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I am a green card holder, but have been in uk

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Sallygirl   0

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Hey guys,

basically i moved to the US in May of 2008 to be with my fiance', we married on August 8th and i received my 2 year conditional greencard in February 2009. (it expires in 2011)

A lot of stuff happeend in my marriage and it eventually brokedown, my Husband cheated on me. I was left distraught and on anti-depressants, i moved back to the UK. Currently i am filing for divorce and it has between 2-4 months left depending on the courts and how fast my husband signs the formal forms from them.

I have a lot of friends where i used to live and after regaining confidence in my life realize and know i want to continue my life in the United States, where i got used to calling home. I had a job there that i'll be able to get back right away, and a friends place i can move in to until i can rent my own apartment.

I understand that i'll have to remove conditions with the U.S etc to become a permanent green card holder and continue my life as i wish to, but i am first worrying if i'll be allowed back into the U.S with presentation of my greencard. (I left in mid july 2009.)

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NigeriaorBust Grand Master

NigeriaorBust   4,087

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Because you have been gone so long it will be on you to prove that you have maintained residence in the US and didn't abandon it to go back to the UK. DId you maintain an address there ? Pay any bills ?

This will not be over quickly. You will not enjoy this.

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Yup, from 6 months absence on, the CBP officer may assume you abandoned your residence (which you did by moving back to the U.K., but I won't tell) and thus may ask you to document that this is not the case. Get your story straight so that it will work in your favor, is my thoughts to you.

What are the chances? I actually think that your chances to getting back in without much fuzz are much greater than those to the contrary.

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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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Bobby+Umit   161

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This post talks about the same thing.

My Advice is usually based on "Worst Case Scenario" and what is written in the rules/laws/instructions. That is the way I roll... -Protect your Status - file before your I-94 expires.

WARNING: Phrases in this post may sound meaner than they were intended to be. Read the Adjudicator's Field Manual from USCIS

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