Renewing Reentry Permit before it expires.

[touyats 0]

Hi,

I'm a green card holder and I have a Reentry Permit. I might need to go back to my country soon, to stay there 1 year or more. However, the reentry permit will expire while I'm outside. Can I renew it before it expires? The instruction for for I-131 hints that you can ask a new Reentry Permit if you lost it, damaged it or you returned it to USCIS (see top of page 3 of I-131 instructions).

1) What's the procedure to return a document?

2) Is there any chances that they will deny my petition since I already had one reentry permit?

[Boiler 45,662]

Renew it now seems the obvious route.

[Mollie09 1,543]

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Edited August 11, 2014 by F1H1I130

[Boiler 45,662]

You seem to be conflating 2 separate issues.

[touyats 0]

Renew it now seems the obvious route.

The instructions clearly says that a Reentry Permit cannot be requested if you alread have one which is still valid. But they seem to imply you can return a valid Reentry Permit. How can I do that?

[touyats 0]

So no one knows what to do to give back a Reentry Permit?