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Question about I-131 Advance Parole (living outisde the USA w/ a Green Card)

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Bengalita   13

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Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Nicaragua
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t's because that person is expected to RESIDE in the USA. And, we all know that a Green Card holder can take vacations outside the USA for no longer than 6 months out of 1 year. And, we all know that if a Green Card holder expects to be out of the USA for longer than 6 months, he/she needs to apply for Advance Parole beforehand so that he/she has no problems when trying to re-enter.

Ok, are we on the same page?

Cool. Continuing: So, I have this scenario. A friend of mine has a Green Card but is voluntarily doing mission in Nicaragua w/ his US Citizen wife, and yes, he applied for the I-131. But he just comes back to "report" to the USA like once a year for 2 weeks, and then go back to Nicarauga. HOW LONG WILL HE BE ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH THIS? IS the I-131 just a way to prolong your non-residence outside the USA? When is enough ENOUGH?

I thought the I-131 Advance Parole was to be used carefully, not something you keep applying for so you can have the advantage of having a Green Card while also living outside the USA.

So, what's the future of my friend if he keeps on "paying" for an extension to practically LIVE abroad?

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Bobby+Umit Mentor

Bobby+Umit   161

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Filed: Lift. Cond. (apr) Country: Turkey
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He can do that - however, every time he comes back to "check in" - he is running a risk of losing his LPR status. (AP does not guarantee entry, nor does it prevent them from pulling your LPR)

My Advice is usually based on "Worst Case Scenario" and what is written in the rules/laws/instructions. That is the way I roll... -Protect your Status - file before your I-94 expires.

WARNING: Phrases in this post may sound meaner than they were intended to be. Read the Adjudicator's Field Manual from USCIS

Brother Hesekiel Mentor

Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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This is not an Advance Parole case at all.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

 
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