As a green card holder, you can go back to Laos anytime but must return back to the US within 6 months from the day you left the country otherwise you will loose your permanant resident status.  You don't need any other document to travel back home except your green card and Laos passport.

yes, you can visit laos with a green card but you have to apply for a re-entry permit from ushs first. you cannot stay longer than 6 month otherwise you cannot enter the us, if you stay outside of us more than 6 months.

why are asking? i thought you were a us citizenship.

USHS US HOMELAND SECURITY - there is no such a thing as a white passport, it calls re-enter permit.

-- Edited by SJCALSBM3 at 03:59, 2008-10-01

BruceLaoMan wrote:

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Can Laotians oversea who only carry green card visit Laos? And if they can, how long can they stay there? Are there any other document require besides Green card and VISA?

Thanks in advance for any information.

 

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Hey Bruce,

Have you ever been back to Laos?  Anyone in Samakomlao care to join me for some beerlao this December?  1st round is on me, after that you buying your own beers. hahhahahhahah  And no politic talks at my drinking table, I dont want to get arrested in Laos.

 

SeeHarHed wrote:

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BruceLaoMan wrote:

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Can Laotians oversea who only carry green card visit Laos? And if they can, how long can they stay there? Are there any other document require besides Green card and VISA?

Thanks in advance for any information.

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Hey Bruce,

Have you ever been back to Laos?  Anyone in Samakomlao care to join me for some beerlao this December?  1st round is on me, after that you buying your own beers. hahhahahhahah  And no politic talks at my drinking table, I dont want to get arrested in Laos.

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I'm in...will be there ! you name the place and I will be there for the first round ehehhe ...Moon the Nite is a nice place to hang out and Mekong Breeze got good roasted chicken, duck, ribs, etc...along with beerlao and karaoke while watching the sunset over the mekong

Hi all


you guys can visit Laos whenever you want as long as you are not in the black list of Lao PDR.

-- Edited by BruceLaoMan at 16:36, 2008-10-01

BruceLaoMan wrote:

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Bring a lot of cash? The law states that only $10,000 person. If you carry more than the specified amount, you would not be allowed to travel or worse, you can also be arrested.  Can we write a travel check in Laos?

-- Edited by BruceLaoMan at 16:36, 2008-10-01

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Bruce man lao ...more than $10,000 is allowed just inform the immigration of USA custom by fill out form(s). And who said you will be arrested? Travel check, credit card, and ATM is accepted. come experience Laos Mr. Lao Bruce Man-you will love my country(the village, the food, the lao, etc) come come come ....everyone is welcome to my country my kingdom.

Yuu Dee Mii Hang Der pii nong Lao USA and around the globe....

Be good: Spend almost all of your us$ money in Laos, not in bars nightclubs discotheques or in the massage parlours Thailand and get HIV/AIDS from those women or girls.

 ຄົນລາວ ທຸກຄົນ ຢູ່  USA , please , remeber that Green card is ID card of Immegrant who gets the  permition from US's Goverment to stay in US and suitable and good for re-netry to  USA only but is not good for entry or re-entry Laos, entry Laos you should have the valid Lao passport and American pasport, the green card is permission  in stead of US's  visa and is not lao visa .

I hope u understand  , do not misunderstand it  in order  to return safety to your hard work place  and get OT job  as you prefer. Giving your money to other people and your relative in Laos is your right and your obligations accordingly to our custom and culture.


ລາວ ວຽງຈັນ

easy life indeed.

How can Lao people still have times to celebrate and observe all of these festivals and events? LOL

Laos festivals and events

JANUARY
 

Bun Pha Vet It is a temple-centre festival in which the jataka or birth-tale of Prince Vestsantara, the Buddha’s penultimate life, is recited. in temples throughout the country and this is considered a particularly auspicious time for ordination as a monk. Falling on different dates throughout the month - so that people can exchange invitations with friends and families in different villages to join in their celebrations.  This is also a favoured time (second to Khao Phansaa) for Lao males to be ordained into the monkhood.

