Crossroads

My AOS was approved in  August 2012 and I am eligible for filing naturalization anytime now under the 5 year rule. Two years ago, I moved from the address given during my GC filing. Should I and/or my sponsor notify USCIS of the change of address? My husband, who is also my sponsor, is lackadaisical about notifying USCIS since our relationship has run its course and we may not be together for too long. If I, the petitioner, is the one who should notify USCIS, am I too late? I do not want to jeopardize my naturalization due to this ovesight. Any advice is appreciated. Thanks!

Your husband / sponsor must update his address too.

Yes, go ahead and file the change of address.

Thanks, Anh map! So, my oversight in not intimating as soon as we moved is not an issue? If only I had known....

Hi all, I have been a LPR for four years now, after getting my marriage-based GC. I moved to a new address four months back, but was not aware I have to inform the USCIS. I will be filing for citizenship soon, so do not want this to become an issue. Is it too late for me to do this online now? I do not have any pending procedures with the USCIS at the moment, nor do I have any upcoming interviews. I just want to make sure that I do not have any issues while filing for citizenship. Also, can my husband send in the sponsor's form via mail too? Thanks in advance for your responses.

What visa status did you adjust from? If you had a sponsor/co-sponsor who also moved, they would also need to notify USCIS of the change in address as well using form I-865.

Thanks, kitthekat. I adjusted from a student visa. Yes, I will ask my sponsor to change the address too.

Thanks

Just wanted to know if anything else needed to be done?

Dear VJers, I received my 10 year green card in 2012. Now, I have moved to a different address but was not aware that I should intimate change of address to the USCIS. I moved in the first week of December.

Now, when I go to the USCIS site to register my changed address, it says I should do it no more than ten days after moving. Can I still go ahead and register?

What else do I need to do?

Please help.

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Your husband had to sign a financial responsability form for you to come here. So if you divorce, he must support you. Now as far as work, have you looked everywhere for work ie, fast food, housekeeping, janitorial. You must go out and find a job. They may not pay a lot, but your hasband would not have bases for abandonment.

If you surrender your green card you are in effect giving it up , considered to be a permanent action for that green card. You would have to be repetitioned to get a new green card.

Thanks for the heads up. Really appreciate your response.

Sorry I do not know the answers to your other questions but I DO know there is no "reversing a GC abandonment". Once it's turned in, if or when you get another GC, it's the same procedure all over again.

Good luck with everything!

Thanks for your reply. Will it still be considered 'abandonment' even if I surrender the GC to the consulate in my home country? I am not technically abandoning, right?

I have posted in this site before under a different username and have received invaluable advice. Am positive same will apply now.

A year back, I adjusted status to PR based on marriage to US Citizen and received my ten year unconditional GC. However, things have not been going so well for me mostly because I have been unable to find a job and my husband has indicated that he will not continue supporting me for much longer.

I have tried all I can to find a job, but have not been successful so far. Hence, I am thinking of returning to my home country (where it will be easier for me to support myself) and applying for US jobs from there. I have a couple of questions that I am hoping someone can answer.

1)Given the fact that I am not very sure about returning to the US in the immediate future but don't want to jeopardize my chances of a possible return, is it better to apply for a re-entry permit? I know the clock stops after six months of leaving US, but I want to keep my options open.

2) If, after returning to my home country (after obtaining the re-entry permit), I decide I do not want to return to the US at that point of time and surrender my GC to the nearest consulate, do I have to go through the whole GC filing process once again if (at some later point in time), I decide to come back again? Or is there a simpler procedure to reverse GC abandonment?

How long does it take for a reentry permit to arrive? Please understand that I am in a very confused state of mind right now and exploring various options. I cannot continue living in the US at this point of time without a job but I also would like to keep the door open for the future. Thanks in advance for your replies.