Select this basis when you are applying under the general naturalization rules, typically after the required period as a lawful permanent resident.

Select this basis when you are applying under the naturalization rules for a qualifying lawful permanent resident spouse of a U.S. citizen.

Select this basis when you qualify for naturalization as the spouse, former spouse or child of a U.S. citizen under the applicable Violence Against Women Act provisions.

Select this basis when applying under INA section 319(b) as the qualifying spouse of a U.S. citizen working abroad for a qualifying employer.

Select this option when eligibility is based on qualifying U.S. military service during a designated period of hostilities.

Select this option when your naturalization eligibility is based on at least one year of qualifying honorable U.S. military service.

Use this only when your eligibility basis is not one of the specifically listed categories.

Enter your Family Name, Given Name and Middle Name. Do not enter a nickname as your current legal name.

Provide other names used, including maiden names, former married names, aliases and other names required by the instructions.

If the name on your Green Card differs from your current legal name, provide the Green Card name exactly as printed.

Enter your actual date of birth exactly as supported by your immigration and civil records.

Enter the effective date of permanent residence shown on your Green Card or immigration records.

Enter your country of birth.

Enter your current country or countries of citizenship or nationality as required by the form.

Enter your nine-digit A-Number.

Enter your USCIS Online Account Number if one has been assigned.

Answer according to your actual current immigration status and filing basis.

If you obtained conditional permanent residence, review whether the conditions have been properly removed or whether the applicable petition remains pending.

The form and instructions provide special procedures for applicants unable to complete parts of the naturalization process because of qualifying disabilities or impairments.

Certain applicants who meet specified age and long-term permanent-residence combinations may qualify for an exception from the English-language requirement and may take the civics test in their language.

A qualifying physical or developmental disability or mental impairment may support an exception from certain English and civics requirements through Form N-648.

Select every race category that applies.

Enter height in feet and inches and weight in pounds.

Select the applicable eye-color and hair-color options.

Provide your actual current physical residence. USCIS uses the address to determine the appropriate office for biometrics and interview processing.

List your physical addresses for the entire period required by your naturalization eligibility basis, beginning with your current residence.

If your mailing address differs from your physical residence, provide the address where you reliably receive USCIS correspondence.

Select your actual current legal marital status.

Answer whether your spouse is currently a member of the U.S. armed forces.

Count all marriages required by USCIS, including current and prior marriages, whether civil, religious, customary, annulled or otherwise included under the instructions.

Provide your spouse's current legal name.

Enter your spouse's actual date of birth.

Provide the legal date of your current marriage.

Provide whether your spouse is a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident or holds another status as requested.

Provide the requested citizenship information, including whether citizenship was acquired by birth, naturalization or another applicable basis.

Provide your spouse's A-Number if one has been assigned.

State how many times your current spouse has been married and prepare evidence showing termination of applicable prior marriages.

If applying as the spouse of a U.S. citizen working abroad for a qualifying employer, provide the employer information requested by the form.

Enter the total number of children under 18 that must be listed under the current form instructions.

For each child, provide the requested name and date of birth.

Answer whether you are providing support for each child. This can also relate to later good-moral-character questions.

List your employment, self-employment, unemployment, retirement and full-time or part-time education for the applicable reporting period.

Provide city or town, state or province, ZIP or postal code and country.

Provide beginning and ending dates and your occupation or field of study. Start with the most recent activity.

List trips outside the United States during the period required by your eligibility category, starting with the most recent.

Provide the date you left and the date you returned to the United States.

List the country or countries visited during each trip.

Answer based on any written, spoken or other claim to U.S. citizenship.

Answer the Federal, state and local voting question accurately. The form includes a specific note regarding lawful local elections where noncitizens were eligible to vote.

Answer whether you currently owe overdue Federal, state or local taxes in the United States.

Since becoming a lawful permanent resident, answer whether you identified yourself as a nonresident alien on a tax return or failed to file because you considered yourself a nonresident.

Answer whether you have ever been a member of, involved in, or associated with a Communist or totalitarian party anywhere in the world.

Answer the form's questions about involvement with groups advocating violent or unconstitutional overthrow, sabotage, unlawful killing, property destruction or related conduct.

Disclose applicable membership, services, labor, financial assistance or other support to groups involved in weapons, explosives, kidnapping, assassination, hijacking, sabotage or related conduct.

Answer whether you ever ordered, incited, committed, assisted or otherwise participated in torture, genocide, killing, attempted killing or intentional severe injury.

Answer the form's question regarding participation in sexual activity involving lack of consent, force or threats.

Answer whether you prevented religious practice or caused harm because of race, religion, national origin, social group or political opinion.

Disclose service, membership, assistance or participation in any military or police unit.

Disclose participation in armed groups, including paramilitary, self-defense, vigilante, rebel or guerrilla groups.

Answer whether you ever worked, volunteered, served in, directed or participated in activities involving prisons, jails, detention facilities, prison camps or labor camps.

