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    Default Military Spouse Naturalization

    Hello,

    I'm writing in the hope of receiving some advice on the following because I just want to make sure I have the sufficient documentation for my interview.

    I have applied for citizenship and received the interview appointment letter. Along with the letter, I got a little note asking me to bring copies of my husband's military orders when we were living overseas (we have moved back to the US). However, for the specific time period they are asking about (when I was already an LPR living overseas), we cannot provide orders because my husband spent over 6 years overseas in the military and he was not issued new orders specifically for the time period in question.

    What should I bring as a proof? His record brief lists the places we lived at overseas and the time period they are interested in is covered in that. We can also provide his original (old) order to his overseas duty station and many supporting documentation showing that the documents were issued at that overseas duty station (my power of attorney, paper on his overseas assignment data etc).

    Is all that sufficient in the lack of orders? (since we only moved once within that area, we only have documentation about that but these are not really "orders", just little memos)

    I am a little concerned because when I applied, I already sent his deployment orders from that time period and my command sponsorship yet more documentation has been requested.

    I called the USCIS line and they couldn't answer this specific question.

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    Default Re: Military Spouse Naturalization

    Presumably what they are after is a paper trail from the military that shows that your spouse was assigned to the base overseas throughout the entire period at issue. The military maintains a paper trail for everything, so if he was ordered to the base there's a paper trail for that. If he served there for six years, there's a paper trail for that. When he was transferred away from the base, there's a paper trail for that. It should not be difficult for you to establish that your husband was on active duty during the entire relevant period, to show the orders transferring him to and from the base where you and he lived for the six year period, and that his service was continuous during that period; I expect that would be sufficient to satisfy the questions.

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    Default Re: Military Spouse Naturalization

    If he is still in the military, you should be working with the "Military Helpline" which is referenced on the USCIS website.

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