My family emigrated to the States from HK as green card holders in 1999 when I was 19 and I returned to HK after just two months via Canada (and that was before 9/11 and so my exit from the States was not recorded) to finish my degree. I have never returned to the States after that. What is my status as green card holder? Is there any chance I could study or work in the States again and how am I supposed to do that? Will I become subject to any criminal liability? I was a teenager back then and did not really question the propriety of the arrangement mentioned above, which was something my dad came up with.|||As someone already wrote, your green card is no longer valid. You lost your permanent residency when you left the US for longer than one year.
Doing that is, of course, not a criminal act; neither is leaving the way you left. However, in order to return to the US you must either be petitioned for by an appropriate family member or you must apply for a non-immigrant visa to study or work there, proving to the US consular officer that you do not intend to live there permanently.|||you might be able to find your answer at the site below. good luck.|||You have no criminal liability for leaving. A green card is a privilege, not an obligation. However, you no longer are a permenant resident and need to start over.
If you want to go to school try a student visa.
Go to uscis.gov for the details, however, you would need to get accepted to a university who would work with you to get a student visa, if that is the route you wanted.
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