Leave US for 4 yrs(Green Card Holder)

[Tawing 0]

Hello to all!

I am a green card holder and leaving the US for 4 years but be coming home every 4 to 6 months and staying for only 2 weeks every time I visit my family here in the US. My concern is, do I need to file for I-131? But they only allow 2 years to be out of the country. What should I do. I need to pursue my studies for my children's future. My husband and I can't afford to send me to school here in the states. That is why I need to go back to the Philippines to take up nursing.

Please help me....

Tawing

[Jasman0717 9]

Coming home for a few weeks doesn't meet the requirement of the GC. The GC is met to allow the beneficiary to live in the US, not some where else.

[YuAndDan 153]

Do you have a green-card now? You posted this to DCF forum which indicates you have not received the visa yet and US citizen filed for the CR-1 or IR-1 visa at the foreign consulate.

Perhaps "Effects of Major Family Changes on Immigration Benefits" may be the place for this post.

Green-card is for living in the USA not for temporary residence in the USA and living abroad most of the time.

Maintaining Permanent Residence You may lose your permanent residence status if you commit an act that makes you removable from the United States under the law in section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. If you commit such an act, you may be brought before the immigration courts to determine your right to remain a Permanent Resident.

You may be found to have abandoned your permanent resident status if you:

• Move to another country intending to live there permanently.

• Remain outside of the US for more than one year without obtaining a reentry permit or returning resident visa. However in determining whether your status has been abandoned any length of absence from the US may be considered, even if it is less than one year.

• Remain outside of the US for more than two years after issuance of a reentry permit without obtaining a returning resident visa. However in determining whether your status has been abandoned any length of absence from the US may be considered, even if it is less than one year.

• Fail to file income tax returns while living outside of the US for any period.

• Declare yourself a “nonimmigrant” on your tax returns.

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/men...00045f3d6a1RCRD

[yogib37 3]

HI

I have a suggestion..Why dont you apply for schoolarships grants, etc.. to help you thru school. Can you find a Hospital and take care giving job and they can help also with you with the cost of getting a Nursing degree.

ALso you can go to a commiuty college and take most of your nursing and then transfer and finish up

You cant just go to the Philippine and stay 4 to 6 months and come home, then go back. after a few time doing that the comstoms people could revoke your green card and you in a heap of trouble then.

There is always differnt ways to do your school here. Just look into it..

Yogi

[kins 0]

I am a green card holder and leaving the US for 4 years but be coming home every 4 to 6 months and staying for only 2 weeks every time I visit my family here in the US. My concern is, do I need to file for I-131? But they only allow 2 years to be out of the country. What should I do. I need to pursue my studies for my children's future. My husband and I can't afford to send me to school here in the states. That is why I need to go back to the Philippines to take up nursing.

This is how I lost my green card. They did give me permission to leave the country for one year, but no longer.

My sister-in-law also lost her green card this way.

If you want to keep your green card then I'd look at every other option you can.

[john_and_marlene 162]

The GC is not a substitute for a B2 visa. Using it as if it were will get it taken away.