Regaining residency

[Diux24 0]

Hello everybody,

My name is Adrian and 18 years ago my family and I immigrated to the United States from Romania. After 2 years my parents decided we should move back to home country due to some family problems. Moreover, we gained permanent residency, SSN and everything but we lost it as soon as we moved back to our country. The thing is, I was 2 years old when we moved back to our country and I have not been born in the US. My question is : how can I regain my residency, or immigrate back to the US by myself? Does the fact that I was 2 years old and I could not take a decision on my own count as a reason for immigrating back? I have all the paper work, resident card and everything. What can I do?

[Hypnos 6,576]

No.

There's nothing you can do. Sorry.

[ILikeBread 43]

You can't regain a citizenship you never held.

As for permanent residency, I don't know if you having been a LPR can help at all to regain that status.

[aleful 1,905]

hi

unfortunately there is nothing you can do, I had a similar situation, I had my GC when I was a child, my dad died and my mom decided to return to Argentina when I was 11 years old, I lost my residency

my mom decided to return to the US again and got citizenship, she had to file for me and I waited over 5 years, I had to start from scratch

[aaron2020 11,651]

Sorry, but there is nothing you can do. You have lost your LPR status.

You can not regain citizenship that you never had. You were never a US citizen.

Your parents made the decision to get you the green card, so they can make the decision for you to give it up. Parents are legally allowed to make decisions for minor children.

Best of luck.

[milimelo 4,500]

Play DV lottery if you qualify?

[EM_Vandaveer 2,408]

I found this thread on reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/immigration/comments/5jdfix/ds117_sb1_success_story/

The poster claims to have gotten an SB-1 (returning resident) visa in somewhat similar circumstances.

I don't want to get your hopes up, OP. I'm quite convinced that this story is basically the exception to the rule.

[Hypnos 6,576]

Interesting and enterprising application of the law and procedures.

As you say, I suspect that's very much the exception.

[EM_Vandaveer 2,408]

Interesting and enterprising application of the law and procedures.

As you say, I suspect that's very much the exception.

I totally agree. I linked it only because I found it strange that such a reddit post appeared on the same day as OP's question.

[Ontarkie 14,275]

~~Thread moved to General Immigration, from USC General Discussion. Title also edited as the OP never had USC.~~