Traveling abroad with expired GC and extension letter

[khwaidee1 196]

We're October 14 filers. We'll be going back to see the wife's family next month. We were kind of hoping we'd get the 10 yr before then but, that doesn't look that good right now.

So, I'm curious as to anybody else who has traveled abroad on an expired GC with the extension letter and their experiences. I am assuming we need to bring the original letter. As with our 551 travels, we'll bring a copy of the marriage license too. We had two POE experiences on a 551 stamp that had us in secondary for hours and on the second one they wanted to detain the wife and deny entry because they never turned the page to see the 2nd 551 stamp (their incompetence was most upsetting as you can imagine). Thanks in advance.

Edited March 5, 2015 by khwaidee1

[jjbandero 39]

I've not had issues traveling with the expired card and extension letter. My POE was LAX and they did not even bother looking at my 551 stamp, I got the stamp because I received two extension letters (the letters were identical except the second one was time stamped minutes later, of course there were 2 reference numbers) and had both with me.

[toribae1031 3]

We're October 14 filers. We'll be going back to see the wife's family next month. We were kind of hoping we'd get the 10 yr before then but, that doesn't look that good right now.

So, I'm curious as to anybody else who has traveled abroad on an expired GC with the extension letter and their experiences. I am assuming we need to bring the original letter. As with our 551 travels, we'll bring a copy of the marriage license too. We had two POE experiences on a 551 stamp that had us in secondary for hours and on the second one they wanted to detain the wife and deny entry because they never turned the page to see the 2nd 551 stamp (their incompetence was most upsetting as you can imagine). Thanks in advance.

If you can. Get i-551 stamp for i-751 idk if you already hav or not.

And bring extension letter too.....

just in case.. copy of it too....

[Pitaya 2,576]

Here is a recent thread with a report of our latest international travel while awaiting ROC adjudication: http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/530274-travelling-to-canada/

There are several other recent ROC forum threads that also speak about this very topic.

[sharito83 1]

Does that mean we need the i-551 stamp even though you already have the extension letter? There is no official information anywhere that states this.

On the letter it just states that "your residency is extended for one year" i don't see anywhere saying we must also get the i-551 stamp

[Nevin 12]

Does that mean we need the i-551 stamp even though you already have the extension letter? There is no official information anywhere that states this.

On the letter it just states that "your residency is extended for one year" i don't see anywhere saying we must also get the i-551 stamp

No you don't need a i551 stamp when your i751 is valid. i551 is a must in circumstances where your i751 is about to expire or got expired.

I've had no issues at both POE's(mexico and san diego) while travelling to mexico with i751, expired GC and my valid country passport.

I wanted to get my passport stamped with an i551 but couldn't get an infopass appointment.

Edited March 6, 2015 by Nevin