Conditional GC & Overseas Employment

[indiandude1111 27]

Hello friends,

I am posting this, hoping people can answer my queries and guide me. Your comments will be greatly appreciated.

I am a U.S. Citizen & my wife got in the country last month. We even received her conditional green card & are very happily married. I am being offered an American job (non-government job) overseas.

So I think that I am left with 3 options.

1.My wife would live in the U.S. & I live abroad

So about 2 years from now, when we file form I-751, and if my wife lives in the U.S. & I live abroad (although both will visit each other at least once every 4 to 5 months) & we will have other docs to prove that our marriage is not fraudulent, but our addresses will be 8000 miles apart. Will this potentially cause any red flags when we file our I-751???

2.We both live abroad

If we both decide to relocate and live together and make sure that she visits the U.S. in less than 6 months (to not disrupt her residency periods, for her time to count towards naturalization) , then wouldn’t USCIS see that she’s been spending more time outside the U.S. ? As a permanent resident, will this option have any effect on our I-751????

3.Re-file I-130

Although, I do not want to take this route but if we both relocate abroad. Continue to live there for however many years, 7,8 not sure and then when we do decide to come back to the U.S. re-file I-130. This option is uncertain, whether she will be issued another immigrant visa and many more years until my wife becomes a U.S. citizen; that’s why I am not thinking along these lines.

I do not want to let go this job & neither do I want to jeprodize my wife’s legal status in America.

Which option you think will be ideal?

Thanks VJ members.

[Ryan H 3,813]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to Working & Traveling During US Immigration.

[Boiler 45,665]

Why is it so important that she becomes a USC?

[icv21 110]

I totally think it could look like a red flag...

Why would you bring your wife to the states if you are moving to another country?? It's like she is in the country without you.... it looks like you filed papers for her to live in the states by herself.

My husband travels a lot for his job but his home is here. You are talking about living in different countries for YEARS and just visiting each other every 5 months maybe.

What kind of job is is??? Does she have the option to go with you???

Are you paying for all her expenses in the states if she stays???

Maybe you have to make a choice and wait a while for this job....if her status is important for you as you mention. But more important should be your marriage

Edited December 21, 2014 by IRIScv

[indiandude1111 27]

I totally think it could look like a red flag...

Why would you bring your wife to the states if you are moving to another country?? It's like she is in the country without you.... it looks like you filed papers for her to live in the states by herself.

My husband travels a lot for his job but his home is here. You are talking about living in different countries for YEARS and just visiting each other every 5 months maybe.

What kind of job is is??? Does she have the option to go with you???

Are you paying for all her expenses in the states if she stays???

Maybe you have to make a choice and wait a while for this job....if her status is important for you as you mention. But more important should be your marriage

I just wish she did not immigrate at this time. I would have called her directly where I am going to be stationed and lived there and when we were ready to move to the U.S. I would have started the I-130, NVC process. But now that she is here already and I am debating what I should do, I am totally lost...

She does have the option to go with me & if she does go then she will abandon her lawful permenant resident status.

The company is even willing to pay our rent $4000/ month with other benefits.

and we do have a permanent home in the U.S. I can add her to the deed of the house and visit every few months, she would off and on visit me too.

I can support her financially and otherwise but I am in a fix.. what do you think I should do? because to me this golden opportunity is knocking at my door and at the same time I have to consider my wife's legal status..

[msbau764 245]

I just wish she did not immigrate at this time. I would have called her directly where I am going to be stationed and lived there and when we were ready to move to the U.S. I would have started the I-130, NVC process. But now that she is here already and I am debating what I should do, I am totally lost...

She does have the option to go with me & if she does go then she will abandon her lawful permenant resident status.

The company is even willing to pay our rent $4000/ month with other benefits.

and we do have a permanent home in the U.S. I can add her to the deed of the house and visit every few months, she would off and on visit me too.

I can support her financially and otherwise but I am in a fix.. what do you think I should do? because to me this golden opportunity is knocking at my door and at the same time I have to consider my wife's legal status..

Abandon her application and chase your dream in the other country. When you are ready to make a move back to the US refile. Plan the refiling a year ahead of your planned return back to the States so you aren't apart.

[NikLR 13,227]

Abandon the green card and refile when you're ready to move back.

[Boiler 45,665]

Abandon the green card and refile when you're ready to move back.

Agree

No brainer

[youngman2013 3]

if u really think pursuing the job dream will help BOTH of u and not u alone ,then go ahead otherwise consider other options because this immigration processes cannot be predicted and remember none of us in this forum works at the uscis to be able to predict what will happen when u decide to refile!

[NikLR 13,227]

Well processing times have gone down in the last 10 years.

Heck I MOVED to the USA because of my husband's job.

[raven52 233]

IRIScv, her post makes a lot of sense!

Spot on from my point of view.