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Surrender Green Card

  • 07-11-2018 12:08pm
    #1
    redcup342
    Registered Users Posts: 1,387 ✭✭✭


    Just wondering if anyone has experience with surrendering their Green Card ?

    After receiving LPR Status (Upon entry to US) via DV Lottery but never paid the USCIS Immigrant fee so did not receive the Physical Card however LPR status is applied.

    The I-407 form states that the Green Card must be surrendered along with this form.

    Anyone have any idea on that ?

    Already sank a good portion of money into it and don't want to pay another 405 dollars just to get the plastic card to send into the Embassy.

    Also don't want to Engage an immigration lawyer, seems quite expensive as well. The point is we want to just travel to the USA on occasion and can't really figure out how to get rid of this LPR nonsense and just get a Travel Visa without paying a ton more money.


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  • #2
    Fr Tod Umptious
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,318 ✭✭✭✭Fr Tod Umptious


    Are you Irish.

    If so then you can easily travel to the US on the visa waiver program.

    At US immigration in the airport if the see that you are a LPR explain to them that your permanent residence is not the US and they will let you through on the visa waiver.


  • #3
    dennyk
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,715 ✭✭✭dennyk


    If you were never issued the physical card, you may be able to simply submit the I-407 without it; USCIS should have records showing that you were never issued your card. I'd email the London field office at USCIS.london@uscis.dhs.gov and ask them if there are any special procedures that need to be followed when submitting your form, but it certainly shouldn't be anything that would require a lawyer's intervention; lack of a physical card for any number of reasons is undoubtedly a situation that comes up from time to time and is most likely accounted for in their normal processes.

    Do keep in mind that abandoning your LPR status is permanent and you'd have to start the immigration and qualification procedures all over again should you ever change your mind and want to immigrate to the US in the future. Make sure it's really what you want to do before submitting the form, as there's no going back afterwards.


  • #4
    circular flexing
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭circular flexing


    dennyk wrote: »

    Do keep in mind that abandoning your LPR status is permanent and you'd have to start the immigration and qualification procedures all over again should you ever change your mind and want to immigrate to the US in the future. Make sure it's really what you want to do before submitting the form, as there's no going back afterwards.


    Depending on how long the OP has been out of the US and how long they spent in the US when they landed as LPR, it's quite possible they will be deemed to have abandoned LPR status.


    It appears the OP can also hand in the I-407 at a US Port of Entry.


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