Green card holders can travel abroad for a maximum period of 180 days on each trip. If you need to stay outside longer for employment or religious purposes you should apply for reentry permit using the Form I-131 travel document which is valid for 2 years. Also you can use the Form N-470 meanwhile to preserve residence for naturalization process.
If a green card holder has to stay outside US for more than a year he/she should apply for reentry permit and get it approved before leaving US. With this reentry permit the green card holder can enter US again. The permit is valid for 2 years.
There are any number of violations that can result in deportation. A green card is permission to stay and perhaps work or attend school, it is not a granting of citizenship or lifetime residency.
Can you stay eight months out of US With green card ?
A Green Card is issued for a 10 years period. You can keep on renewing it as long as you want. So there is no limitation on how long you can continuously in USA with a green card.
Yes. The way it works is, you have to get married and stay married until the proccesse is competed. The proccess is completed when the INS gives you your green card for about ten years and then you apply for a citizenship after you got your green card.
A person is only allow to stay out of US for 12 months on green card. She will have to check with the local American embassy to get a permission to re-enter The United States.
No it is not the same. With international Student card you can stay in USA as long as you are a student with condition. Green card lets you stay permanently.
If you are a conditional resident 90 days before it expires you need to adjust status and get the green card with 10 years validity. Permanent lawful resident can stay as long as they want provided they renew their green card which is valid only for 10 years.
No, the words green card are not capitalized. A green card is given to someone who is not native to the U.S. but wishes to stay in the country.
Years. But if you let that tourist visa expire and you are still in the country, you will never get the green card. Keep your visa current!
Yes
The green card itself will be given to you if you stay married after two years.
Until and unless you want to stay in US with a valid status you need to renew your green card.Once you get your green card you need to renew it every decade to make sure your stay in US is legal. After minimum 5 years as a green card holder in US if you are eligible you should apply for US citizenship. Once you become a US citizen you need not renew green card since only after you submit your green card in return you would get the naturalization certificate as proof of citizenship in US after all procedure and oath taking.