I am a US citizen and my husband is Canadian and is a green card holder for 7 years. We came to Mexico last July 2012 to renovate our vacation home and sell it. The MX immigration changed their laws and we had to apply for our visas to sell our MX house. Our house closing is August 31st which puts my husband beyond the year mark. My husband could not leave MX until he got fingerprinted and this process took 4 months. Our intent was to sell and go back up to the US. We did not know it was going to take this long. We have bank accounts, did US taxes, have utility bills and US driver's license to prove we did not intend to move out of the country. We completed the DS-117 and I-191 form and called USCIS in MX and talked to a person there. She told us since it had not been a year he did not have to fill out those forms and to just fly into the US and spend a few days and go back to MX so we can close on this house. She then said that this starts the 6 months process all over again. She told us to bring all the documents that will show why he was out for so long and to also show US ties, which we have. She even said he did not have to fly all the way back home which is in NH. So he booked a ticket to TX and worried about what to say to them if they ask where he is going, since he is not going home.

Why would they ask where he is going? He is a green card holder. He can go wherever he wants.