Permanent residency in USA and now back in UK
Oct 18th 2007, 4:11 am
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Re: Permanent residency in USA and now back in UK
Look on the Embassy/London's website for the information about giving up your PR status if you don't want to be one anymore (link from MrF). Details on what is expected from you for maintaining PR status are in the uscis.gov article "Now That You Are a Permanent Resident".
Oct 18th 2007, 6:32 am
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Re: Permanent residency in USA and now back in UK
Rene I do not have a card, so only my passport stamped with the I 551, so I dont want to be sending my passport anywhere! Can I go to the London Embassy to explain the situation? I will have a look at the I 407 form. Do you know if I should have filed taxes, even though did not work in states since last filed taxes ? thank you so much
The powers-that-be will take the I-407 without an I-551. If it makes you feel better, attach a written statement that you never received a final card.
I had used the London form for my Australian client. CBP had lifted his I-551 on his last transit through the United States.
The I-407 just puts YOU on record that you abandoned. BTW, there is an unpublished case "Matter of Wood" from the BIA a long time ago where the alien had been made to execute an I-407 reentering from Canada for a visit to his parents. At a later return, he claimed he had never intended to abandon -- and won his case.
Please note that the law of abandonment is quite grey and can be quite fact dependent.
