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Gave up green card, now moving back to the US

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I am US citizen and I petitioned for my wife back in 2014 and it all went well and my wife got her green card. 6 months later her mom got really sick and long story short we ended up moving from Alaska to Sydney Australia to take care of her parents. I got relocated temporarily back to the US late last year and my wife came to visit me, of course they took her green card. No big deal at the time because I didnt think we were coming back here to the US after the short contract in Texas. Just now my company decided to keep me here permanently :(. I am currently in the US with my wife, house hunting. My wife is on visitors visa and valid for the next 80 days. I am not sending my wife back to Australia just to re-apply for the green card by herself. I still have the old forms from the last time I filed the i-130, i-485 and so on. Do I just need to update all the info and transfer it to the new forms? Does she needs to do i-693 again? they should have everything on file still right? any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

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hi

 

it doesn't matter that they have everything on file, she is filing from scratch again, the whole adjustment of status process,

 

she has to put her former A# and social security # on the forms, and do a new medical and maybe vaccinations if needed

 

 

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I sucks but she has to start all over.

 

Go ahead and file for Adjustment of Status. Unfortunately, the fees have increased this past December.

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Do you mean your wife surrendered her GC? Not sure what you mean by take.

 

If that happened people are usually paroled in.

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On 1/21/2017 at 7:39 AM, August said:

I am US citizen and I petitioned for my wife back in 2014 and it all went well and my wife got her green card. 6 months later her mom got really sick and long story short we ended up moving from Alaska to Sydney Australia to take care of her parents. I got relocated temporarily back to the US late last year and my wife came to visit me, of course they took her green card. No big deal at the time because I didnt think we were coming back here to the US after the short contract in Texas. Just now my company decided to keep me here permanently :(. I am currently in the US with my wife, house hunting. My wife is on visitors visa and valid for the next 80 days. I am not sending my wife back to Australia just to re-apply for the green card by herself. I still have the old forms from the last time I filed the i-130, i-485 and so on. Do I just need to update all the info and transfer it to the new forms? Does she needs to do i-693 again? they should have everything on file still right? any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

Something doesn't add up. 

Did your wife travel on an Australian passport? She presumably boarded the flight using her green card, but did CBP let her in on VWP? 

USCIS

January 16, 2015 I-130 Mailed, Chi lockbox January 20, 2015 Priority Date, January 21, 2015 NOA1 notice date, Assigned VSC, January 23, 2015 Check Cashed, electronically March 5, 2015 NOA2

NVC

March 27, 2015 NVC received April 6, 2015 Case#, IIN# assigned April 8, 2015 Paid AOS + IV fee Invoices May 5, 2015 AOS + IV package submitted May 11, 2015 Scan Date

June 11, 2015 DS-260 submitted June 25, 2015 False checklist (for ds260).. hello? June 30, 2015 Answered checklist Aug 5, 2015 Escalated to Supervisor review Aug 13, 2015 Case Complete

Consular

Sept 10, 2015 Interview Scheduled Sept 11, 2015 P4 Letter received Sept 21, 2015 file In transit from NVC Sept 23, 2015 file at Embassy

Sept 28, 2015 Medical Oct 14, 2015 Biometrics Oct 15, 2015 Interview (Approved) Oct 19, 2015 IV visa Issued Oct 23, 2015 Passport Pickup

POE

Nov 2, 2015 Entered the US Nov 16, 2015 Applied for SSN, walk-in Nov 20, 2015 Social Security Card recd Jan 15, 2016 GC received

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On 1/22/2017 at 1:45 PM, KierenHby said:

Something doesn't add up. 

Did your wife travel on an Australian passport? She presumably boarded the flight using her green card, but did CBP let her in on VWP? 

Yes they let her out on a VWP 3hrs later after series of interviews. CBP said that it's considered abandoning her green card and she can't be visiting. Anyways, we almost filling everything back on the forms, we'll be sending in the application in a week. 

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On 1/22/2017 at 2:12 PM, NikLR said:

Adjust status.  It's the easiest because she's in the USA right now. 

Yes she is with me now here in California and yes AOS is the easiest. About to submit her new application in a week or so. 

 
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