N-400 Part 6 A & B Question - Please Help

[jsammy]

Please read and provide your suggestions. I have two questions regarding N-400 Part 6 A and B. I left the company which sponsored my Green Card in 2004 just two months before I got my GC approved and joined my current employer. I-485 was pending almost two years before this, so AC21 is applicable. No AC21 paperwork was filed, however. I permanently moved to my new employer’s city in 2004 few months after getting the GC and living at the same address ever since.

Now I am preparing the N-400 application, I have two questions. How to answer Part 6 A (where have I lived during the last five years)? Do I need to give the date from 2004 or can I give the date 5 years from the date of N-400 application (i.e. 2007 June)?

Similarly for Part 6 B (where have I worked during the last 5 years), do I need to give the date from 2004 (i.e. 2 months before green card approval) or can I give the date 5 years from the date of N-400 application (i.e. 2007 June). The second option looks better, but I do not want to appear that I am hiding something by not showing the date as from 2004, i.e. I joined my current employer before my GC was approved.

I would very much appreciate your suggestions. Thanks.

[osweiti50]

As you can see the N-400 application form has been structured in a way to meet the USCIS criteria for naturalization and nothing else.This is a very official form on which very important decision will be taken...it is your naturalization credentials to become a US Citizen. So, your answers for these two questions must be precise and will provide the data for the last 5 year immediately before your N-400 is filed. You don't need to put more than you are asked/requested to put. Only the last 5 years before your N-400 filing date. Good Luck

[jsammy]

N-400 Part 6 A & B Question - Please Help

Thank you very much osweiti50. From your answer, I take that if I am signing and sending the N-400 form on 06/15/2012, for both Part 6 A and B I should enter the dates as 06/15/2007. I would appreciate your answer / confirmation.

[osweiti50]

6A) Where have you lived during the last five years?.......
Yes you need to put the data related to last five years only.

6B) Where have you worked (or if you were student.....) during the last five years?......
Yes you need to put the data related to last five years only.

Wish you the best of Luck.

By the way you will fill your N-400 on June 15,2012....June 15 is my Birth Day.....Cheers
NOTE: MAKE SURE THAT YOUR FILING DATE IS 89/90 DAYS ONLY BEFORE YOUR 5TH ANNIVERSARY DATE AS LAWFUL PERMANENT RESIDENT.

[jsammy]

Thanks osweiti50. Also, have a nice B'day.