Paranoid?: Should I leave US for Business Travel

[AAZZ]

Name checks for my approved I-751 application as well as N400 application are still pending. Some how I have develop this paranoia that till I become citizen I do not have any rights (as per now removed AG Alberto Gonzales' statement) and can be denied to enter US on the whim of any Immig./ inspection officer.

Since the development of "I have no rights to get justice" fear, I have been avoiding travel out side US. Am I being too paranoid? Has any one ever heard of some green card holder who was denied entry coz his name check is not clear yet?

 

[Bobsmyth]

You're being paranoid. When you re-enter the US , CBP doesn't care if you applied for naturalization or if you have a name check pending. Now if you have a name check pending based on an outstanding deportable crime you committed , then yes you will be barred entry into the US.

 

[Citizentobehz]

Simply put, if your green card is current and there is no outstanding ICE warrants that against you. You are fine to travel as normal. Yes. you do have basic rights. In order to revolk your resident status, you will alway have the rights to present your case in front of immigration judge. It can not just be just simply taking away at POE.

 

[Huracan]

Unless you have some crime history record in your past (I mean, convicted of some crime) I don't think you should worry. I've heard of people on GC who have been many years in the U.S. without traveling out, and when they finally do and come back they are thrown in jail for a years old conviction that made them deportable under the 1996 anti-immigrant law (I refuse to call it by its proper name of immigrant responsibility act). This is rare but might happen. If your criminal history is clean you should be able to travel freely even when your name check is being processed.

 

[del0175]

Many of us have traveled without any problem. Relax and take a trip someplace nice; just don't stay too long.