Keep These Facts in Mind if You Desire to Preserve Your Green Card
By: Efren Bradford | Posted: 05th January 2011
If a person does not want to loose his or her green card status he must follow certain rules and regulations. He should not do anything contrary to the criminal or immigration laws of the country otherwise he will have to face serious complications. If a person does anything against the law he will be deported.
Cases of violation of law
People are liable to drop their right to a green card if they end up committing crime. The crime does not have to be a big crime or a felony. A person can even be deported for a minor crime. For instance, a person can be extradited if he or she helps another person to fraudulently enter the United States. He can also be banished on charges of domestic violence and for keeping even a small amount of drugs. Any crime that is considered as morally wrong (such as fraud, theft etc) or done with the intent of doing great physical harm to someone can lead to deportation from the country.
No set list of crimes in this category has been compiled. It is advisable to take advice of an immigration lawyer if a person commits any crime because in many cases a criminal lawyer may not be aware of immigration laws.
A person can also be driven out for few charges that do not come under the scrutiny of criminal laws. For instance, if (USCIS) US Citizenship and Immigration Services gets to know that a person obtained his green card through a deceitful (sham) marriage, or any other type of wrong means, he can be sent back to his country.
If a person stays outside the U.S. for most f the time
A lot of people are of opinion that they have to come to US once in a year if they have to keep their green card application status intact. But this is not true. The fact is that if a person goes out of U.S. and has the aim of making some other country his permanent home, he has to first give up his U.S. residency. The border officials will check your behavior for signs to determine that your real place of residence isn't the United States.
As a general rule, if a person holds a green card and goes out of the U.S. for more than a year, he might have problems reentering the country. But this does not mean going outside the U.S. for more than one year does not mean you certainly lose your green card. So you must get acquainted with the laws and make sure you do not get into problem with the law.
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