I applied for I751 last year. In December I got a letter which extends my green card for 1 year - travel and work. So this means it is good till January 2008. However I haven't get anything else yet. I am worried that they might call us for an interview/deny it since my husband and I have a small problem in our paperwork. I plan to go to my home country for a month in September. What will happen if while I am gone they deny our case? Can I still get into the country with the extension letter? Has anyone heard of a story like this? My husband believes that I will not have any problem even if they deny it since I have the extension letter but to me it seems a serious problem and I am very afraid to go. Thank you! Heartbeat

If they call you for an interview, you gotta get it postponed until after you return. If they're looking to deny your case, I think they fist issue a letter of their intent to deny the application. Not sure but I think that's how that happens. In which case yo'd still have time t make it back to make your case.

All that of course depends on what exactly you think is a "small problem" in your paperwork...

It seems improbable that they would deny your application while you are away, but if they do, your extension letter alone probably won't help you to get smoothly into the country. When I entered the US with my NOA, the immigration officer sent me to the passport office, to let another officer check my case in their computer system. What would happen if the second officer found there the decision to deny? I don't know, you still might have a time to appeal.

Appealing from outside USA would be impossible. If the I-751 is denied, while you are abroad, you have no status and you will not be able to return.

Hi! you can read my story - may be it wil help - look at the very last in the bottom today's Aug 2007 posts

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...30&start=30

i crossed border with NOA1 and they didnt check my case in computer, may be because my husband was with me

I was travelling with my wife and children (and NOA, GC, and passport), and they checked my case in the computer system anyhow.

I and my family just came back New York on 08/05/2007 from China with my expired GC and a temporary I-551 stamp on the my passport. I didn't even receive my NOA yet before I left New York for China last month. Re-entry at JFK airport was quite easy even without any question asked. The immigration officer only took my expired GC, which had expired more than two years ago, on 06/13/200, and checkd his compuetr for few minutes

Not even as a tourist/VWP?

Well, I suppose one could try, but having just lost status, with a denied I-751 during a visit overseas, one would have to overcome the presumption that the entry was with immigrant intent.

I wouldn't necessarily equate your experience with all, and intimate that it could be an uneventful re-entry.

By the way, kenwang, care to explain the green card "expired" notation in your timeline? And while you're at it, perhaps the two year delay in filing to remove conditions? Were you involved in a protracted divorce or something? How did you manage to evade removal during those 24 months? "Enquiring minds want to know"