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FEBRUARY
 

Marha Puha (or Makka Bu-sao)Held on the night of the full moon, this festival commemorates a speech given by the buddha to 1,250 enlightened monks who came to hear him without prior summons. In the talk, the Buddha laid down the first monastic regulations and predicted his own death. Chanting and offerings mark the festival, culminating in the candlelit circumambulation of wats (temples) throughout the country (celebrated most fervently in Vientiane and at the Khmer ruins of Wat Phu, near Champasak). The festival is marked by grand parades of candle-bearing worshippers circling their local temples, merit-making, and much religious music and chanting.

Vietnamese Tet and Chinese New Year Celebrated in Vientiane, Pakse and Savannakhet with parties, and hundreds of strings of non-stop firecrackers, merit making with noisy parties and visits to Vietnamese and Chinese temples by the larger Vietnamese and Chinese communities, who close their businesses for several days during this period.

Sikhotabong Festival organized in Khammouan from Feb 5 to Feb 8 this religious festival is held at Sikhottabong stupa, located about 6 km south of Thakhek. Historically, it was built in the 8th and 10th centuries by King Nanthasene. Then the stupa was restored as its original design in the 1950's.

Wat Phu festivalorganized annually in Champasak from Feb 5 to Feb 8, in the full moon of the 3rd month of lunar calendar,on the grounds of the enchanting pre-Angkorian.Wat Phu remains in Champasak. Festivities are elephants racing, buffaloes fighting,****s fighting and performances of Lao traditional music and dance.The trade fair showcasing the products from the southern province of Laos,Thailand,Cambodia and Vietnam is also held

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MARCH
 

Boun Khoun Khao - A harvest festival celebrated at local temples and wats

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APRIL

 

Boun Pimai (or Pimai Lao) one of the most important annual festivals, particularly in (Luang Prabang). is to celebrate Lao New Year in the lasting several days in mid-April (13-15),  The first month of the Lao New Year is actually December but festivities are delayed until April when days are longer than nights.  By April it’s also hotting up, so having hoses leveled at you and buckets of water dumped on you is more pleasurable. Ii is a combination of merriment and meditation. Similar to festivals at this time of year in other Southeast Asian countries - particularly Thailand - Boun Pimai is celebrated with parades, circle dance (ramwong), traditional Lao folk singing (mor lam) and enthusiastic water-throwing. The religious aspects of the festival are most apparent in Luang Prabang, where water pouring ceremonies are used to Buddha statues are worshiped with water pouring ceremonies. Temple compounds are further decorated with small sand Stupas, offered as merit towards good fortune and health.

Pi Mai The lunar new year begins in mid-April and practically the entire country comes to a halt and celebrates. Houses are cleaned, people put on new clothes and Buddha images are washed with lustral water. In the wats, offerings of fruit and flowers are made at various altars and votive mounds of sand or stone are fashioned in the courtyards. Later the citizens take to the streets and douse one another with water, which is an appropriate activity as April is usually the hottest month of the year. This festival is particularly picturesque in Luang Prabang, where it includes elephant processions.

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MAY

Labour Day 1st May - public holiday

Visakha Puja chanting, religious instruction, and candlelit processions highlight this temple festival in celebration of the birth, enlightenment and death of the Buddha.

Boun Bang Fai (rocket festival) with its origins in pre-Buddhist rain-invoking ceremonies, this festival now coincides with the Lao Visakha Puja celebrations. Large bamboo rockets are built and decorated by monks and carried in procession before being blasted skywards to invite the rains. The higher a rocket goes, the bigger its builder’s ego gets. Designers of failed rockets are thrown in the mud. Parades, songs, dances and partying everywherel. This dramatic festival lasts 2 days and also celebrated in north east Thailand.

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JUNE/LULY

Children's Day (1st June - public holiday)

Khao Phansao (also Khao Watsa, full moon) - Marking the beginning of the traditional three month "rains retreat" during which Buddhist monks are expected to station themselves in a single monastery. At other times of year they are allowed to travel from wat to wat or simply to wander in the countryside, but during the rainy season they forego the wandering so as not to damage fields of rice or other crops. It commences at the full moon in July and continues until the full moon in October and all ends with the Kathin ceremony in October when monks receive gifts.. These are the most usual months for ordination and for men to enter the monkhood for short periods before they marry and is marked by numerous ordination ceremonies. It  (FP)

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AUGUST

 

Haw Khao Padap Din devoted to remembering and paying respect to the dead, it is marked by the macabre ceremony of exhuming previously buried bodies, cleaning the remains, and then cremating them on the night of the full moon. Relatives then present gifts to the monks who have chanted on behalf of those who have passed away.

