# CHART

### ****RELIEF1 AGGRAVATED FELONY DEPORTABLE/ INADMISSIBLE CRIME STOP TIME, GMC and OTHER TIME REQUIREMENTS NATURALIZATION****

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">(Affirmative or with Request to Terminate Removal Proceedings) INA § 310, et seq., 8 USC § 1421, et seq. </span>

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">AF is a permanent bar to GMC, and thus to naturalization, unless conviction is before 11/29/903 Not a bar per se, but removable applicants may be referred to removal proceedings Requires certain period (e.g., preceding three or five years) of good moral character. </span>

<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">GMC bars include several crimesgrounds of inadmissibility plus some bars unique to GMC.4 LPR CANCELLATION For Long-Time Lawful Permanent Residents5 INA § 240A(a), 8 USC § 1129b(a) </span>

****AUTOMATIC BAR****<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span>  
<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">(For AF convictions from before April 24, 1996, or arguably April 1, 1997, </span>**see** § 212(c) Relief,)

****NOT A BAR 7 YEARS RESIDENCE****<span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> since admission in any status; periods of unlawful status since admission count toward this. 6 </span>

The 7-year clock stops at whichever comes first: being served with a qualifying NTA7 or committing an offense referred to in 212(a)(2).8 Ninth Circuit held that some convictions before 4/1/97 do not stop clock.9