As relatives, friends, school, work, and medical and other reasons, many people get a green card, it will leave the United States to live abroad. If long-term residence in a foreign country, whether it can maintain permanent resident status in the United States do?
The U.S. permanent residents staying or residing in a foreign country if more than one year, then he held a green card is no longer a valid entry documents.According to U.S. immigration regulations, they must apply to the Immigration Department before leaving to return signed entry permit. Typically, permanent residents holding a valid license in order to return to the United States, at the time living abroad shall not exceed 2 years. Wernicke also said that for some special cases, USCIS also has detailed provisions. For example, the U.S. permanent residents due to some unpredictable reasons had to stay in a foreign country more than one year. In this case, in order to apply for parole, you must issue a certificate to the USCIS confirmed that he did not renounce permanent resident status as a prerequisite. U.S. permanent resident if the result of receiving treatment, lived abroad for more than the immigration regulations, do not worry too much. As long as you can show in a foreign hospital medical records, or a doctor’sletter, your permanent resident status will still be able to be recognized, you will still be able to return to the United States. U.S. permanent residents stranded abroad can not return on time, there are some other special reasons. In this case, you can ask the country of the U.S. Consulate to apply for special immigrant visa to return the United States. Need to be reminded that you need at least to the U.S. consulate immigration records show the airport customs and other relevant documents to the visa officer also need to prove himself in this case did not give permanent resident status . If the visa officer did not believe that you have the right to take legal action in order to avoid falling into the illegal detention and deportation dilemma.