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Subject: Re: keeping green card status Posted on: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 22:29:14 -0800

Thorsten wrote:
>
> Exactly. Nowadays airlines routinely (always?) scan GCs.

And the airlines are required by law to transmit the data electronically
to CBP.

> GC are also scanned
> by CBP officers upon re-entry, of course, and it seems as if the two
> systems are linked.

Since CBP gets the passenger manifest of every leaving and arriving
flight, they of course know when you left.

-Joe