Settled in USA but want to move to husbands country

[Kayla34 0]

I am American and brought my English husband over to the USA on a fiance visa. We are unhappy here and would like to move to his home country the United Kingdom. Since he came over on a fiance visa and now has his Green Card how would we go about doing that? In December we need to file to release the conditions. Any info would be great.

[J&N* 68]

I think he can't live in another country for more than 6 months at a time or he might lose his residence, but once he gets his citizenship you guys can move and come back like you want.

It really depends on where you wanna live for the rest of your life I suppose.

[Damian&Kelly 16]

My husband and I were just looking into this. I don't know much about UK visas but I do know if you wait until your 2 year wedding anniversary it will make things a little easier, just like the US. My husband and I decided if we move we'll wait until my husband becomes a US citizen. We can't see spending all the money we did, on the K-1 and green cards (AOS&ROC), to just pick up and leave. As far as I know, with the green card, you can't leave for more than 6 months without a re-entry permit, and if you do leave for more than 6 months and return, your 3 year residency starts all over, so you have to live in the US for another 3 years before being eligible to apply for citizenship.

One down side to becoming a citizen is you have to file taxes every year, even if you're not living in the US.

[JoannaV 173]

If you're unsure about where your long-term future lies, and think it possible that you will want to return to the US, then you may decide to wait till he can obtain US citizenship before moving. However, if you're pretty sure about your decision to move to the UK, then you can go straight ahead and look into that. Someone should be able to tell you the good websites for finding out about that :-) If ever you do decide to move back to the US you will have to go through the visa process again, which will obviously cost you some money, but otherwise it would be pretty straightforward, plus you'd be living together in the UK the whole time, so not too much of a big deal.