can you live country on green card?

Question

if i am living US for few months, every year, will it effect my application for citizenship?

Answer 1

It can possbly, depending on your lengths of time out of the country.....see info below for residence requirements:

Residence and Physical Presence

An applicant is eligible to file if, immediately preceding the filing of the application, he or she:

has been lawfully admitted for permanent residence

has resided continuously as a lawful permanent resident in the U.S. for at least 5 years prior to filing with no single absence from the United States of more than one year;
has been physically present in the United States for at least 30 months out of the previous five years (absences of more than six months but less than one year shall disrupt the applicant's continuity of residence unless the applicant can establish that he or she did not abandon his or her residence during such period)

has resided within a state or district for at least three months

Answer 2

As a general rule, if you have a green card and leave the United States for more than one year, you may have difficulty reentering the country. That is because the U.S. government feels that an absence of longer than one year indicates a possible abandonment of U.S. residence. Even if you do return before one year, you may run into trouble. To avoid a full-scale inspection, return within six months.

On the other hand, remaining outside the U.S. for more than one year does not mean you automatically lose your green card. If your absence was intended from the start to be only temporary -- for example, you left for vacation, but had a head injury and forget who you were for a year -- you may be able to argue to keep your permanent resident status. However, you may no longer use your green card as a U.S. entry document. You must have what is known as a reentry permit, or you must apply at a U.S. consulate for a special immigrant visa as a returning resident.

Answer 3

Banana Juarez...perhaps you didn't realize that most Americans don't have a problem with a person being in this country legally, i.e. with a green card or visa. Not wanting to support illegal aliens isn't necessarily racist. I, personally, am not pleased with Canadian, British, Irish or European illegals either. The issue is not race or ethnicity, it is legality pure an simple.

Answer 4

yes it will affect your chances for citizenship since you break break your continuous residency.You must live in the US 30 months out of the 5 years. But since you are a person that travel book your air fare at http://www.blesstravel.net

Answer 5

MY GOD!!!! finally answers without racist tones or am I speaking too soon?