what will happen to my green card if I travel outside the US for more than a year?
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Do NOT leave the U.S. for more than a year or you will be deemed as abandoning your residency. If you must go, you need to apply for a re-entry permit from USCIS.
626791
When you get a green card by marrying an American citizen you get under a 2-year condition.  The INS does this to assure that marriages are real and not fake.  \n\nYou say your friend has been married for more than 2-years.  The "key" to her keeping her green card is if she's had her meeting with the INS to remove the condition.  If this has happened then her green card can not be taken away because of the divorce.  If the condition is still on her green card then it will be taken away if she gets divorced.\n\nIf she gets divorced and does not have the condition removed her green card will expire and she will be an illegal alien.  Legally she should leave before her card expires.
753908
As a British citizen who lived abroad, the addition of finger prints to your passport will make no difference, as you had to come back to the UK to renew it anyway. If you live 300 miles away, then you have to travel 300 miles!
102992
These are good answers, although they assume you already have a permanent resident card. Is that your case?
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Maintaining Permanent Residence\nMaintaining Permanent Residence You may lose your permanent residence status if you commit an act that makes you removable from the United States under the law in section 237 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. If you commit such an act, you may be brought before the immigration courts to determine your right to remain a Permanent Resident.\n\nYou may be found to have abandoned your permanent resident status if you:\n\n    * Move to another country intending to live there permanently.\n    * Remain outside of the US for more than one year without obtaining a reentry permit or returning resident visa. However in determining whether your status has been abandoned any length of absence from the US may be considered, even if it is less than one year.\n    * Remain outside of the US for more than two years after issuance of a reentry permit without obtaining a returning resident visa. However in determining whether your status has been abandoned any length of absence from the US may be considered, even if it is less than one year.\n    * Fail to file income tax returns while living outside of the US for any period.\n    * Declare yourself a “nonimmigrant” on your tax returns.
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If you leave the United States for more than 6 months, but less than 1 year, you have broken or disrupted your "continuous residence" unless you can prove otherwise.\nRead the "Document Checklist" in the Guide to Naturalization  to find out what information you must give to USCIS prove you did not break your "continuous residence."
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In immigration parlance a visa is a document that allows you to enter the country.\n\nYou have to stay until you have your interview. That's the one prior to being issued a temporary green card ("Resident Alien Card"). There is no set time because it always takes longer than the estimate, which is all the DHS will give you. In my case it was about a year. After your interview you can apply for a Travel Waiver. I never applied for one so I don't have any experience of that. I didn't go back 'home' until five years after I arrived.\n\nYour temporary green card is good for three years. In the meantime, usually about a year before it expires, you can start processing for your permanant green card ("Permanent Resident Card"). Once you have that you can come and go as you please.
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Yes, provide that you are not under a court order from leaving the country. If you are and you attemp to flee the country, then you have another charge added to your record.
693358
No. They just add 0 in front (if it is not already there) after your get your permanent resident card.
683095
Your PR card could be issued for another 5 years, and you will have to complete the 1000 day period during that time.  Your previous stay will not be counted and if you fail to complete the compulsory period, you will loose your status as a Permanent resident.
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It depends entirely on the type of visa you use to come into the country.  In some cases it is months, in others, years.
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You have to leave and reenter the country, because you become an illegal immigrant as soon as you I-94 expires. The I-94 supercedes your you visa. The visa allows you to enter the US until 2008, the I-94 regulates the length of each visit.  You didn't get until 2008 because you probably have a tourist visa.\nOr you can apply for permanent residency.
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Only people with visas require re-entry permints.  As a Green Card holder you're a permenant resident and can come and go as you please.  That is as long as you have a valid passport from your country of origin.
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It would be safer if you did not. You will need to get a new visa to come back and since your H1B is not aprooved you won't be able to get one untill it is.\n\nIf you are willing to stay outside you US until your H1B is aprooved then no problem.\n\nYou could also try coming back before your OPT expires, but there's still a small risk
416911
Nothing , you just go in and start a new life, Ecuador doesn't car but the US does, they wont give you a green card for at least 10 to 20 years
575289
If they overstay their visa by one day, they are out of status and can be deported. If they overstay by 180 days to 364 days, they will not be able to re-enter the U.S. for 3 years. If they overstay for a year or more, they will not be able to re-enter the U.S. for 10 years.
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The simple answer is, 8 years. But, I'm sure there is more to it than that, such as what you can do during that time. Immigration laws can be confusing I'm sure.