Can a US green card holder acquire another permanent residency or can it be broadly interpreted as a desire to abandon the green card?
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@stpqls - Did you get an answer?
Most of the literature I read is heavily focused on being present in the US a majority of the year and basically never away more than half a year, that would seem to me that for example the Portuguese Golden Visa (which is a temporary visa the first 5 years) is not an issue, and whilst most would go immediately to Citizenship from temporary Golden Visas, even a Permanent Residency “seems” fine according to the literature which again focuses on both “spend most of the year in US and not a year abroad” as well as “intention”. I think getting permanent residency of another country in itself isn’t intention, BUT getting permanent residency and buying a home and actually living there 5+ months/year still isn’t showing intention to live there (assume 7 months in US). If you did something that made it seem you would live there in future, e.g. declare “I’m moving to Portugal permanently” maybe that would be enough.
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Thanks. Most people have stated the same. I tried to find a lawyer to get a legal opinion from USCIS. I failed to get a lawyer who can help me with that.