United States Citizenship by Naturalization has no correlation to length of time one is married to their U.S. Citizen spouse. One's eligibility to Naturalize, instead, depends primarily on time legally resident in the United States as an Legal Permanent Resident (LPR).
So, in the most common scenario, where one enters the country having newly (within 2 years of having applied for Permanent Residency) married a US Citizen one would receive a CR2 Green Card.
The CR2 is a "Conditional" Green Card that expires two (2) years after it was first issued. 90-Days prior to the CR2's expiry, one must apply to Remove Conditions by submitting the appropriate application to USCIS and including the required documentary evidence supporting not only the continued existence of the marriage (though in certain circumstances where the marriage no longer exists conditions may still be removed) but the genuineness of the marriage ad initio. Once the application to Remove Conditions is received a temporary 1-year extension on the CR2 is issued to permit USCIS to process the application.
Once USCIS approved the request to Remove Conditions, the full ten (10) year Green Card is issued.
Having been approved as an LPR on the basis of marriage to a US Citizen, your time to naturalization is reduced from the standard five (5) year residency to just three (3) years from issuance of the initial CR2 Green Card. After the 3-year anniversary of the CR2's issuance, you can apply to Naturalize.
The 3-year guideline for naturalization does not actually mean that you need to be married for that period of time. It is possible to have the marriage last less than that (indeed, in some circumstances, less than even the validity period of the CR2) and still qualify to Naturalize.
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