Us citizenship?
Answer:
I do not understand your question. When you stated that you were a green card holder, do you mean you are a legal permanent resident? If you are and you became a permanent resident in 2000 you can qualify to apply for U.S. Citizenship once you have been a permanent resident alien for five years or three years if you immigrated trough marriage.
I do not understand when you stated that you applied for a re-entry permit? What type of permit did you apply for?
If you qualify to apply for citizenship, you can apply for it. But base on that you have been living outside the U.S.
Note: There is a lot of requirement that you need to look in the instructions of the N-400. You can obtain the form and more information or to find these forms visit the US CIS web site www.uscis.gov or visit any USCIS office.
You should have applied before your visa expired. Do you want to become a citizen just because your visa has expired, or are you willing to earn the right to be a U.S. citizen ?
If you ignored your 2004 expiration of your visa, reasonable people would assume you chose not to renew it and remain here illegally. Reasonable people would call that willful disregard for the law.
See an immigration lawyer.
you can apply...its very easy, though you should not have let stuff expire...that may hurt the chances..
At least you are making the effort to be legit, that alone gives you a leg up in some areas.
Though who really make the effort will get better help than the illegals who never try to become legal.
If your spouse is a U.S. citizen, you can apply for citizenship after three years of continued residency. If not, you can apply after five years of continued residency in the U.S.A.. If you have gone to vacation during this time in a foreign country and have spent several weeks, that will not effect on your eligibility in counting time for continued residency.
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