Boat Racing festival organized in Luang Prabang from Aug 17 to Aug 18This festival includes boat racing on the NamKhane River and a trade fair in Luangprabang city. At the Khao Salak ceremony day, people visit local temples to make offering to the dead as well to share merits making.

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SEPTEMBER

 

Boun Ok Phansa  This is the end of Buddhist Lent and the faithful take offerings to the temple. It is month number 9 in Luang Prabang and month number 11 in Vientiane, and marks the end of the rainy season. Boat races take place on the Mekong River with crews of 50 or more men and women. On the night before the race small decorated rafts are set afloat on the river. (FP)

Boat Racing festival organized in Sept 2 in  Khammouan Boat Racing is held in Sebangfai river. At the same occasion a trade fair of agricultural products, local handicrafts, traditional Lao music and dance performance; at the same time, citizens donate the offering to the dead in to share merits.

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OCTOBER

 

Awk Phansao (Awk Watsa) This celebrates the end of the three-month rains retreat on the day of the full moon. Monks are at last permitted to leave the temple and are presented with robes, alms bowls and other requisites of the renunciative life. One particularly beautiful aspect is Lai Hua Fai. On the eve of Awk Phansaa people gather at the nearest body of water to release dozens of small banana-leaf boats decorated with candles, incense and small flowers, in a celebration similar to the Thai Loy Krathong.

Bun Nam (water festival) A second festival held in association with Awk Phansaa is Bun Nam (water festival) in riverside towns such as Vientiane, Luang Prabang and Savannakhet, the highly competitive Bun Nam boat races (suang heua) are held during the same time as Awk Phansaa. Smaller communities sometimes hold these races on National Day on 2nd December so that residents aren’t saddled with two costly festivals in two months.

Boat Racing festival organized in Oct 2 to Oct 3 in  Vientiane.  The water festival held during k Pansa is spectacular; on the first day at dawn, donations and offerings are made at temples around the city; in the evening, candlelight processions are held around the temples and hundred of colorful flosta decoated with flower; incense and candle are set adrift down the Mekong river in thanksgiving to the river spirit; the next day, a popular and exciting boat racing competition is held on the Mekong.

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NOVEMBER

 

Boun That Luang- Though celebrated at many temples and stupas ( thats in laos )  around the country, this festival is traditionally centred and most enthusiastically and colourfully at That Luang in Vientiane. Fairs, beauty contests, music and fireworks take place throughout the week of the full moon, and end with a candlelight procession (wien thien) around the temple of That Luang.

That Luang Festival ( full moon) This takes place at That Luang in Vientiane. Hundreds of monks assemble to receive alms and floral votives early in the morning on the first day of the festival. There is a colourful procession between Wat Si Muang and Pha That Luang. The celebration lasts a week and includes fireworks and music, culminating in a candlelit curcumabulation (wien thien) of That Luang. (LP)

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DECEMBER

 

Lao Naitional Day This celebrates the 1975 victory of the proletariat over the monarchy with parades, speeches, etc.Streets strewn with national flags and banners, processions, parades. Celebration is mandatory, hence poorer communities postpone some of the traditional Awk Phansaa activities–usually practised roughly a month earlier--until National Day, thus saving themselves considerable expense (much to the detraction of Awk Phansaa)

That Inhang Festival organized in Oct 2 to Oct 3 in  Savannakhet. This festival will ce held on the grounds of the splendid That Inhang stupa, located just outside the city of Savannkakhet; an international trade fair will include exhibitions of tourism products from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam and performance of traditional Lao, Thai and Vietnamese music and dance; the fair will also include a sports competition, complete with foorball, boxing and tennis matchs and local traditions like a drumming competition.

