Must you stay in the US consecutively for 180 days in order to gain citizenship?

Question

My aunt has stayed here for 5 years but she goes back and forth from her native country. She also has stayed her for at least 30 months all together.

Answer 1

Here are the requirements

http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/M-476...

Answer 2

What is your aunt's status in the US?  Did she enter on an immigration-class of visa, and does she have a permanent green card?  Has she held a green card for 5 years or more?  Unless she immigrated here legally and has progressed through the proper stages of the immigration process, she cannot apply for naturalization, take her tests, and be assigned to a naturalization ceremony to take her oath.

If she is going back and forth and has never been here for 180 consecutive days, I suspect she is coming in on a visa waiver or multiple-entry visitor's visa, and she is in no way on track to eventually get a green card and after 5 years with the green card, become eligible to apply for naturalization.  It appears from your info here that she is not an immigrant at all.

Answer 3

Provided non of her trips outside the US were greater than six months, she is OK.  There is no 180 consecutive day test.