Countries green card holders can visit?

[milimelo 4,234]

I found this link http://www.embassy.org/embassies/ and once you click on a specific country it takes you to their web site.

It is helpful as it caters to both USC and LPR and tells you what you need and where to submit paperwork.

LPR status does give you some benefit as your permanent residence is in the States and it is easier to obtain visas with your GC and your passport. I was just checking for German visa and like in Bosnia, we get discount rate for visas - only 47$ instead of 80$.

Edited for spelling :-) Serves me right for going to the gym and overworking the first day - can barely use my arms and hands (note to self: good thing I did not do any tummy exercises!)

Edited April 25, 2007 by milimelo

[StupidJourney 0]

I found this link http://www.embassy.org/embassies/ and once you click on a specific country it takes you to their web site.

It is helpful as it caters to both USC and LPR and tells you what you need and where to submit paperwork.

LPR status does give you some benefit as your permanent residence is in the States and it is easier to obtain visas with your GC and your passport. I was just checking for German visa and like in Bosnia, we get discount rate for visas - only 47$ instead of 80$.

Edited for spelling :-) Serves me right for going to the gym and overworking the first day - can barely use my arms and hands (note to self: good thing I did not do any tummy exercises!)

Thanks for the link. Helps some, but I really wish there was a list where we could see just which countries allow LPR without a visa and which don't! Too much to hope for I guess!

[meauxna 15]

Edited for spelling :-) Serves me right for going to the gym and overworking the first day - can barely use my arms and hands (note to self: good thing I did not do any tummy exercises!)

I feel your pain. Hang in there!

[Empress 0]

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I'm curious

[thesnowman 1]

I thought the policy toward Mexico, Canada, and the Bahamas changed this year, with a passport now being required. Better double-check before you or your SO try entering!

Rule change is that a passport is required for returning to the USA..... Not necessarily the other way around. This person will need to show there passport & greencard to gain entry back into USA.

Although that is correct, most airlines wont let you fly if you don't have a passport for the outward leg of the journey.

[payxibka 10,044]

I thought the policy toward Mexico, Canada, and the Bahamas changed this year, with a passport now being required. Better double-check before you or your SO try entering!

Rule change is that a passport is required for returning to the USA..... Not necessarily the other way around. This person will need to show there passport & greencard to gain entry back into USA.

Although that is correct, most airlines wont let you fly if you don't have a passport for the outward leg of the journey.

I think it is safer to say that the airlines won't let you fly if you do not have the proper entry documents for that particular leg of your journey. Airlines are responsible to make sure you have the correct entry documents for that leg of the journey and that leg only (because if you don't they get find and have to take you back).

Even before the recent relaxing of the passport entry rules, it was possible that you could do a one-way flight into Canada and do a land based crossing on the return and no passport would have been required for the entire journey. No airline would not have denied you passage for lack of a passport because you didn't need one.

Edited August 17, 2007 by fwaguy

[Boiler 43,622]

The list is:

Mexico

Canada

Switzerland.

[Dr_LHA 3]

The list is:

Mexico

Canada

Switzerland.

Thanks.

What a shocking amount of misinformation in this thread. People need to realise there is a difference between being able to enter a foriegn country and being able to return from that foriegn country to the USA.