English.

Since you became a resident in July 2021. Technically, there's no big difference between conditional resident and normal permanent resident in most cases, other than conditional has to remove conditions.