{"id":471,"date":"2012-07-26T18:13:06","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2012-07-26T18:13:06","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T00:13:06","slug":"lpr-travel-outside-the-us-for-more-than-one-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"LPR Travel Outside the US for More Than One Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I\u2019ve held my green card since 1995.\u00a0I was recently laid off due to the slowing economy and am considering moving back to England.\u00a0I don\u2019t know if I will return but I would like to keep that option open if I do decide to come back.\u00a0What can I do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In order to maintain your permanent residency in the US, you must evidence your intention to remain a permanent resident.\u00a0This is normally shown through presence in the US.\u00a0If you anticipate being outside of the US for more than one year, you should at the very least, apply for a re-entry permit before you leave and make some regular trips to the US during your time outside.\u00a0There are a few other options to maintain residence but they do require some effort and expense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve held my green card since 1995.\u00a0I was recently laid off due to the slowing economy and am considering moving back to England.\u00a0I don\u2019t know if I will return but I would like to keep that option open if I do decide to come back.\u00a0What can I do? In order to maintain your permanent residency &#8230; <a title=\"LPR Travel Outside the US for More Than One Year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=471\" aria-label=\"Read more about LPR Travel Outside the US for More Than One Year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[129,130],"tags":[266,267],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-card","category-lawful-permanent-resident","tag-green-card","tag-lawful-permanent-resident"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}