Ties to US needed for LPR absence of less than 6 months?

[YoungRL 4]

Hello all.

I have done some searching in this forum on this topic and I believe I understand the details fairly well, but I'd like to be sure.

My spouse and I are in the process of obtaining a CR-1 visa. We are planning on his arrival at the port of entry to be on a round-trip ticket; he will stay for a visit and then return to his home country so that he can wrap up his life over there. From what I understand, so long as his stay in his home country is less than 6 months, he should have no problems returning to the US, or with his naturalization process.

What I am wondering is, should we attempt to arrange any US ties (other than myself as his spouse) while he is in the US on that visit, just in case we need them when he returns to the US? I'm not sure we'll have long enough during the visit to await the arrival of his SSN to get a bank account set up, but that's one possibility. Perhaps we could also look into getting him a US driver's license in that time.

Or will we be fine without these things, so long as he is back within six months?

Thank you!

[Hypnos 6,576]

He can try to obtain them, but won't need them as a condition of re-entry provided he re-enters within six months, and possibly a year.

[YoungRL 4]

He can try to obtain them, but won't need them as a condition of re-entry provided he re-enters within six months, and possibly a year.

Thank you, that's good to hear!

[aleful 1,905]

hi

he has that option, which is fine

but you may want to consider also that he doesn't need to enter the country as soon as he gets the visa, he will have a stamp in his passport with the visa's expiration date, which will be 6 months from the medical

he can stay in his country to wrap up things, if it isn't enough time, he can always enter the US, stay for a little bit and then return to his country to wrap up things

[YoungRL 4]

hi

he has that option, which is fine

but you may want to consider also that he doesn't need to enter the country as soon as he gets the visa, he will have a stamp in his passport with the visa's expiration date, which will be 6 months from the medical

he can stay in his country to wrap up things, if it isn't enough time, he can always enter the US, stay for a little bit and then return to his country to wrap up things

Yes, the latter option is basically what we're going to be doing. He owns/runs a business in his home country with three other people so it will take some time for him to extricate himself from all of that; we just wanted to know where the threshold was for potential problems with him being away from the US once he's received his LPR status.

Edited July 4, 2016 by YoungRL

[newacct 688]

Technically, you can be denied entry no matter how short of an absence if they determine that you haven't maintained residence. However, for a first time absence of less than 6 months, it's very unlikely.