Abandoned Green card and a question on the ESTA application

[sealedwithmyhug 0]

Hello! My husband got his green card approved when we entered the USA last December. Due to a list of reasons we did not move to the USA and my husband has not entered the USA since he got his green card in December of last year and left after our family visit in January. He has filed his i-407 and abandoned his green card. He has got a copy of the i-407 to travel with. We will also travel with other documents to prove he has no intent of staying in the USA and that we are only going to be there for a family visit. However, his previous ESTA has expired and we have to apply for a new one. They have recently changed the questions.

One of the questions now states:

Have you ever been issued a passport or national identity card for travel by any other country?

I assume that the green card issued by the USA to him is considered a national identity card? If so, he will obviously not lie and put the information in the fields correctly with the id number and expiration date. My question is, since he has abandoned this green card and it is in their system as abandoned (as an email from the Consulate in Frankfurt stated) and he fills this out, is this going to cause a denial in his ESTA? I did not realize the questions had changed and we have no time now to get a travel visa from the consulate so I am hoping that the ESTA will go through and not be a problem. (We have yet to apply for the ESTA because he has to get a new passport next week!)

Thanks for any information.

[sealedwithmyhug 0]

Or is a national id card along the same line as a passport and only for nationals? Since there is no real national id card in the USA and when I google it it says that a green card can be used as a national id but the more I think about it I think that it probably means for nationals/citizens. So, we might have to tick that box as 'no'.

[Penguin_ie 6,000]

You tick "no" on that.

[Mollie09 1,543]

What Penguin said. The US doesn't have a "National ID card", a green card doesn't count.

[sealedwithmyhug 0]

Thank you VERY much. That makes things much easier.