Crg14624

    > crg14624 <member20421@british_expats.com> wrote in message
    > news:<34$246688$1589133$>...
    > > > > They will also not cancel someone's visa and admit them at the
    > > > > same
    > > > > time unless it is one of the old "INDEFINITE" visa stamps which
    > > > > were
    > > > > changed to 10 years plus one visit.
    > > >
    > > > I know of cases where they've cancelled Green Cards in this way
    > >
    > > They've been known to clip the corner from an old I-151 green card
    > > (which was blue with green stripes over the photo I think) but the
    > > person still got in. Maybe that's what you were thinking of.
    > This was about 10 years ago, and a classic case of a no-longer-
    > resident
    > permanent resident. He was making a business trip to the USA and tried
    > to enter on his Green Card. They determined that he had abandoned his
    > residency and cancelled his GC. However, they still let him in for his
    > trip. I don't know on what basis they let him in - perhaps parole or
    > WB (I don't know if the Visa Waiver program was in place then).

You hit it on the head. Back then the procedure would be would be to
either WT/WB or to parole for the purpose of the trip. I don't know if
they'd approve the parole post-9/11 though.