Visit visa issued after green card abandonment - Now requesting Green Card surrender using I-407

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taugusti

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My mother was recently granted a B2 visit visa valid for 10 years at the Chennai consulate. She previously had a US permanent
residency. However it is currently in abandoned state as she hasn't been to US since 2008. She doesn't plan to regain permanent residency.

However when they sent the passport back with the stamped visa, they sent her a letter requesting her to personally
present in Chennai consulate to surrender the permanent residency card.

She is above 80 years old and if possible would like to avoid to travel to Chennai. Following are the questions we have on her behalf.

1)Does she have to surrender the permanent residency card before she travels to US or can it be done after she returns?

2)Can she mail or authorize someone else to surrender the abandoned permanent residency card to the Chennai
consulate?


4)Can she surrender the permanent residency card at the port of entry in US ?

Appreciate your response
 
Since she already has the visa and passport, she can use it to travel to the US and surrender the card at the port of entry and ask for entry with the B2 visa. Make sure she fills out form I-407 and carries it with her. They'll send her to secondary inspection to process the I-407; she may have a wait of an hour or two there, so make sure there is enough time between flights if there is a connecting flight.

But before doing that, contact the consulate and ask if somebody else like a lawyer can can surrender it on her behalf and hand in the signed I-407 form, taking into consideration her age and the difficulty of traveling to Chennai again.
 
Thanks Jackolantern.
Do you know anyone who has submitted an I-407 at the port of entry ? I have asked the consulate and they gave a reply with a URL answering "How to surrender your abandoned green card ?"
 
There are some on this forum who surrendered it at the POE, although it wasn't their initial intention to do so when they arrived. Those were situations where they had taken several long trips outside the US, for which the POE officer gave them trouble and also gave them the option to sign I-407 and surrender their card. Upon surrendering it they were given a stamp in their passport which allowed them to stay in the US for a weeks under parole status (or some other kind of provisional/temp status, can't remember the exact name or number of the type of stamp). But in her case she'd be requesting admission in B2 status.
 
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