Is it possible to surrender US green card in embassy India and ask for multiple entry visa ?
I am from India and became US citizen. My wife and daughter with Green card are in India and visit in summar vacation. For my daughter's education I took 2 year reentry permit twice. We decided that it better for her to complete the school in India. Is it possible to surrender the Green Card in US embassy India and ask for multiple entry visa?
If this is done will the social security number will be gone?
Will I have to stop claiming them as dependents in tax returns ?
- Thanks in advance.
Answer:
Why would you want to surrender their green cards??? Just keep getting them the reentry permits and have them come back. If you are a US citizen living in the US, your child's domicile should be where you live. You can easily show that your daughter does not intend to abandon her status. But to be safe, either have her return every 6 months, or get her a reentry permit each time when she will be out longer than 6 months.
Just remember -- if your daughter and wife abandon their permanent residency, they might not get visitors visas to come to US. Why? Visitors visas usually are not granted to immediate relatives of US citizens because there is a presumption that when you enter the US, you are an intending immigrant. You cannot be both a visitor and an intending immigrant simultaneously and this is a fraud issue.
It's a bad idea to relinquish the green card.
Your daughter might have automatically become a citizen. Everyone knows about citizenship at birth, and citizenship through naturalization, but many don't know about aquisition of citizenship under the Child Citizenship Act (CCA).
one parent must be a citizen, the child must be under 18, she must be a permanent resident, and she must be in the legal and physical custody of the citizen parent.
She is in your legal custody, because that right hasn't been terminated. When she is in the US in the summer, she is in your physical custody.
Apply for a US passport for her. Good luck
A green card is better than a multiple entry visa, why would you want to exchange it? You can be a dual citizen, can't you?
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