Timely advice is always welcome and is provided by El Nuevo Herald, with reference to the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). It has to do with the free tool that allows you to find out if you can apply for US citizenship.

With that tool – ​​Naturalization Eligibility Tool – “you do not need an online USCIS account to verify your eligibility for citizenship.”

Before you start the N-400 Naturalization Application, they indicate that it is good that you answer some questions to know if you are eligible to apply for US citizenship through naturalization.

These questions, they say on the USCIS site, “are solely intended to help you determine whether you may be eligible to file the naturalization application (N-400).”

This tool does not determine whether you actually qualify for citizenship. After you submit your application, USCIS will review your information and determine whether you qualify for citizenship through naturalization.

What are the most common questions on the oral exam to obtain United States citizenship?

Those questions could be:

1. Were one or both parents U.S. citizens when you were born?

2. How old are you?

3. Are you a member of the United States Armed Forces?

The United States Armed Forces includes the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and certain components of the National Guard and the Armed Forces Selected Ready Reserve Force.

4. Are you a legal permanent resident?

A lawful permanent resident is someone who has been granted permanent resident status in the United States under U.S. immigration laws, and who typically holds a Permanent Resident Card (formerly known as an Alien Registration Card or also called a Permanent Resident Card ). ).

5. When did you become a legal permanent resident?

For this question, the tool offers three options to choose one:

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6. Have you left the US in the last five years?

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Immigration pays attention to details such as whether the applicant has made several short trips, which in reality are one long trip, El Nuevo Herald notes.

“Many immigrants travel abroad for 5 months and 15 days, return to the country for about 15 days and then leave again for another 5 months. The immigration officer may consider that journey as a long journey of more than ten months.”

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7. Have any of your trips outside the US lasted longer than six months?

As a general rule, permanent residents are not allowed to travel outside the US for a period of six months or more.

8. Are you married to a US citizen?

Select ‘no’ if you are divorced or legally separated, if your marriage has been annulled or if your spouse has died.

9. Do you have American nationality?

For more information about the Naturalization Eligibility Tool, please go here

With information from El Nuevo Herald and USCIS

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