OUT OF COUNTRY FOR SEVEN MONTHS, any problems!!!!

[mateja123]

I have been out of the US for almost seven months now' and am planning to return to the US. Do I face any difficulties at the entry? I lost my job and the job market is pretty bad in the US and decided to stay home for a while.
Thank you all for your comments.

[nick715us]

do you have a re-entry permit? If yes, coming back shouldn't be a problem going by my personal experience.

I'm not sure what the challenges are if you don't have a re-entry permit.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by mateja123

I have been out of the US for almost seven months now' and am planning to return to the US. Do I face any difficulties at the entry? I lost my job and the job market is pretty bad in the US and decided to stay home for a while.
Thank you all for your comments.

[Jackolantern]

If this is your only long trip in the past year or two and you return before you have been away for a year, you should be OK at the port of entry (although you may get hassled a bit because you are now in the category of "seeking admission" as a result of the 7 month trip).

However, because this trip is more than 6 months, it creates the presumption of breaking continuous residence for naturalization purposes, which would delay your eligibility for citizenship.

[Triple Citizen]

Being a GC holder, you still do not consider the US your home. This is a bigger problem than returning to the US in my opinion.

Originally Posted by mateja123

I lost my job and the job market is pretty bad in the US and decided to stay home for a while.

[sotiredofwaiting]

Originally Posted by Triple Citizen

Being a GC holder, you still do not consider the US your home. This is a bigger problem than returning to the US in my opinion.

Until such time when they ask returning LPRs at the border "Do you consider US your home?" and check your answer with a lie detector, it's not a big problem

[Jackolantern]

Originally Posted by sotiredofwaiting

Until such time when they ask returning LPRs at the border "Do you consider US your home?" and check your answer with a lie detector, it's not a big problem

It could be a problem, because thinking of their birth country as "home" sometimes leads people to slip up and call that place home when questioned aggressively by Immigration officers.

[Triple Citizen]

My last post had nothing to do with what happens, or could happen, at a POE. I am just surprised when GC holders call other countries home. I call Pakistan the country where I was born and where my grandmother lives. I call Canada the country where I used to live before moving to the US and where my parents and siblings still live. I call US my home.

Originally Posted by sotiredofwaiting

Until such time when they ask returning LPRs at the border "Do you consider US your home?" and check your answer with a lie detector, it's not a big problem

[GC_TRAP]

Simply semantics on what you call home, on the forum you can call home where you were born, or to family and friends, and to Immigration you obviously want to call the US home. But to suddenly pretend you have nothing to do with the country of your birth and to not mention it as home in this forum is absurd IMHO.

To answer your question, I think you will be fine as long as you have a good, valid reason you can provide, which sometimes includes taking care of ill parents, dealing with finalisation of sale of ancestral property etc, or personal health issues.

Good luck!

Originally Posted by Triple Citizen

Being a GC holder, you still do not consider the US your home. This is a bigger problem than returning to the US in my opinion.

[Triple Citizen]

No one was suggesting that.

Originally Posted by GC_TRAP

But to suddenly pretend you have nothing to do with the country of your birth and to not mention it as home in this forum is absurd IMHO.