Physical Presence in USA to maintain Green Card while aplying Citizenship in USA.

[ykdave]

Physical Presence of more than 180 days in USA to be calculated as per calendar year or it should be calculated from the date of entry on Green Card in USA.

In short it calendar year or year should be calculated from date of entry on GC. Pls guide me.

[JoeF]

This is not based on the calendar year.

[newacct]

There is no such thing as "more than 180 days in USA". For naturalization, you need to 1) not lose your green card, 2) meet the continuous residence requirement, i.e. continuous residence for the last 5 years (an absence of more than 6 months is presumed to break continuous residence, although it is possible to overcome the presumption in the case of an absence of between 6 months and 1 year), and 3) meet the physical presence requirement, i.e. physically present for half (2.5 years) of the last 5 years.