adjust status on family-base category; need unique info
I will be filing for family-based I-485 *very* soon. I do not plan to
leave US until I recieve my greencard via mail. I must visit home, and a third country on the way to home or on the way back from home, as soon as I get greencard. Pardon me for the long post; I wounder whether anyone sees potential problem with my plan as explained below: while I can use my greencard status to obtain a visit visa to any country that recognize US residency status, it is EXTREMELY risky for me to let the home country government (the military thugs) know about my greencard. I am unable to find info on their laws pertinent to US greencard holder. Besides, they changes laws at their whim to fit their brutal rule. Three-four weeks ago, I called the home Embassy in Washington and asked what procedure I would need to follow in order to be able to visit home once I become a GC holder. The answer was: Better wait till you become a US citizen. No one here who's originally from my country has gone back to visit home as a GC holder and played it safe by waiting till they became a citizen. My sister (much older than I am ) has heard that in the 70's, a guy who went to visit home with his US greencard status couldn't leave the country (wasn't allowed to get on the plane heading to the third country; there is no direct flight from there to US) and hence couldn't get back on time to US and lost his greencard. I have visited home on F-1 visa. Since my government routinely seized passports from its citizens upon entry from abroad, I had to pre-arrange with the home Embassy before I enter the home country so that I would be allowed to keep my pasport with me and be able to leave after my short visit. Of course, my passport at the time had valid F-1 visa and visit visa of that 3rd country. In home country, a valid visa stamp of another country is required to be allowed to get on the plain heading abroad. Home government is highly xenophobic and loves giving harrassmen to those who applies for or accept the residency or citizenship from other countries. So I thought of doing this: 1) *Avoid* getting GC stamp on my passport (instead get the GC stamp on I-94); Since I would use passport to enter the home country, I do not want GC stamp in my passport. I hope USCIS can give nme GC stamp on something other than my passport; I do NEED the GC stamp as it would be useful for my job search purpose. SO, should I just not take my passport to GC interview and say it's at the embassy and don't know when I will get back, which really is the truth? 2) Get a visit visa to the 3rd country on my passport USING my US residency status. That visit visa stamp (can obtain multiple entries) would be my *ticket* to get on the airplane to leave the home country. BTW, that neighboring country has so many illegals from my home country, unless I show that I won't be stuck in their country, I won't get visit visa. I just HOPE THAT once I showed them my US residency status, I will be able to get their visa stmp on my passport and not on US travel document which ALSO can be used to apply for visa in that country. - Going to the 3rd country from US and then to home country is not a problem. The potential problem is to get out of that home country and also to be able to get on the plane heading US. In summary, my plan after reaching home country is - make pre-arrangement to get to keep my passport upon entering home country before leaving US - get visit visa of the 3rd country (that I need to visit anyway) on my passport in US and use it to leave home country. - once reached to the third country ont he way back, get onto the plane heading US by *showing* my GC status of US. I may visit the third country on the way to or on the way back; I will make sure to get at least 2 entries on that visit visa. Aside from my question about asking GC interviewer to give me GC stamp on something other than my passport, my questions are: (i) When I leave US, what would the immigration office at airport do? Stamp on my passport of leaving US? What would they stamp? Just the date and time or my GC status too? (ii) What about when arrived back to US? What would they stamp? If I get any stamp indicating my US residency status, I can kiss good bye to renewing that passport. The embassy won't even return my passport when I try to renew. They would just give me hassle, I belive. |
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