RE ENTRY PERMIT

[AlexFlorida2010 0]

Hi, I have a applied for a CR1 immigration visa.

Noted that with a Re-entry permit I can travel outside the Usa for up to 2 years, and then come back without loosing the immigration visa,

can I also work outside the Usa during that period?

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

No.

If you applied for a CR-1 visa, you'll be traveling to the US once it is approved. There you will receive your Green Card and from then on you are not only allowed to live and to work in the US, but you are required to live and to work there.

Your first Green Card is a conditional one. It will be valid for 2 years and the condition is that you stay married and live happily together with your spouse at the same address in the USA. Before that card expires you both will have to apply for Removal of Conditions of your residency. At that point you need to provide joint tax returns for those two years, the rent or lease for your apartment or house, bank account statements, car title, insurances, photos showing you two at family events and holidays, pretty much anything that shows that you shared a life together . . . in the USA.

You cannot enter the US and leave again, and you cannot work outside the US. Of course, as a resident you can travel freely. You can visit family and friends, spend your vacation in your old country of residence, and even take care of an ill family member if the need arises. But you cannot leave the US for extended periods of time. If you do, Customs and Border control will question whether or not you have abandoned your (US) residency when you return, and if they feel you did, they will take your Green Card away from you and either send you back to your home country or put you in detention until you see an immigration judge.

If you still have unfinished business in your home country, you should try to get this out of the way before traveling to the US and starting your residency. Like the residency in a hospital, you'll have to be there if you want to be signed off two years later, not in another country.

Edited March 22, 2011 by Just Bob

[AlexFlorida2010 0]

No.

If you applied for a CR-1 visa, you'll be traveling to the US once it is approved. There you will receive your Green Card and from then on you are not only allowed to live and to work in the US, but you are required to live and to work there.

Your first Green Card is a conditional one. It will be valid for 2 years and the condition is that you stay married and live happily together with your spouse at the same address in the USA. Before that card expires you both will have to apply for Removal of Conditions of your residency. At that point you need to provide joint tax returns for those two years, the rent or lease for your apartment or house, bank account statements, car title, insurances, photos showing you two at family events and holidays, pretty much anything that shows that you shared a life together . . . in the USA.

You cannot enter the US and leave again, and you cannot work outside the US. Of course, as a resident you can travel freely. You can visit family and friends, spend your vacation in your old country of residence, and even take care of an ill family member if the need arises. But you cannot leave the US for extended periods of time. If you do, Customs and Border control will question whether or not you have abandoned your (US) residency when you return, and if they feel you did, they will take your Green Card away from you and either send you back to your home country or put you in detention until you see an immigration judge.

If you still have unfinished business in your home country, you should try to get this out of the way before traveling to the US and starting your residency. Like the residency in a hospital, you'll have to be there if you want to be signed off two years later, not in another country.

Hi Bob,

I have been married for 6 years and we have 2 kids. Doesn't it qualify me for a 10 years green card?

[Wayne and Claudia 40]

Hi Bob,

I have been married for 6 years and we have 2 kids. Doesn't it qualify me for a 10 years green card?

If you have been married for 6 years you should not be applying for a CR-1 visa, but an IR-1.