---
kind: "section"
citation: "8 C.F.R. § 325.3"
title: "8"
number: "325.3"
heading: "Residence."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/8/325.3"
---

# §325.3. Residence.

- (a) For purposes of applying the residence and physical presence requirements in parts [316](/cfr/8/part316.md) and [319](/cfr/8/part319.md) of this chapter, except as they relate to the required three months' residence in a State or Service district, residence and physical presence in an outlying possession of the United States will count as residence and physical presence in the United States.
- (b) An applicant who intends to resume residence in an outlying possession after naturalization will be regarded as having established that he or she intends to reside permanently in the United States.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 8 U.S.C. 1103, 1436, 1443.

### Source

Source: 56 FR 50491, Oct. 7, 1991, unless otherwise noted.