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Leaving US 1st time after getting green card

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sim1138   0

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Hi,

After getting my permanent residency following being married to my American fiancee, we've booked a flight to go back to Britain to see my family over Christmas.

I was wondering what I should do with the I-94 I was given when I first arrived on my k-1 visa. As far as I know I am supposed to give it up when I leave. Is this still the case after I've received my permanent residency?

I ask only because I'm trying to cover all the eventualities when I return (I'm going to get a letter from my employer stating when I will be returning and proof of address of my US home too). And also oddly enough, the immigration official wrote on the back of my I-94, where you fill in the info when you hand it in (your flight number etc), he filled in the date. The date he wrote was the date that k-1 visa expired.

So I wanted to see if anyone knew anything on this subject.

Thanks!

Sim

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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You should have a file reading "Immigration" OR "USCIS" until you become a US citizen. Trust me on that one. Put the I-94 in it, just in case.

From now on, all you need for international travel is your British passport and your green card.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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Hi,

After getting my permanent residency following being married to my American fiancee, we've booked a flight to go back to Britain to see my family over Christmas.

I was wondering what I should do with the I-94 I was given when I first arrived on my k-1 visa. As far as I know I am supposed to give it up when I leave. Is this still the case after I've received my permanent residency?

Thanks!

Sim

I take it you didn't have an interview to get your PRC? If you did, they would have taken it from you then. I agree with the previous comment - just file it away in your own records. And you really won't need letters from your employer etc to get back in - you have a Green Card.

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