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Can I enter US without GC?

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Inky Grand Master

Inky   1,110

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Why wouldn't you use your green card when entering the US if you are returning from vacation. Did you lose it or something?

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Gary and Alla Grand Master

Gary and Alla   3,694

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I hold a British citizen passport and a GC.

If I go back to US after a vacation, can I enter US with the passport only (without GC)?

Does this mean I will enter as a tourist? (and not allowed?)

You are a resident, you cannot enter as a "tourist"... you are not a tourist. "How long will you be staying?" "What is the purpose of your visit?" Do you plan to lie?

They HAVE records that your are resident.

You CAN enter without your green card but DO NOT try to do so as a "tourist" If you lost your green card or you left it at home, then show your passport, say you are a resident and tell the truth. They can verify it and will allow you to enter. It may delay you for a bit, but DO NOT LIE!

Experience? Our son did it last summer when coming home from college. Misplaced his green card and explained it at the POE, they verified it and let him in (at JFK) He found his green card in his luggage when he got home.

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Stephy411 Rookie

Stephy411   0

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Thanks for your reply.

The reason I asked is yesterday I drove to Canada but forgot my GC. Turned back home after all the drive and waiting at border...

No, I don't plan to lie. Just thinking if using British passport is a legitimate way to enter US, since no visa is needed. (and since I forgot my GC)

Gary and Alla,

Do you mean with some explanation you can enter US? Is there a fine?

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Brother Hesekiel Mentor

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Go to the next U.S. consulate and get an I-551 stamp in your passport. Problem solved.

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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bigdog Veteran

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U.S. consulate should stamp your passport with I-551 documentation, next time, no net time.

In Arizona its hot hot hot.

http://www.uscis.gov/dateCalculator.html

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