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aoum   0

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Hello I have a question concerning traveling... I have my green card of 2 years, that i have to renew in a year or so, I travelled a lot those past month going to visit my family in france every 2 to 4 months, staying there no more than a week. My husband works for an airline and I`m an on call employee due to my health issue. I wanted to know if I`m allowed to travel that often without getting in trouble with the imigration... Do you think I will get some kind of problems when it will be time to renew my green card?

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moroccogirlny   100

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Hello I have a question concerning traveling... I have my green card of 2 years, that i have to renew in a year or so, I travelled a lot those past month going to visit my family in france every 2 to 4 months, staying there no more than a week. My husband works for an airline and I`m an on call employee due to my health issue. I wanted to know if I`m allowed to travel that often without getting in trouble with the imigration... Do you think I will get some kind of problems when it will be time to renew my green card?

Thanks for your answers!

You are allowed to travel freely outside the U.S. and return to the U.S. Traveling outside the U.S. for less than 6 months in a year (continuous or frequent trips) is not a problem. Staying outside more than that has consequences on retaining the green card. The main concern will be to prove you have a bona fide marriage.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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If you traveled every 3 months on average, that's 8 trips in 4 years. One week absence from the US per trip, that's 8 weeks total. It's a non issue.

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.

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Agreed. +1

The main thing CBP are checking, when they look at your travel patterns, is whether you seem to be, in fact, residing in the US. Multiple one week trips, bracketed by months here, clearly show a pattern of living here and visiting other places. It's when the pattern shows the opposite - living somewhere else and visiting here - that they get suspicious.

If you were even on the road toward getting in immigration trouble over your travel patterns, you'd have been advised of it by a CBP officer by now. They don't hesitate to hand out stern talking-to's when someone's travel pattern starts to look like abandonment of residency.

You're fine. Don't worry about it. :)

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