Tip: If you have parents who just got their green cards through IR5, and they say they want to go back and visit the old country "for just a few months," I need your attention.
Old people can be stubborn, and often it is impossible to control what they do, especially when they are on another continent. The risk is higher than you might think that they choose to stay in the old country longer than 6 months and put themselves at risk of abandoning the green card - a very expensive problem.
But there is insurance against this development (at least for now- but it might not be available much longer), and that is a re-entry permit. For more information, visit:
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/guides/B5en.pdf
- curtis
Old people can be stubborn, and often it is impossible to control what they do, especially when they are on another continent. The risk is higher than you might think that they choose to stay in the old country longer than 6 months and put themselves at risk of abandoning the green card - a very expensive problem.
But there is insurance against this development (at least for now- but it might not be available much longer), and that is a re-entry permit. For more information, visit:
https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/guides/B5en.pdf
- curtis
