Comment by bapak
The green card isn't citizenship, you lose it if you don't live in the US. It's not like they don't know when you enter or exit the country.
The green card isn't citizenship, you lose it if you don't live in the US. It's not like they don't know when you enter or exit the country.
There is no magic amount of time.
If you get a green card and leave the us for any amount of time, on return the border agent makes a determination on the spot if you intended to live abroad.
Less than six months is simply less suspicious than more.
And what are you supposed to do if they make a determination against you, return to your passport holding country and hire a lawyer?
If the answer is yes, well then it is yet more proof that the US immigration system operates basically extrajudicially just like the IRS and ATF, and only occassionally do the courts pull them back in after much hardship for the plantiff.
Words and policies are supposed to have meaning, and I doubt we'll get any charts or graphs on border refusals per amount of time spent abroad for GC holders.
Well yes the actual please has meaning.
Green cards are for people who intend to continuously by resident in the united states.
If you go home for 3 months and get a job and rent a house then you no longer continuously reside in the united states.
It's that's simple, but there's no hard or fast rule on how many days.
6 months is a very long time.