When does the 180-day rule start? [merged threads]

[Mike E 11,741]

2 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Do you know how long it takes to get a re-entry permit, we cannot leave her mom alone there for more than a week 😓

It takes 2 years to get a re-entry permit.

 

I did not say for her to wait for her permit. I said to wait for the receipt.

[JeanneAdil 6,587]

8 minutes ago, CJohn said:

Do you know how long it takes to get a re-entry permit, we cannot leave her mom alone there for more than a week 😓

so,  your plan is for her to come a week

return for 180 days 

then stay a week and go back

without the 

reentry permit spending only 2 weeks this year is playing with fire

the visa is meant for her to live here 

 

so very sorry for her mom's illness / i know its hard as my son was going thru 9 back surgeries along with other surgeries when i had to visit Adil to satisfy immigration spending "quality time with my husband"

choosing what to do is never easy

have u thought to email embassy and ask if u can put a hold on the visa / it would require a new medical  

 

but how many years can u handle this?

[CJohn 1]

5 minutes ago, JeanneAdil said:

so,  your plan is for her to come a week

return for 180 days 

then stay a week and go back

without the 

reentry permit spending only 2 weeks this year is playing with fire

the visa is meant for her to live here 

 

so very sorry for her mom's illness / i know its hard as my son was going thru 9 back surgeries along with other surgeries when i had to visit Adil to satisfy immigration spending "quality time with my husband"

choosing what to do is never easy

have u thought to email embassy and ask if u can put a hold on the visa / it would require a new medical  

 

but how many years can u handle this?

No no, she will come in the port of entry and get the stamp i551 on her visa on September 2023.

stay in the US for 1 week,

go back to turkey for around 5 months until February-March 2024.

come back to the US and stay here from that point on.

 

She will leave the US only one time under 180 days.

 

We will arrange a caretaker for her mom by then

 

Edited May 18, 2023 by CJohn

[SteveInBostonI130 3,471]

1 hour ago, CJohn said:

My wife successfully got her immigrant visa printed in her passport through the IR1/CR1 process on April 12th. It says ''upon endorsement serves as temporary i-551 evidencing permanent residence for 1 year.''

 

My question is; my wife is taking care of her mother, in Turkey. Does the ''you can stay 180 days outside the USA in a single year'' rule start when she passes through the port of entry into the US or did it start on April 12th when she received her visa in her passport ?

 

 

The visa does not make your wife a permanent resident.  Read the second sentence you wrote.  "Upon endorsement" means when CBP "endorses" the visa when she first enters the US.

 

Her LPR status, and the timeclock, starts after the endorsement.

[TBoneTX 45,668]

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Edited May 18, 2023 by TBoneTX

[Boiler 45,788]

Just comments:

 

I knew somebody who had been gone 5 months and was given such a grilling that he Naturalised asap on his return.

 

The VJ record is 9 years coming back with no issue.

 

I did come across a 25 year one but do not know what happened.

 

How long have you been married, over 2 years in September?

[CJohn 1]

2 minutes ago, Boiler said:

Just comments:

 

I knew somebody who had been gone 5 months and was given such a grilling that he Naturalised asap on his return.

 

The VJ record is 9 years coming back with no issue.

 

I did come across a 25 year one but do not know what happened.

 

How long have you been married, over 2 years in September?

We'll be married 2.5 years in september

[Boiler 45,788]

1 minute ago, CJohn said:

We'll be married 2.5 years in september

Well that helps, so no conditions to remove, 5 months is no biggie but a re entry permit would be nice but she does not seen to have enough time to get one