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living abroad with US PR visa?

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Hello,

I hope I might find some answers here. I am waiting to receive my 10 year permanent residence card (I have my one year extension on the conditional PR) and do not foresee any issues with that, so will hopefully receive it in the next few months and I plan on applying for citizenship next year once I reach my 3 years of PR.

Meanwhile, my husband is in the interview stage of a great job that would sponsor and move us to NB, Canada. We had every intention of living in the USA permanently, and will probably still do so, but for now, this might be a great opportunity (my husband has been out of work for a few months now). I am not willing to relinquish my current status in the USA after having worked so hard to get it, and with my husband being American and all his family here, it clearly makes life a lot easier if I also have US citizenship (especially once we have kids). Furthermore we don't know what the future will hold and whether we'd stay in Canada for more than a couple of years.

So now what? I know the USCIS frown upon a PR living outside of the USA for more than 6 months to a year. But I also saw a possibility of holding onto the PR status until naturalized, even if I move abroad? Does anyone have experience with this? Is this at all possible?

Any suggestions appreciated...:)

Thanks

Emily

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You will keep a . . . um . . . "residence" in the US (which can be a tent with a mailbox) and plan on spending at least a few weeks in the US so that your absence of about a year or so is split in two absences of perhaps 5-1/2 months. If you want to play it super safe, apply for a reentry permit, based on a temporary relocation of your husband.

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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