Answer the separate questions concerning use or threatened use of weapons, selling or transporting weapons, and weapons, paramilitary or military-type training.

Answer whether you recruited, enlisted, conscripted or used a person under 15 in an armed group or hostilities.

Answer whether you ever committed, agreed to commit, asked someone else to commit, helped commit or tried to commit a crime or offense for which you were not arrested.

Report applicable arrests, citations, detentions, confinements and criminal charges anywhere in the world.

For each required offense, provide the crime or offense, date, conviction or guilty-plea date if applicable, location, result or disposition, and sentence if applicable.

Answer whether you completed any suspended sentence, probation or parole.

Answer whether you ever engaged in prostitution, attempted to procure or import people for prostitution, or received proceeds from prostitution.

Answer the form's question regarding manufacturing, cultivating, producing, distributing, selling, smuggling or trafficking controlled substances or drug paraphernalia.

Answer whether you were ever married to more than one person at the same time.

Answer whether you ever married someone in order to obtain an immigration benefit.

Answer whether you ever helped anyone enter or attempt to enter the United States illegally.

Answer whether you ever gambled illegally or received income from illegal gambling.

Answer whether you ever failed to support dependents or pay court-ordered alimony.

Answer whether you ever made a misrepresentation to obtain a public benefit in the United States.

Answer whether you ever provided false, fraudulent or misleading information or documentation to U.S. Government officials.

Answer whether you ever lied to gain entry, admission or another immigration benefit.

Answer Yes if you have ever been placed in any of these proceedings.

Answer based on your complete immigration history, including prior orders and departures executed under an order.

The form asks this question of applicants born male, with an exception when the person was in lawful nonimmigrant status for the entire relevant period.

Answer whether you ever left the United States to avoid being drafted into the U.S. armed forces.

Answer whether you ever applied for any kind of exemption from U.S. military service.

Answer based on your complete U.S. military history.

If currently serving, answer the questions about deployment, stationing outside the United States and related military processing.

Answer the specific current-form question if you are a former service member now living outside the United States.

Answer whether you have ever been court-martialed or received a discharge characterized as other than honorable, bad conduct or dishonorable.

Answer whether you were ever discharged from U.S. military training or service because you were an alien.

Answer whether you ever deserted from the U.S. armed forces.

Answer whether you now have, or ever had, a hereditary title or order of nobility in a foreign country. If Yes, answer whether you are willing to give it up at naturalization.

Answer this question truthfully based on your actual beliefs and eligibility.

Review the Oath language before answering.

Answer Yes only if the applicable physical or developmental disability or mental impairment prevents you from understanding or communicating the meaning of the Oath under the relevant waiver provisions.

Answer whether you are willing to take the full Oath of Allegiance.

Answer whether you are willing to bear arms on behalf of the United States if required by law.

Answer whether you are willing to perform noncombatant service in the U.S. armed forces if required by law.

Answer whether you are willing to perform work of national importance under civilian direction if required by law.

Complete the reduced-fee information only if you are requesting the reduced naturalization filing fee under the current income rules.

Enter the household income calculated under the current USCIS instructions.

Enter the applicable household size.

Enter the number of household members earning income, including yourself where applicable.

Provide your current daytime telephone number.

Provide your mobile telephone number if applicable.

Provide your current email address if applicable.

By signing, you certify under penalty of perjury that the information and evidence submitted are complete, true and correct.

Provide the interpreter's Family Name and Given Name.

Provide the interpreter's business or organization name where applicable.

Provide the interpreter's address, telephone numbers and email address as requested.

The interpreter certifies fluency and accurate interpretation, then signs and dates the section.

Provide the preparer's full legal name.

Provide the preparer's business or organization name where applicable.

Provide the preparer's address, telephone numbers and email information as requested.

If applicable, complete the representation information and submit Form G-28 where required.

The preparer signs and dates this section when someone other than the applicant prepared the form.

Use Part 14 whenever the form asks for additional explanation or there is not enough space for an answer. Identify the exact question being continued.

If additional pages are necessary, follow the USCIS instructions, identify the relevant question clearly and include the applicant identification requested.

Prepare the required copy or evidence of your Permanent Resident Card and A-Number.

Prepare evidence of the spouse's U.S. citizenship, marriage, termination of prior marriages, and the marital relationship required by the applicable naturalization provision.

If you had lengthy trips abroad, prepare evidence addressing continuous residence, physical presence and ties to the United States where required.

If tax issues apply, prepare relevant tax transcripts, payment agreements and proof of compliance.

For arrests, citations, charges, convictions or alternative dispositions, provide the certified records required by USCIS.

If applicable, prepare evidence showing compliance with child-support or alimony obligations.

Where applicable, prepare registration information, status records or the explanation and evidence required if you did not register.

For military-based cases or applicants with military history, prepare discharge, service, deployment and other required military records.

Prepare the household-income documentation required by the current USCIS reduced-fee instructions.

Submit the properly completed medical certification where the applicable disability exception is requested.

Foreign-language documents submitted to USCIS must include a complete English translation with the required translator certification.