Should I use AP or GC to enter?

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AJD

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Here is a dilemma and I am not sure what to do. My 12 year old daughter is studying in India. When she left, she took advance parol that is still valid. While she was gone, her green card (and so is for the entire family) got approved. I went to local office and gave her approval letter and filled I-89. We all got plastic cards in the mail in a month. We now have a GC. I am going to India and she will be coming back with me to US for a short duration. The question is,

Should she use AP or GC?
 
GC, but keep the Ap document too so that it can be shown she departed legally.

one note of caution, in future your daughetr will need a reentry permit before she deaprts, if she is not planning to be back in 6 mths.
 
waitin_toolong,

I beg your pardon, sir but the rule is like this, after GC,

-Staying out for more than a year but less than 2 years, you need Re-entry Permit
- staying out for less than a year then nothing
- if stayed out for more than 6 months then one looses requirement of "continuous residency" to be elgible for citizenship. But this does not affect GC if duration of stay is less than a year.

Caution - However, continuously staying abroad can jeopardize GC if there is no "intent" to retrun. In this case, "intent" will be parents in US so she would be eligible.
 
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