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Traveling as a Conditional Resident

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dido121   0

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I am currently a conditional green card holder. Then 2 weeks after receiving my green card my husband and I traveled to the Philippines to meet my parents. I want to extend my stay because I was away for 5 yrs and a month vacation feels short. How long can a conditional resident stay outside of the US? Thanks!

12/01/2006 Arrived as B2

01/04/2007 Met online

01/14/2007 Met in person and life was never the same after the 1st date

04/24/2007 Applied for change of status from B2 to F1

09/04/2007 Approved F1

12/28/2010 He proposed

01/21/2011 We got married

03/02/2011 Mailed AOS packet

03/03/2011 Delivered

03/09/2011 Checks cashed

03/14/2011 NOA1 Received for all forms

03/30/2011 NOA Biometric letter received, scheduled for 04/22/2011

04/22/2011 Biometrics done at Oakland ASC

04/27/2011 Email and txt notice Approved EAD/AP Card Production. Touched I765 and I131

05/02/2011 Received Interview letter scheduled for 06/03/2011

05/05/2011 Received EAD/AP combo card

06/03/2011 Interview at SF Approved

06/11/2011 Received Greencard

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milimelo   4,477

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Here's a handy guide that all new immigrants should read - has answer to your question as well: http://www.uscis.gov/files/nativedocuments/M-618.pdf

ROC 2009
Naturalization 2010

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You are not a conditional resident. You are a lawful permanent resident. You have the same rights and duties somebody who has their Green Card for 20 years has. You can extend your vacation to several months, that's not a problem. Nobody will give you a hard time when returning, unless you stay out of the US for at least 6 months, or unless you show a pattern of being abroad, returning briefly for a few weeks, then leaving again.

Enjoy your vacation!

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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