Requirements after receipt of green card

[DuncanSimpson 0]

Friends.

Maybe I am being overly optimistic about timing: we just submitted the I-130 for my Mother-in-Law (from Russia) this weekend.

However, she asks about usage and residency in the US after she gets her GC. She (and my Wife) had heard that a green card holder must be present in the USA for at leasat six months out of every twelve months, lest she could then not get the green card renewed when required.

Does anyone have insight? Are there printed regulations about this?

Many thanks.

Kind regards,

Duncan

[LIFE'SJOURNEY 970]

Friends.

Maybe I am being overly optimistic about timing: we just submitted the I-130 for my Mother-in-Law (from Russia) this weekend.

However, she asks about usage and residency in the US after she gets her GC. She (and my Wife) had heard that a green card holder must be present in the USA for at leasat six months out of every twelve months, lest she could then not get the green card renewed when required.

Does anyone have insight? Are there printed regulations about this?

Many thanks.

Kind regards,

Duncan

If your MIL only wants to be a vistor, why not get a vistor visa.

[aaron2020 11,651]

A green card holder is a Legal Permanent Resident. In accepting the green card, the person is saying that he/she intends to make the US his/her permanent resident.

Establishing or maintaining a resident in another country is cause to revoke a green card. Spending the majority of the year in a outside the country is another reason.

Google "maintaining green card."

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Here are two publications - one in English http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/M-618.pdf and the same one in Russian http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/M-618_r.pdf

given to new immigrants that explain what their rights and responsibilities are. Page 10 addresses maintaining your permanent residence while travelling out of the US.