Divorce after getting Green Card and SSN?

[hellINTIM 9]

There must be more to this as residing outside the US for more than 180 days in any 365 days period will cause the CBP to examine this behavior more closely. You cannot just pop into the US at the 5 month 28 day mark, stay for a couple of weeks and then leave again for another 5+ months. If you can show you have not abandoned your permenant residency, you can do this. The key is making sure you continue to file taxes and have other ties to the US like family. Once you hit the 180 day point, CBP can refuse your re-entry if they can prove you have abandoned your LPR status--this includes several short trips of less than 6 months, but the time outside the US is more than 6 months in any consective 1 year period. If you stay out for more than one year without a re-entry permit, kiss your GC good-bye.

OP: If your friend's wife has left the country and it has been awhile, file for divorce and let her deal with the CBP when she decides to re-enter the US. Who knows, she may not know about the rules on keeping her GC and may loose her LPR status. Your friend is still on the hook for the I-864 until she meets the requirements, but that is only if she applies and is granted any means tested benefit. Have your friend divorce and move on with his life. Do not let her immigration status affect his decisions. The only thing he can do is document her behavior and report it to the USCIS and let them deal with her.

Good luck,

Dave

Hey I'm just saying what I know .. Idk what they doing .. I ask the mother she said they stayed at Guam for a month or so then go back to pinas .. Idk about the tax and everything.. All I know they been told that they need to re-entry to any land in us every 5 or 6' months so they won't loose the gc.

[Dave&Roza 748]

Hey I'm just saying what I know .. Idk what they doing .. I ask the mother she said they stayed at Guam for a month or so then go back to pinas .. Idk about the tax and everything.. All I know they been told that they need to re-entry to any land in us every 5 or 6' months so they won't loose the gc.

This will work for a while, but at some point a CBP person is going to notice that they are in the US for 1 month or maybe two out of each year. That is living outside the US and not being a rsident of the US. If they want to live in the PI then why not just do so and abandond the GC? Or follow the proper procedure for remaining outside he US for an extended period of time. What they are doing is the main reason it is so hard for the rest of us to get immigration benefits to the US. I hope they realize that there is the possibility that one day they will be denied re-entry to the US and the GC will be taken from them unless they actually start living in the US and not the PI.

Dave

[hellINTIM 9]

That's her problem not mine I'm just saying my opinion / comments .. I don't want to argue what you know bcoz I'm just answering what's he OP question..

[chippo 2]

Yes the wife can return to the U.S. after a final divorce is granted. Your friend can file for and get a divorce in the U.S., he should be advised that getting a divorce in the Philippines isn't going to happen.

thank you for your service to our country

[hellINTIM 9]

Yes the wife can return to the U.S. after a final divorce is granted. Your friend can file for and get a divorce in the U.S., he should be advised that getting a divorce in the Philippines isn't going to happen.

Sir, R u still in USMC?? i need to ask something about the restriction of the tattoo. im thinking to transfer to MC.