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Traveling with green card, any advantages?

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chrislyse   0

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Is it any easier (or harder for that matter) to get a visa to travel anywhere once my fiance gets a green card? She is from Indonesia and it is not easy for people there to get travel visa's to anywhere outside of south east asia...will she be able to get a visa for foreign travel prior to getting a US citizenship/passport?

Thanks.

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Is it any easier (or harder for that matter) to get a visa to travel anywhere once my fiance gets a green card? She is from Indonesia and it is not easy for people there to get travel visa's to anywhere outside of south east asia...will she be able to get a visa for foreign travel prior to getting a US citizenship/passport?

Thanks.

No, is not any easier. When she gets her greencard, she is still an indonesian citizen, so if she wants to travel to canada for example, they will look at her Indonesian passport, not her greencard. Life will be a piece of cake once she has the american passport. Until then, all she has is her Indonesian passport.

AOS

2009-01-12===> Sent AOS packet via UPS
2009-01-13===> AOS packet received
2009-01-28===> NOA's received in the mail
2009-02-01===> Biometric appt received in the mail
2009-02-06===> Completed biometric appt thru walk-in
2009-02-06===> Applied for expedited AP thru the phone
2009-02-14===> Received AP in the mail
2009-02-11===> Case transferred to CSC
2009-02-23===> EAD received
2009-05-02===> Green card received in the mail, no interview done.

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Ikarus - not quite correct - Canada/Mexico/and some other countries allow you to fly in with your greencard (regardless of your passport country). My wife (Colombia) was able to travel easily to Mexico with me - otherwise (if she was not a green card holder) she would be required to get a visa for Mexico (and also Canada) prior to flying. European countries are a different matter though and it may not make any difference (however, UK will give my wife a temp visitor's visa if she was flying there). Good Luck and check with the embassy of the country you are flying to (and the airlines).

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2005

K1

March 2 Filed I-129 F

July 21 Interview in Bogota ** Approved ** Very Easy!

AOS

Oct 19 Mailed AOS Packet to Chicago

2006

Feb 17 AOS interview in Denver. Biometrics also done today! (Interviewing officer ordered them.)

Apr 25 Green card received

2008

Removal of conditions

March 17 Refiled using new I-751 form

April 16 Biometrics done

July 10 Green card production ordered

2009

Citizenship

Jan 20 filed N400

Feb 04 NOA date

Feb 24 Biometrics

May 5 Interview - Centennial (Denver, Colorado) Passed

June 10 Oath Ceremony - Teikyo Loretto Heights, Denver, Colorado

July 7 Received Passport in 3 weeks

Shredded all immigration papers Have scanned images

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pushbrk   12,147

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Thanks for the heads up/info. Life is one wait after another.

This website is an excellent resource for answering questions about travel requirements. You put in both citizenship and resident information.

http://www.delta.com/planning_reservations...rt_information/

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