Hello Everyone
I was hoping that I could get some advice regarding my specific situation
I understand that not even a lawyer can tell me what will happen, so the intention of this post is to just know an opinion/advice of what you would do if you were in my situation
Timeline:
1: I’ve been a Permanent Resident since 2009, I was 19-20 years old at the time, my dad sponsored me (he is a citizen)
2: My parents decided not to live in the USA at the moment, and I continued living with them while studying, studying design, graduated and ended up getting a job in the USA (San Diego) around 2015.
3: I started to cross the border daily to go to work while I was living in Mexico, I never had an issue doing so
4: I lived in the USA for short periods of time during this time
5: On February 2021 I decided to live full time in the USA, live in the USA for 5 years (while visiting family/friends in Mexico only during the weekends)
6: I Finally have the 5 years under my belt and I spent way more than half of every year during these 5 years, gathered all documents to prove that I did too.
Now, I am getting advice and paying for a lawyer to help me with the process, and she suggested that we should go ahead and do it, however my concern is that they are going to ask: “Have you been living in the USA since you got your green card? And if that happens, I am basically screwed and they could even remove my card and deny my citizenship application.
So basically, I have 2 options:
1: Continue just using my green card to work and cross the border every weekend
2: Apply for citizenship and risk it all to get the citizenship
Again, I know that nobody can tell me what will happen, I am looking for opinions/advice based on experience.
Btw, my record is completely clean, no children, not married, I pay my taxes every year
Thank you for reading.
I was hoping that I could get some advice regarding my specific situation
I understand that not even a lawyer can tell me what will happen, so the intention of this post is to just know an opinion/advice of what you would do if you were in my situation
Timeline:
1: I’ve been a Permanent Resident since 2009, I was 19-20 years old at the time, my dad sponsored me (he is a citizen)
2: My parents decided not to live in the USA at the moment, and I continued living with them while studying, studying design, graduated and ended up getting a job in the USA (San Diego) around 2015.
3: I started to cross the border daily to go to work while I was living in Mexico, I never had an issue doing so
4: I lived in the USA for short periods of time during this time
5: On February 2021 I decided to live full time in the USA, live in the USA for 5 years (while visiting family/friends in Mexico only during the weekends)
6: I Finally have the 5 years under my belt and I spent way more than half of every year during these 5 years, gathered all documents to prove that I did too.
Now, I am getting advice and paying for a lawyer to help me with the process, and she suggested that we should go ahead and do it, however my concern is that they are going to ask: “Have you been living in the USA since you got your green card? And if that happens, I am basically screwed and they could even remove my card and deny my citizenship application.
So basically, I have 2 options:
1: Continue just using my green card to work and cross the border every weekend
2: Apply for citizenship and risk it all to get the citizenship
Again, I know that nobody can tell me what will happen, I am looking for opinions/advice based on experience.
Btw, my record is completely clean, no children, not married, I pay my taxes every year
Thank you for reading.
