I searched all over Google for a forum on immigration laws and this is all i could find. Then this particular section seemed the most fitting even though i'm sure my question doesn't belong here.
My parents and i came to America from Ireland 21 years ago and all have green cards. My parents just split up this past March and my father went back to Ireland since he had no where else to go. He was just recently granted disability and low income housing after being there for 7 months.
He never applied for a re-entry permit so i know he's only got a few months left before his green card becomes invalid. For some reason he wants to keep it. What are the steps he would have to take in order to do that? He has nothing here so he wouldn't be able to live here. At most he'd visit his brother here for a week or two but that wouldn't be sufficient, right?
Also, if anyone knows the rules when it comes to being on disability and leaving the country for a short period of time, please let me know. Even if he can't keep his green card i know he would like to come see my sister and I from time to time and we're afraid the Irish Gov. would terminate his disability if he stepped foot out of the country.
My parents and i came to America from Ireland 21 years ago and all have green cards. My parents just split up this past March and my father went back to Ireland since he had no where else to go. He was just recently granted disability and low income housing after being there for 7 months.
He never applied for a re-entry permit so i know he's only got a few months left before his green card becomes invalid. For some reason he wants to keep it. What are the steps he would have to take in order to do that? He has nothing here so he wouldn't be able to live here. At most he'd visit his brother here for a week or two but that wouldn't be sufficient, right?
Also, if anyone knows the rules when it comes to being on disability and leaving the country for a short period of time, please let me know. Even if he can't keep his green card i know he would like to come see my sister and I from time to time and we're afraid the Irish Gov. would terminate his disability if he stepped foot out of the country.