Continuous Residency
 
The idea of continuous residency refers to the individual's ability to maintain a permanent resident status in the United States over the duration of the statute's requirements.
The residency in consideration is "the same as it is shown on the person's domicile, or primary real permanent home, regardless of the person's purpose, and the length of an individual's residency in a specific area counted from the instant the person first maintains residency in that site."
As a result, irrespective of whether the candidate intends to identify it as their habitation, the individual's domicile is typically their actual physical location.

Requirements for Continuous Residency in the US
There are specific requirements if the applicant is looking for continuous residency in the US. Let’s look at them:
·        Candidates must have lived in the United States for at least five years after obtaining a green card status or permanent legal residency.
·        The applicant must have lived in the region where the petition is submitted for at least three months.
·        From the time of submission to admittance to naturalization, you must live in the United States consistently.
·        For at least half of the five years, you must've been personally present in the United States.
·        From the date of filing to admittance to the date of getting residency, you must live in the United States regularly.
·        If the candidate is involved in a marital union with a USC, the requirement for residency is 3 years. Conditions follow as:
(a) the USC spouse has been residing in the United States for the past three years.
(b) the couple has been together in a marital relationship for the past three years.
 
Marriages between people of the same gender are permitted. Separation of the marital relationship can occur by dissolution, judicial divorce, or even unofficial segregation. Involuntary separations, on the other hand, are not deemed to be the end of the marriage.

Establishment of Residency
Prior to filing for citizenship, the legal permanent residency is required to establish either "physical presence" and "continuous residency" and in the United States. Most people find these notions of being perplexing.
Continued residency in the United States throughout time, depending on a person's real town of habitation or domicile, is known as continuous attendance. US migration regulations require permanent legal residency to establish such continued residency to prevent a judgment of abandoning residency.

Eligibility Requirements for Residency
A legal resident must have lived in the same place for about five years to be eligible for naturalization. In the case of the residency acquired via marriage to a US citizen, the applicant should be living there for three years. The amount of time a legal permanent residence is personally present in the United States is known as a physical presence.
When excluded, a legal permanent residency must prove actual presence in the United States for 50% of the required term of continuous residence to be eligible for naturalization. Please get in touch with an immigration attorney to evaluate your case to see if you fulfill the legislative requirements for nationality.

Have You Interrupted Your Residence Any Time?
The most typical question is whether the overseas national's residency has been continuous since they acquired permanent resident status and if this residency has been disrupted at any point during that period.
What's worth noting is that the physical presence criterion is usually calculated when a naturalization application is submitted, based on how many weeks the foreign citizen was into or out of the country.
The criterion that may demonstrate the continuation of residency is as follows:
·        Not ending work in the United States is one 
·        Complete access to the United States of America.
·        Availability of direct relatives in the United States
·        Not being able to find work in another country.
·        Even if the application received re-entry permission, a hiatus of one year or more "must" impair the individual's continuation of residency.

Contact the Immigration Attorney Now!
Contact one of the qualified immigration lawyers to analyze your situation when you feel you could have a problem preserving the continuation of residency.
Even if the interruption of residency occurred several years before citizenship application was filed, it could become a problem in the naturalization application procedure.
Your safest option is to hire an immigration attorney who can assist you assess if you fulfill the continuous residency requirement for citizenship.