Friends,
When the Green Card that you got after a family-based immigration is about to expire because the 10 years are over soon, what do you have to do? Everybody loves his Green Card and everybody has to be able to show his Green Card at all times.
1.)
Do you have to send your Green Card to INS via postal mail and take the risk that it could be lost on the way to INS?
Or does INS automatically send you a new Green Card valid for 10 more years to the address that INS has from your AR-11 form?
Or how does the whole procedure works? What do you have to do, where do you have to go, what do you have to fill out, when do you have to do what?
2.)
If your Green Card expires in a few months and you still want to make a trip to Canada, do you get problems to return to USA? I am asking because I know that you get problems when you visit a country with a passport whose expiration date is less than 6 months.
3.)
When INS gives you a new Green Card because your old one expired after 10 years, does INS ask you questions, like for example, how often you have visited which countries for how long, why you have changed your address in the US several times and many other uncomfortable questions? What happens if you can't remember everything of the past 10 years? Do you have to keep all your tax files of the past 10 years or just of the past 3 years? Does anyone have experience with renewing the GC?
4.)
Does your renewed GC have a new number than your old GC? Do expired passports have another number than new passports?
5.)
If you stayed abroad for a few months and you want to make sure that you enter USA without getting problems at the PoE (bad health condition, weak heart): How can you check in advance that your Green Card is not abandoned? The US government had announced a few years ago that INS computers automatically check when a GC holder left USA. It can be possible that the officer at the PoE swipes your GC and sees in his computer that your Green Card is abandoned. Is there a website where you type your GC number and you can see the status?
6.)
When at the PoE your GC is swiped, what does the officer see? Validity and status or also whether you got your GC because you have married an American or because of family-based immigration?
I have checked this forum extensively and I found no similar questions. Hope some of you guys can answer the questions because I am sure they might be interesting for all of us here in this forum. Thank you!
When the Green Card that you got after a family-based immigration is about to expire because the 10 years are over soon, what do you have to do? Everybody loves his Green Card and everybody has to be able to show his Green Card at all times.
1.)
Do you have to send your Green Card to INS via postal mail and take the risk that it could be lost on the way to INS?
Or does INS automatically send you a new Green Card valid for 10 more years to the address that INS has from your AR-11 form?
Or how does the whole procedure works? What do you have to do, where do you have to go, what do you have to fill out, when do you have to do what?
2.)
If your Green Card expires in a few months and you still want to make a trip to Canada, do you get problems to return to USA? I am asking because I know that you get problems when you visit a country with a passport whose expiration date is less than 6 months.
3.)
When INS gives you a new Green Card because your old one expired after 10 years, does INS ask you questions, like for example, how often you have visited which countries for how long, why you have changed your address in the US several times and many other uncomfortable questions? What happens if you can't remember everything of the past 10 years? Do you have to keep all your tax files of the past 10 years or just of the past 3 years? Does anyone have experience with renewing the GC?
4.)
Does your renewed GC have a new number than your old GC? Do expired passports have another number than new passports?
5.)
If you stayed abroad for a few months and you want to make sure that you enter USA without getting problems at the PoE (bad health condition, weak heart): How can you check in advance that your Green Card is not abandoned? The US government had announced a few years ago that INS computers automatically check when a GC holder left USA. It can be possible that the officer at the PoE swipes your GC and sees in his computer that your Green Card is abandoned. Is there a website where you type your GC number and you can see the status?
6.)
When at the PoE your GC is swiped, what does the officer see? Validity and status or also whether you got your GC because you have married an American or because of family-based immigration?
I have checked this forum extensively and I found no similar questions. Hope some of you guys can answer the questions because I am sure they might be interesting for all of us here in this forum. Thank you!