10 year green card

[ikyang 1]

if you are a green card holder, how long can you stay outside US so not to revoke your residency?

[YuAndDan 153]

Answer is on USCIS site:

Maintaining Permanent Residence You may lose your permanent residence status if you commit an act that makes you removable from the United States under the law in section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. If you commit such an act, you may be brought before the immigration courts to determine your right to remain a Permanent Resident.

You may be found to have abandoned your permanent resident status if you:

• Move to another country intending to live there permanently.

• Remain outside of the US for more than one year without obtaining a reentry permit or returning resident visa. However in determining whether your status has been abandoned any length of absence from the US may be considered, even if it is less than one year.

• Remain outside of the US for more than two years after issuance of a reentry permit without obtaining a returning resident visa. However in determining whether your status has been abandoned any length of absence from the US may be considered, even if it is less than one year.

• Fail to file income tax returns while living outside of the US for any period.

• Declare yourself a “nonimmigrant†on your tax returns.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00045f3d6a1RCRD

Green-card is for being a permanent resident of the USA not a temporary resident of the USA.

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=36581

What is your status, your profile says N/A, and what country? There is not country called N/A

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...rCP&CODE=01

Edited March 7, 2008 by YuAndDan

[Nanusia & Lukaszek 0]

What is your status, your profile says N/A, and what country? There is not country called N/A

What country has nothing to do with the question. But if you want to be so specific, proper grammar would be nice

[ikyang 1]

the reason why i am asking is i have an elderly relative to take care in the philippines.

btw, i already updated my timeline.

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Green-card is for being a permanent resident of the USA not a temporary resident of the USA.

http://www.visajourney.com/timeline/profile.php?id=36581

What is your status, your profile says N/A, and what country? There is not country called N/A

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...rCP&CODE=01

YuAndDan.... filling in a timeline is not a pre-requisit of being a member of VJ..... Please stop demanding people to "FILL IN YOUR TIMELINE" ..... and as for your coment about there being no Country called N/A maybe they dont want you to know...

FOR GOD SAKE DO US ALL A FAVOUR AND STOP WITH THE TIMELINE POLICE.... if people want to fill in there timeline then fine they will... if not then they wont.....

Kez

[Nanusia & Lukaszek 0]

That's exactly what I was getting at. Its on every one of his posts. Regardless of what anyone asks, his most important part is what country they are from. Someone was asking if they should put pictures in plastic bags along with G325, but to him knowing the country is vital I guess to answering a question like that.

I think its just the wanting to be a mod/organizer and not having the priviledge that is getting to him

[eau_xplain 2]

aying,

Don't forget that staying out of the US for more than 6 months resets your "continuous residence" timeline. So, if you are planning on applying for naturalization, you might not want to stay away for more than 6 months at a time.

[ikyang 1]

yes i will not stay outside the US more than six months..thank your the clarifications guys.