Entry-exit system
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I'll be damned!!! Really!!!
I can only think of the time when you ask for citizenship, they must surely ask you about proof that you actually resided here.
I've never actually found out even an answer to these: what's the longest you can be outside of US without losing your GC? Do you have to maintain your GC and/or citizenship to be eligible for SS (that it, unless it goes belly up)?
Goodsaint, you might be on to something there.
... how I envy guys with GCs....
I can only think of the time when you ask for citizenship, they must surely ask you about proof that you actually resided here.
I've never actually found out even an answer to these: what's the longest you can be outside of US without losing your GC? Do you have to maintain your GC and/or citizenship to be eligible for SS (that it, unless it goes belly up)?
Goodsaint, you might be on to something there.
... how I envy guys with GCs....
goodsaint said:
Firstly the immigration official will ask you how long you have been out of US. If you lie and later they find out, guess what? Martha Stewart is going to jail because she lied to federal officials.
There are ways to find out too. Entry stamps from other countries in your passport is one example.
I believe post 9/11 all of the airlines have to submit electronic passenger manifests to USCIS.goodsaint said:
The information on that manifest is extensive -- name. PP#, A#, DOB etc -- sufficient to locate your records...
when you come back in, they scan/swipe your GC at POE - I would expect that they can lookup your travel history right there
ruxrux said:
Hopefully you will get your answers from this link sir/madam
http://uscis.gov/graphics/howdoi/PermRes.htm
citizenship & travel
Hi
In the green card conditions they said that u cannot leave the country for more than a year. also to be elligible for Citizenship you have to dont leave for trip that is more than 6 months and the accumulation of all periods outside has to be less than 30 months. following those condition i left the US couple of years ago to study abraod and i paid attention to dont break those rules. when i came back i applied for citizenship but i find out that beeing outside the US without braking those rules will not allow u to have citizenship.
If the INS stated it clearly that you cannot leave the country to get citizenship may be peoples will not travel and they will not have any problem in getting this citizenship.
but what they said is that u can travel but come back every 6 months and dont exceed 30 months in total period outside USA and in the end they argue to give u citizenship.
what do youthink guys about that?
golumolu said:
Hi
In the green card conditions they said that u cannot leave the country for more than a year. also to be elligible for Citizenship you have to dont leave for trip that is more than 6 months and the accumulation of all periods outside has to be less than 30 months. following those condition i left the US couple of years ago to study abraod and i paid attention to dont break those rules. when i came back i applied for citizenship but i find out that beeing outside the US without braking those rules will not allow u to have citizenship.
If the INS stated it clearly that you cannot leave the country to get citizenship may be peoples will not travel and they will not have any problem in getting this citizenship.
but what they said is that u can travel but come back every 6 months and dont exceed 30 months in total period outside USA and in the end they argue to give u citizenship.
what do youthink guys about that?
140_takes_4ever
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Nope! You are no longer in the I94 game. If you are worried and want to do something you can always mail the I94 in, (I think). Best solution offcourse is to do nothing.
goodsaint said:
There is no I-94, its true. But when you have GC, airlines wll ask you fill-up a form at the time of depurture. You have to mention all the info - A#, name, passport number etc. It became mandatory after 9/11. Just like I-94 I don't know what they do with those forms - whther they feed those info in their system or just throw in trash.
I doubt that ... after wouldn't being a citizen guarantee you the right to move freely in and out of the US ....ruxrux said:
It might make sense getting this info to track non-citizens ...
On the other hand, the electronic passenger manifests that airlines have to submit to the DHS is very detailed and has pretty much all the info for a passenger -- but am sure they won't "target" just the citizens ...
if anything, I think citizens would be the last group asked to fill some inane form !
140_takes_4ever
Registered Users (C)
Pralay,
Not sure where you got that information, but I can tell you we din't do it for my wife (who is a permanant resident), when we went to France a couple of months ago. I submitted my I-94, they checked her green card and that was it.