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Marusia_GC

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Hello, I have recently become a US citizen, and already traveled overseas with my new US passport. Still I have a few questions that bother me.
1) I travel to, say, Argentina. I leave the US with the US passport. But may I enter Argentina with my other passport, issued by my country of birth? As a US citizen I need to pay an entrance fee, but with my country-of-birth passport I do not need any visa and fee. Would it be Ok if then I leave Argentina just with my US passport?
2) If now as a US citizen I go to work overseas for extended time period, would I have then any problems related to time frame of staying outside the US, when I renew my US passport?
3) My dad is in my country of birth, and he is very sick after heart attack. Some time after my mom's death he married his old widowed colleague, a nice lady who takes care of him (unfortunately, I can't be around my dad because I am living and working in the US so far and have my son, a teenage college student with me here). Would I be able to get GCs for my dad and my stepmother? My dad has just recently married, when I have been here in the US, I have never lived with my stepmother under the same roof...
These are my questions, if someone knows answers, I appreciate responding to me.
 
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1. Yes, you can leave and enter the US with your US passport, and enter and leave Argentina with another. No problem. Many people do this.

2. You can remain outside the US for as long as you like. You never need to return. You DO need to file tax returns anywhere you are, though.

3. I don't know the answer to this. Parents, yes, but step parents, no idea.
 
Marusia_GC said:
1) I travel to, say, Argentina. I leave the US with the US passport. But may I enter Argentina with my other passport, issued by my country of birth?
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Yes, no problem.

Would it be Ok if then I leave Argentina just with my US passport?
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No, it is not OK. If you enter Argentina with your second [Russian?] passport, then you need to leave Argentina with the same passport. You only need to show the US passport upon check-in at the airport.
 
Marusia_GC said:
3) My dad is in my country of birth, and he is very sick after heart attack. Some time after my mom's death he married his old widowed colleague, a nice lady who takes care of him (unfortunately, I can't be around my dad because I am living and working in the US so far and have my son, a teenage college student with me here). Would I be able to get GCs for my dad and my stepmother? My dad has just recently married, when I have been here in the US, I have never lived with my stepmother under the same roof...
These are my questions, if someone knows answers, I appreciate responding to me.
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Review this form - http://www.uscis.gov/files/form/i-130instr.pdf - under section "Who may not file Form I-130?", item #3 about stepparents.
You can obtain a GC for your dad only. It looks like you won't be able to obtain a GC for your stepmother, because you can't file I-130 for her.
 
Thanks to everyone who responded to my questions. Yes, I understand that I cannot get both my dad and stepmother live with me here. Also, I am concerned that my dad would never get through medical check- up needed for GC because of his recent heart attack. He is getting back to his normal self very slowly, it takes time... I cannot put additional stress on him so far regarding GC, though in the US he would have got much better medical care (from my personal perspective). But it seems unrealistic to bring him here alone. His wife can probably come only on the visitors visa, which may be unrealistic, too. They are both retired, both over 65. US might not give them visitors visas, especially to both of them simultaneously.
I suspected this, that's why I am thinking about going back to my home country, find a job there, and be able to help my old folks. But my son will definitely stay in the US, and I need to keep US citizenship and passport to be able to visit him. It is good that if I stay in my native country indefinitely long, I would not lose the US citizenship. It seems weird - just get citizenship and leave, but these are life circumstances, which are stronger than what we dream about or plan... So if I earn money there and pay taxes there, I would have to report taxes by April 15 anyway? I know that there are double taxation treaty, so I would not need to pay taxes twice?
 
Yup, file taxes. Al though, I know TONNES of Americans here who do not file taxes. I wonder what happens to them. They make nowhere near enough to interest the IRS, so is that a factor? I don't, either.
 
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