Hello. When you ask when your year starts, what exactly do you mean? In general, each of your trips outside the US should be less than 6 months at a time. And, you should be spending a majority of your time in the US. It doesn't really matter when you start and end a year, for purposes of calculation. The bottom line is, you need to spending more than 50 percent of your time in the US. Please let me know if you have further questions. Thank you.
Answered on Aug 19th, 2013 at 2:47 PM