Finger printing is completed but will be moving out of US for a brief period


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Hello:

After applying for US citizenship in Dec 2015, our finger printing has been completed last month (in Seattle). I believe it might take a while before we get an interview appointment. My question to the forum is:

1.      Am I allowed to take up a job outside the US (leaving for a faculty job in September), but wanted to come back for the interview? Is this a hindrance to the Citizenship?

2.      Of course, we will maintain a US residential address (example: directing the mail to relatives by sending the change of address to USCIS) so that we can come back to attend the interview?

Please advise the pros and cons.

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RpRam - No one has responded, however JoeF and Ponte..are the best on this website who give a solid rather authentic response! So I have read their reply to you, and I could not have agreed more! Bottom line is until you get the US Passport, you are still a Green card holder, so PR is simply PR, period, so behave:) So I will wait and see regarding the arrival of a letter for my Interview.

Interestingly, my wife whose finger printing was done in January 2016 (as compared to mine in Dec 2015 - Seattle) already has her interview date for April. I have been in USA for a while and moved to different schools and worked at different places (6 states in total), whereas my wife came to US in 2005 after our marriage (and lived in 2 states). So I am not sure if my stay in 6 states is taking its time for FBI-verification, but my wife is ecstatic! at least she is the lucky one! 

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If you move out of the US, you would lose the GC. And without GC, obviously no naturalization.

For a Permanent Resident, any trip abroad has to be temporary in nature, with a clear ending date.

Taking up a faculty job is not temporary. Something like a Post-Doc could be seen as temporary, since Post-Doc contracts have a clear ending date.

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Thanks JoeF and Pontevechhio - I got your message, loud and clear! Much respect to both of you! Yes, as I mentioned in my previous note, PR is a PR and NOT a citizen, so I will stay put here and postpone my Faculty joining date! Ponte..I will see what I can do in terms of the Federal senator suggestion! However, we are surprised to receive an interview note to my wife so early after the fingerprinting (just in less than 3 months)! Again, much respect to both you, and your knowledge on these issues are impeccable! 

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