Enter the resident since date on your green card to see the earliest day USCIS accepts your citizenship application. Add your trips abroad to check physical presence and continuous residence. Everything runs in your browser.
The “Resident Since” date on the front of your green card.
You generally need 3 months in the state or USCIS district you file from.
Add each trip since you became a resident, including planned trips. Nothing leaves your browser.
Used for the physical presence check. If you leave it blank we use your earliest filing date, or today if that has passed.
You don't have to wait for the exact anniversary. USCIS accepts an N-400 up to 90 days before you complete the 5 years (or 3 years) of permanent residence. If your card says you've been a resident since June 15, 2021, your 5-year anniversary is June 15, 2026, and the earliest you can file is March 17, 2026.
Filing early only moves the date you can send the application. You still have to meet every other requirement, and an application filed even a little too early can be rejected, so don't cut it to the day if you aren't sure of the date on your card.
Physical presence is a count of days: you need to have been in the US for at least half of the period, which is 913 days on the 5-year path and 548 days on the 3-year path. Many short trips can add up and put you under.
Continuous residence is about long trips. A single trip of more than 6 months raises a presumption that you broke your residence, which you can rebut with evidence of your ties to the US. A trip of a year or more generally breaks it. After a break, people on the 5-year path generally have to wait until 4 years and 1 day after they came back to apply (2 years and 1 day on the 3-year path). Form N-470 can preserve residence for certain work abroad, such as for the US government, but it doesn't count as physical presence.
You generally need to have lived in the state, or the USCIS district, where you file for at least 3 months before you file. If you moved recently, add your move date to the calculator and it will tell you when that's satisfied.
USCIS sends a receipt notice with a receipt number, then a biometrics appointment if one is needed, then an interview. You can follow every step with the citizenship tracker or check your case status any time, and the status meanings guide explains what each update means.
Follow your N-400 from receipt to oath.
Look up any receipt number.
What the N-400 costs, paper or online.
When your 90-day window to remove conditions opens, and your deadline.
When USCIS needs your response to a Request for Evidence or Notice of Intent to Deny.
DOL's current PERM and prevailing wage times, and when your PERM should be decided.
USCIS accepts an N-400 up to 90 days before you reach the required time as a permanent resident: 90 days before the 5-year anniversary of the “Resident Since” date on your green card, or 90 days before the 3-year anniversary if you qualify through marriage to a US citizen. An application filed earlier than that can be rejected.
At least half of the required period: 913 days for the 5-year path and 548 days for the 3-year path. That's separate from continuous residence, so you need to meet both.
USCIS generally counts a partial day as a day in the US, so the day you leave and the day you come back usually count as days present. This calculator only counts the full days in between as days outside. Confirm how your own trips are counted with USCIS or an immigration attorney.
A trip of more than 6 months but less than a year creates a presumption that you broke continuous residence. You can rebut it with evidence that you kept your ties to the US, such as keeping your job, home, tax filings and immediate family here. A trip of a year or more generally breaks continuous residence, unless an approved Form N-470 preserved it for certain work abroad.
You generally need to have lived in the state or USCIS district where you file for at least 3 months before you file. If you moved recently, wait until you've been there 3 months, even if your early filing date has passed.
Yes. The same 90-day early filing rule applies, so you can file 90 days before the 3-year anniversary of your resident since date, as long as you've been married to and living with the same US citizen spouse for those 3 years and your spouse has been a citizen the whole time.
These calculators give estimates, not legal advice. Confirm dates, fees and eligibility with USCIS or an immigration attorney before you file.