Are you really free?

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havasosa

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Hi;

I keep seeing that people send the congrats messages to the people who have been approved. From the bottom of my heart I wish them well too.

However, there is this message that bugs me!

"Enjoy your freedom"

My question is "Are you really free?" (After being approved)?

For instance I see people advice that "don't change your current job for at least 6 months".

Then some people say "don't go abroad for more that 6 months", etc. etc.

Any comments?
 
I read somewhere in this forum that the reason you don't wanna change your job until at least 6 months after your GC is approved is for the benefit of its renewal 5 years later. You wanna show BCIS officer that your company offered you that job FOR REAL not for the sake of getting GC. However, it's all just a precaution I wouldn't be too concerned about it.


As to "not traveling abroad for at least 6 months" ....hmmmh... don't know where this shit came from; as long as your passport is stamped ...don't see why not.
 
sinting

A GC is issued for 10 years, not 5. Sticking with a job for 6 months is a precaution. No one knows if INS checks it when applying for citizenship after 5 years or GC renewal after 10 years.

Staying outside the country continously for more than 6 months could result in voiding the GC, except in certain cases where there is a valid reason for staying so.
 
Any freedom is to certain degree. I understand that some control needed to be put in somewhere, so I have no problems with reasonable regulations and rules and limitations and controls. I do believe that I have more freedom in this country than some of others, and I do believe that I have more freedom after I received my permanent residency than while I was a visitor. Again, like what I said before, here is the bottom line: Act maturely, learn art of patience, focus on your real dreams beyond GC, treat your daily interaction with humans with most care, never break a heart, love this new country with all your heart, and do something great for this country so we the immigrants are remembered with good words beyond our times.
 
Originally posted by sinting
I read somewhere in this forum that the reason you don't wanna change your job until at least 6 months after your GC is approved is for the benefit of its renewal 5 years later. You wanna show BCIS officer that your company offered you that job FOR REAL not for the sake of getting GC. However, it's all just a precaution I wouldn't be too concerned about it.


As to "not traveling abroad for at least 6 months" ....hmmmh... don't know where this shit came from; as long as your passport is stamped ...don't see why not.
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You can travel right away with your stamped passport. I think he was trying to say don't stay outside US for more than 6 month at a time. There is regulation about that, you can find that out from your attorney or even INS official web site. I copied that part of regulation in another thread called "my observations, coming back with AP " and here is the part related to this topics: "... absences of more than one year invalidate the green card as an entry document unless the individual also holds a valid re-entry permit ... A foreign national who has been continuously outside of the United states more than 12 months may still be a U.S. permanent resident, but a special immigrant visa from a U.S. Consul will probably need to be obtained in order to re-enter the United States unless the individual is in possession of a valid re-entry permit ... Filing for a re-entry permit: A re-entry permit, issued by teh Immigration Service, is usually granted for two years and serves as recongnition by the Immigration Service that an individual does not intend to abandon permanent residence despite a prolonged absence outside of the United States. The application must be submitted while the individual is physically in the United States, and must be used for re-entry prior to the expiration of teh document ...

Please also be aware of that there is a 10 year expiration date on your Green Card. Everybody has to apply for the new card before it expired. Althogh the card will have an expiration date, an individual's status as a permancent resident does not expire at that time, only the card. "
 
gcard2002

Do you mean 10 years given at once ? I think someone told me before that they give 5 years at first and then you can extend it for another 5 years.
 
havasosa,

We all here are trying to get GC desparately.
Why? Ofcourse it gives us freedom.

What actually bugs, may be same congratulation message everytime.
Analyze that you will get your answer
 
I think people back home are more free..

I do not understand the passion of people who say "Enjoy your Freedom" or "Enjoy the Land of Free" as I saw it in some posts, and specially from Indians. BTW I am not saying it is not a Land of Free, It is. but important thing is how much freedom do you have? I do not understand why people forget that they came to this country from land of Free itself (e.g India), Where you can do everything what you want. GC here only entitles you to change jobs, and worry free life if you are laid of, open up a business. You will get unemployment benefits. Other then that I do not see you getting freedom in any way in regular life.I also want GC but for the reasons above, some how I am not able to digest when people say "Enjoy your freedom" as if I was not free in my COuntry. I think you are more free in India then here. More over you cannot leave this country more then 6 months to keep your GC status, what good is that.
My Friend is in Aus he got GC in 4 months after he completed his degree and can go to India any time he want and he can stay in India or anywhere and there is no need to come back to Aus withing 6 months, now that is better. I am waiting for my GC here from last 5 years and dont know what I am going to do after I get my GC. I feel people in India have better life then us here (Its just my personal opinion, not to oppose anyone's view).
 
as I know, idians can hold two passports
so though GC can not give you much much freedom, however after 5 years you can get US passport, then ... do what you like...
( I am not from idian, so...)
 
KRakesh,

Just as you mentioned about your friend's case in Aus(I presume Australia) - I had earlier posted in this forum in another thread about how easy, rather more straightforward and fair the process in in the UK, where I have personally myself lived, went to school and worked. All you have to do is work for 5 years and at the end of 5 years and 1 day, you can show up at the nearest HomeOffice(equivalent to USCIS) with documents proving you have maintained legal status and paid taxes for the last five years - boom! they collect your papers and ask you return in the evening to pick up the stamped passport with the PR(Permanent Resident) status.

They simply have cut out all the crap in the middle which we are all going through. Can you simply imagine how peaceful our lives would be if our processes here was even a little close to that?
 
havasosa :

One day at a time, Lets clear the hurdle of 485 approval and after that think of GC limitations.

No use thinking of it right now. Rules and Regulations will change by the time we get the approval.
 
if you are not completly free but still

you should be able to make more money, I have been loosing thousands of $, just b'coz I do not have GC.
 
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