When must I enter the United States after getting an EB-5 green card?

Once you obtain permanent residency you will be required to live permanently in the United States. You are authorized to visit other places, including your previous home. As a recommendation, you should enter the United States within three months of obtaining the immigrant status and establish binding ties in the United States.

It is not clear whether you have been issued an immigrant visa to enter the United States as a conditional permanent resident or you have adjusted status to a conditional permanent resident in the United States upon approval of your I-526 because you were here in another lawful immigration status. If the former, you have six months to enter the United States on your immigrant visa to be admitted as a conditional permanent resident. If the latter, you will need to obtain a reentry permit if you plan to stay outside the United States for more than one year not to be considered to have abandoned your lawful permanent resident status in the United States. I would have to discuss the specifics of your case in order to provide more accurate legal advice.

Check the dates on your EB-5 visa! You may have about six months to enter the United States, but there will be a "valid to" date on the EB-5 visa, which allows entry.

I would advise that you make at least a visit for a short period. This way you can say that you are preparing to eventually move. If you wait too long then you may be questioned at the Port of Entry as to your intention to be a PERMANENT resident. All of the green card issues have changed since 9/11.

Look at your immigrant visa and make sure you enter the United States before it expires. Your eligibility for U.S. citizenship will depend on when you have enough days of physical presence in the United States, among other things.

Normally, you are given six months on your immigrant visa after the interview at the embassy/consulate. You are supposed to initially enter the United States within that six-month time. If, however, you must be in your country for an extended amount of time due to business or family matters, you could apply for a Reentry Permit after entering the United States within that six months, and then go back out to your country with that and you could stay there for up to two years. Another way that many EB-5 investors do is to come and go every six months to a year so as not to seem to be "abandoning" their green card status. As to the citizenship application, the eligibility is to be a green card holder for five years and have spent a minimum of 50 percent of that time residing in the United States. Therefore, if you spend more than 2 and 1/2 years out of the five years that you have had the green card, you will not be eligible to apply for citizenship until you could show that you have lived in the United States for at least 50 percent of the time.

Generally you will receive an immigrant visa with a 180-day duration. You must enter the United States within this 180 days.

Generally you must enter within six months. You need to not be out for more than six months.