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SouzaHuynh   0

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Hello friends,

My company has offer me a job outside the United States in Europe, which is exciting.

There are concerns being that my wife has just started her green card application process.

I am sure if I talk to my HR department they are more than willing to wait a few months.

Assuming my wife get her green card in the next 4-6 months and my job offer is still overseas, would it be possibly for us to travel.

From my research it states that as a temporary green card holder you must stay a year in the US.

Could someone give me a solution how my wife and I can live oversea and come back 2 years later without green card issues?

Best Regards,

SouzaHuynh

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*** Thread moved from AOS/Family-Based main forum to the Working & Traveling forum. ***

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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Hello friends,

My company has offer me a job outside the United States in Europe, which is exciting.

There are concerns being that my wife has just started her green card application process.

I am sure if I talk to my HR department they are more than willing to wait a few months.

Assuming my wife get her green card in the next 4-6 months and my job offer is still overseas, would it be possibly for us to travel.

From my research it states that as a temporary green card holder you must stay a year in the US.

Could someone give me a solution how my wife and I can live oversea and come back 2 years later without green card issues?

Best Regards,

SouzaHuynh

http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/files/form/n-470instr.pdf

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Logan5 Rookie

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Not true. For spouses of US Citizens, the period she needs to have been a permanent resident is 3 (three) years, not 5 (five). Also, she will only have to have stayed in the US for 18 months of those 3 years. And of those 18 months, she will have had to stay in the US for 12 months consecutively. She can already then apply for citizenship.

Secondly, she cannot stay outside the US for "only" 12 months. She can stay away longer, provided that she keeps ties to the US (bank account, credit card, car insurance, driver's license, etc.); having obtained an I-131 BEFORE she leaves is beneficial but that is only valid for 12-24 months. If she stays outside the US longer than that, she needs to apply for an extension and provide reasons for such.

If her conditional green card expires before she comes back to the US, she needs to apply to have those conditions removed for which she WILL have to come back to the US to have her biometrics taken. If she remains outside the US, this process may be put on hold.

Hope this helps!

PS you can always have the Green Card be sent to a US mailing address (e.g. your family), from which it can be sent to your wife in Europe. She doesn't require a Green Card to leave the country.

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