re-entry permit

I have my green card. Recently applied for re-entry permit with I-131 for which I got a receipt notice from USCIS that said "USCIS has received your form and is currently processing your application. This notice informs you that USCIS is able to reuse your previously captured fingerprints and...

Hi friends, My child's re-entry permit is expiring in the month of May 2023 and I am travelling to USA next weekend to re-apply for another re-entry permit. I have few questions. Can someone help? 1) I am on GC and I will be travelling with my re-entry permit. Do I need to carry all the old...

I just applied for N-400 I left the country back on January and came back in June (5 months) this is for a US nonprofit that stills needs a lot of work on the ground I would like to back as soon as I can to continue building the nonprofit Ideally July - November (4 months) so that would be 9...

Hi, I and my family (me, my wife and my daughter) are GC holders and we applied for our re-entry permit (all at once) in May 2021 and we got a notice from USCIS saying that we don't need to go through the biometrics as they can re-use our biometrics that was done during our Adjustment of Status...

Hello, I, my wife and my daughter received our green cards last year and we were planning to return to India after we receive our green card. I applied for the re-entry permit for all three of us in April 2021 and mentioned in the application that I would like to receive our re-entry permits in...

Hi, I recently received my GC and planning to apply for re-entry permit. I have few questions regarding the Form I-131. Can someone help? My questions are below. 1) In Section 9 of form I-131 (the Preparer's section), do I need to enter my details when I fill the forms for my wife and kids? If...

Hello friends, I and my family received our green cards in September 2020. As both my parents and in-laws are aged, we are planning to apply for re-entry permit and going back to our home country to stay with our parents for sometime. However, I have couple of questions related to re-entry...

Hi all. I have 2 pending re-entry permits to collect at my local embassy (mine and my child's). I emailed the embassy after Christmas last year asking if they have any documents for me, but the answer is no. (i thought 1 month after Nov 27 is enough for them to be delivered to my embassy...

Just to share my experience. I applied for re-entry permit back in September (Sept 15th to be exact, of the date the applications got received). Applied for both mine and my child's. We each got I-797C dated a couple of days later (my child has Notice Date 1 day earlier that mine though)...

Hi all. I have a question regarding this - if i plan to naturalize using the 3 year rule, what do i need to do? Background info: 1. Wife is a natural born USC - left USA at the age of 2 and never stepped foot on US soil ever since then. 2. I got selected for DV lottery, activated the GC Nov...

Hi All, I have my biometrics scan coming up soon for my Reentry form and I was wondering if there is anything I have to take or what's involved exactly. Is there any kind of interview or that like when we originally did our DV interview etc? Thanks :)

Hi all. I have some questions here. Currently I am out of the USA - but will be in USA within 1 month. The expected duration of stay would be exactly 3 months. Within that 3 months, i would like to apply the following documents: 1. Green Card replacement I-90 for myself (my GC is MIA -...

Hi, I have a couple of questions about the re-entry. a) Why does it have to be submitted while you're physically in the US? Just curious. Because it's mailed it, it could be mailed from anywhere, why do they say you have to be in the US for it? b) Also why do they have to do the Bio-metric's...

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My GC secured about 8 months ago. I recently applied for a reentry permit to stay abroad for a long time. I also applied for my spouse (we married after getting the GC) a month ago. But recently we decided to move and stay in Canada until my spouse GC process get done. We want to reside in a...

If I apply for re-entry permit for 2 years, but come back during the 1st year to take care of business, would the re-entry permit still be valid? And usually how long does it take to obtain a re-entry permit?

Hi! I am completing the form I-131 which my university said I should complete as part of my adjustment application and I am a bit confused. Do i choose for application type: 1a (I am a permanent resident or conditional resident of the USA and am applying for a reentry permit) or 1d: I am...

I'm a US citizen and my wife has a permanent GC. She went to her home country. It has been 9 months but she might have to stay 6 more months because of family reasons. No, we didn't apply for re-entry permit before she left as we planned to come back sooner. What are our options? Our US born...

my situation is i have gotten my green card two year back but i had to travel back home for family and medical emergencies. I had my form 1-31 approved for the 2 years i stayed back home. Now i came back to US to stay and again some emergency came up and i have to go back probably for a year...