Expired Green Card and out of the Country for over 3 Years

[Nikita2Charles 32]

Posting this for a friend, She divorced and her ex husband left the country 3 months before his 10 year green card expired. She still doesn't want to have nothing to do with him, while talking to a mutual friend, the ex husband said he wants to come back to the states and he's going to go to the US embassy to get his green card back.

Is that possible

Being out the country for 3 years with an expired green card, I thought it would be considered like he abandoned his US residency?

Any feedback please?

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Posting this for a friend, She divorced and her ex husband left the country 3 months before his 10 year green card expired. She still doesn't want to have nothing to do with him, while talking to a mutual friend, the ex husband said he wants to come back to the states and he's going to go to the US embassy to get his green card back.

Is that possible

Being out the country for 3 years with an expired green card, I thought it would be considered like he abandoned his US residency?

Any feedback please?

Yep, he abandoned his residency. A returning resident visa is a possibility, but he'll need to show that he intended to return in less than one year at the time he left, and his extended absence was unforeseen and beyond his control. US consulates tend to be pretty strict about this. The circumstances practically need to rise to the level of being in a coma or held captive by armed terrorists before they'll accept that they were truly beyond his control.

[Nikita2Charles 32]

Yep, he abandoned his residency. A returning resident visa is a possibility, but he'll need to show that he intended to return in less than one year at the time he left, and his extended absence was unforeseen and beyond his control. US consulates tend to be pretty strict about this. The circumstances practically need to rise to the level of being in a coma or held captive by armed terrorists before they'll accept that they were truly beyond his control.

Thanks, that person ex makes his own choice to leave the country and leave there, specially leaving the ex wife with a bunch of debt and was way to happy to have getting rid of them, so was happy he was out, and is As far away as you can get, but just itchy he might be able to come lurky around.