By law, everyone in USA should have health insurance and anyone fails to do so must pay
penalty as much as 1% of his total yearly income. But if a PR temporaily live abroad for up to
two years with re-entry permit, what should he do? Although he physically live abroad, he nominally
still live in USA since he must maintains permanent residence here. But if he buy health insurance
here, it may not be acceateble where he physically lives. So should a PR buy health insurance
which he cannot really use only in order to avoid penalty?
If such penalty is criminal, failure to buy helath insurance can even indicate a moral
turpitude problem. he mai have to explain it in the future citizenship process. He can not
even give an exuse saying he did not live in usa so he is not subject to such law because
USCIS can claim that means abandoning his residence in USA.
penalty as much as 1% of his total yearly income. But if a PR temporaily live abroad for up to
two years with re-entry permit, what should he do? Although he physically live abroad, he nominally
still live in USA since he must maintains permanent residence here. But if he buy health insurance
here, it may not be acceateble where he physically lives. So should a PR buy health insurance
which he cannot really use only in order to avoid penalty?
If such penalty is criminal, failure to buy helath insurance can even indicate a moral
turpitude problem. he mai have to explain it in the future citizenship process. He can not
even give an exuse saying he did not live in usa so he is not subject to such law because
USCIS can claim that means abandoning his residence in USA.