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I discovered this with green card as well, one of the conditions to keep it is to not have permanent residence abroad. What this means is completely up to the b
by kmonsen 6y ago
I discovered this with green card as well, one of the conditions to keep it is to not have permanent residence abroad. What this means is completely up to the border agent talking to you on arrival. There have been grandmas that have been away for 20 year that were fine, and there have been people coming back after 3 months that were in trouble. I once came back a month after last time and was almost denied. Border controls are just very arbitrary, and it is up to the mood of the agent.
- klipt 6y agoA border agent alone cannot rescind a green card (although there have been cases where they've tricked non-native English speakers into signing forms that do rescind them: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/trump-travel-ban-yemenis-coerced-relinquish-green-card https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/30/trump-travel...). At worst they can let you in but send your case to an immigration judge who might. But the judge is an expert in the law in a way the border agent is not.
- kmonsen 6y agoTrue, but you cannot leave the court while waiting for the court case which is usually months and having this come up as a possibility is a terrifying thing. The problem is that it really matters the mood of that border agents. I have probably entered the us more than 20 times, and that one bad experience left me feeling super helpless.