VinnyH

Maybe an unpopular opinion here, but I see no huge red flags. You visited last year for 19 days in June, 16 days a year later, and another 13 days 4 months later in August during the typical summer/holiday/touristic season... Depends on where you are from, but most people in Europe and working have plenty of vacation (in France where I come from, you get up to 11 weeks of paid vacation all included). As long as you have ties in your country (which is the case with your family and job) and can be articulate when asked about it by the CBP officer at the POE, you should be fine. There are way worse red flags than you... Maybe you should hold off on another visit until next year though...

I read everything, and although I cannot really help you with your issue, I have a couple of thoughts/comments: - file a deadline extension ASAP - talk with a CPA in person, or do walk-in/scheduled appointment at an HR Block center - not sure if this is specific with TurboTax (which I have been since 2010), I always do my taxes as soon as I can (in early February after I receive all tax forms and W-2): if I get a refund, I get it right away, if I owe money, I always schedule the money to be taken out of my checking account on April 15. That way, no last minute surprise or stress for me. Hope you can do that going forward. Good luck with your situation!

Even if that was no longer the case and SCOTUS were to overturn its own ruling in Hodges v. Obergefell, returning the marriage to the States, it is worth noting that: 1. at the federal level, same-sex marriage will still be recognized (along with its benefits, such as immigration) as long as the marriage is recognized in the state where it took place. The ruling at stake is not Obergefell but U.S. v. Windsor that repealed DOMA Section 3. 2. the Respect for Marriage Act passed by Congress ensured that a marriage valid in one state must be recognized in another state (even if that state were to no longer recognize same-sex marriage), and furthermore officially repealed DOMA Section 3. In summary, from a pure legal standpoint, immigration benefits linked to same-sex marriage is not likely to change any time soon. But under the current administration, you are never safe from some surprises, depending on how the Department of Justice will instruct the agencies to enforce/implement/interprete the laws.

This quote from an official statement by CBP Spokeperson Hilton Beckham has been relayed in many media outlets articles: Hilton Beckham, assistant commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), said, "Green card holders who have not broken any U.S. laws, committed application fraud, or failed to apply for a re-entry permit after a long period of travel have nothing to fear about entering and exiting the country." It looks like CBP clearly targets now LPRs who have been out of the country for an extended period of time. Since it mentions explicitly re-entry permits (which is issued for a leave of absence of a year or more), one would think that a LPR being away for less than a year should be fine. Yet, as mentioned by @Boiler, it is playing with fire. OP has reasons to be concerned for his wife, as we cannot predict for sure how CBP will handle the case under the new administration's directives.

So my husband's GC is expiring in a little less than 6 months (April 2025) so we applied for his GC Renewal through a I-90 Form submitted online. I read that it would take in average 2 years to get the new green card (USCIS Processing Times for I-90 / Renewal on the website), but to our surprise, after only 2 business days, we got a notification that the I-90 Form was approved and the new card is being produced. When we got the notification email that the case status had changed, we expected that it would be the appointment for biometrics, but no. It was a nice surprise!