Travel shortly after entrance

[I & JJ <3 9]

This is good to know. I was also wondering whether my husband would be able to travel right away or not. Thanks everyone for this useful information.

[tjnielsen 2]

You can travel back to the country in wish she came from on a IV visa but you may face questions as to why she is going back and forth... If it where me i would just wait to pay the AOS and IV bill untill its done it would save the money for the round trip tickets and avoid the risk of being sent back... because once you come back all she will have would be her stamped passport no visa packets no nothing.. so they may say no and send her home... but your best bet is to contact the NVC and ask.. i would just play it safe... the other thing you could do is conutine to pay and go threw the process get the visa she then has i believe 120 days to enter the united states there is no reason to stop the process.

[Jim Brown 5]

I'll be in England for 2 weeks for our delayed honeymoon (Scotland, technically), but we were hoping to travel back to the states together. She hasn't been here since we filed for the Visa back in November. The family function is in late September, and I'd rather not wait another 2 months to have our family together. I'm also, obviously, concerned about problems on re-entry, but I don't want to let my nervousness cause us to buckle down and shelter in the US and have her miss her grandmother's 80th. I'm not really willing to delay the visa process any further than it already is, at the worst case scenario she'd just not enter the US until after Sept, but that is a worst case. I'd much rather she come here and we start life together, instead of being apart even longer.

[Neonred 3,564]

You can travel back to the country in wish she came from on a IV visa but you may face questions as to why she is going back and forth... If it where me i would just wait to pay the AOS and IV bill untill its done it would save the money for the round trip tickets and avoid the risk of being sent back... because once you come back all she will have would be her stamped passport no visa packets no nothing.. so they may say no and send her home... but your best bet is to contact the NVC and ask.. i would just play it safe... the other thing you could do is conutine to pay and go threw the process get the visa she then has i believe 120 days to enter the united states there is no reason to stop the process.

The stamp in the passport is the I-551 which is a temp green card. No visa packet needed and they will not be sent home.

[Azzudiin 26]

Its all a none issue, once you have stamp in passport you are good to go, besides that you will get actual green card in about 2 weeks after entry. My wife got hers in mail in 10 days after POE.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

Hard to believe that this simple post creates such a lively discussion.

The CR-1 enters the US as a LPR and the I-551 stamp in her British passport is every bit as good in documenting her US residency status as the I-551 -in card form. Tens of thousands of LPRs travel this way any given year, so this is totally a non-issue.

[yohino 22]

It will NOT be an issue.

CBP at my POE even told me that if I wanted to I could hop on the next flight out of there after getting my stamp and be able to return without any problems.

Of course I didn't since I was quite excited to see my hubby,haha!

[Alex B 9]

All that is needed to enter the USA is the I-551 stamp (endorsement) of the visa.

I'd mentioned in another thread some time ago that following my AOS from H1B in 2001 I was traveling frequently for business and personal reasons on an I-551 stamp (and it's replacement stamp) for nearly 2 years. I never had a problem. Each stamp was good for a year and I was entering within the date stated. No problems at all.

Getting back to the OP: The point of being a GC holder is that you are to intend to keep your residency. Traveling overseas for a family shindig is completely immaterial, it shows nothing about your residency. Traveling outside following entry to tidy up personal affairs is also entirely reasonable and allowed. Go out for more than 6 months and you may get scrutiny. Go out for more than a year (without the reentry permit) and you've almost certainly abandoned your residency.

[mustafa1232 3]

I'll be in England for 2 weeks for our delayed honeymoon (Scotland, technically), but we were hoping to travel back to the states together. She hasn't been here since we filed for the Visa back in November. The family function is in late September, and I'd rather not wait another 2 months to have our family together. I'm also, obviously, concerned about problems on re-entry, but I don't want to let my nervousness cause us to buckle down and shelter in the US and have her miss her grandmother's 80th. I'm not really willing to delay the visa process any further than it already is, at the worst case scenario she'd just not enter the US until after Sept, but that is a worst case. I'd much rather she come here and we start life together, instead of being apart even longer.

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