Anonymous wrote:

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easy life indeed.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Hard work is mean you work in the Dirty , very heavy and dangerous work. The native American don't do it and they give such kind of work to immigrant including lao american people and never allow you to sitting in the office and become maneger. OT jod is mean you work for Over Time ( ເຮັດວຽກ ກາຍກຳນົດເວລາ ) ເພືອ່ ຈະໄດ້ເງີນເພີ່ມ ຈົນບໍ່ມີເວລາ ໄດ້ພັກຜ່ອນ ຢູ່ນຳຄອບຄົວ ແລະລູກ  ແຕ່ ປານນັ້ນ ບາງຄົນ ຍັງບໍ່ມີເງີນ ຈ່າຍ ຄ່າເຊົ່າເຮືອນ, ລົດ,  ຄ່ານໍ້າ, ໄຟຟ້າ ແລະອື່ນຯ ອີກ  ແຕ່ຄົນລາວ ຢູ່ລາວ ເຂົາມີທຸກສີ່ງເປັນຂອງຕົນເອງ, ມີເວລາເປັນຂອງຕົນເອງ,  ສະບາຍໃຈ, ມີຕູບຢູ່ ມ ແລະບໍ່, ມີເຂົ້າກີນ ແລະ ບໍ່ຈຳເປັນ ໄປເຮັດວຽກ OT ແລະມເວລາ ໄປເຮັດບຸນ
ລາວ ວຽງຈັນ

All you have it's small brain and dirty and stinking mouth too.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Hard work is mean you work in the Dirty , very heavy and dangerous work. The native American don't do it and they give such kind of work to immigrant including lao american people and never allow you to sitting in the office and become maneger. OT jod is mean you work for Over Time ( ເຮັດວຽກ ກາຍກຳນົດເວລາ ) ເພືອ່ ຈະໄດ້ເງີນເພີ່ມ ຈົນບໍ່ມີເວລາ ໄດ້ພັກຜ່ອນ ຢູ່ນຳຄອບຄົວ ແລະລູກ  ແຕ່ ປານນັ້ນ ບາງຄົນ ຍັງບໍ່ມີເງີນ ຈ່າຍ ຄ່າເຊົ່າເຮືອນ, ລົດ,  ຄ່ານໍ້າ, ໄຟຟ້າ ແລະອື່ນຯ ອີກ  ແຕ່ຄົນລາວ ຢູ່ລາວ ເຂົາມີທຸກສີ່ງເປັນຂອງຕົນເອງ, ມີເວລາເປັນຂອງຕົນເອງ,  ສະບາຍໃຈ, ມີຕູບຢູ່ ມ ແລະບໍ່, ມີເຂົ້າກີນ ແລະ ບໍ່ຈຳເປັນ ໄປເຮັດວຽກ OT ແລະມເວລາ ໄປເຮັດບຸນ .


ລາວ ວຽງຈັນ

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ai seeharhed,

i m ready on free beerlao, at the same time, but next year at the seagames.

Have you ever been back to Laos?  Anyone in Samakomlao care to join me for some beerlao this December?  1st round is on me, after that you buying your own beers. hahhahahhahah  And no politic talks at my drinking table, I dont want to get arrested in Laos.

Please tell me how to do at touktaparty@hotmail.com

Can you tell me how can I apply for this green card and what kind the form you have. I wanted to know for detail because I wanted to stayed in my home land country as long as.

Thanks

Anonymous wrote:

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Hard work is mean you work in the Dirty , very heavy and dangerous work. The native American don't do it and they give such kind of work to immigrant including lao american people and never allow you to sitting in the office and become maneger. OT jod is mean you work for Over Time ( ເຮັດວຽກ ກາຍກຳນົດເວລາ ) ເພືອ່ ຈະໄດ້ເງີນເພີ່ມ ຈົນບໍ່ມີເວລາ ໄດ້ພັກຜ່ອນ ຢູ່ນຳຄອບຄົວ ແລະລູກ  ແຕ່ ປານນັ້ນ ບາງຄົນ ຍັງບໍ່ມີເງີນ ຈ່າຍ ຄ່າເຊົ່າເຮືອນ, ລົດ,  ຄ່ານໍ້າ, ໄຟຟ້າ ແລະອື່ນຯ ອີກ  ແຕ່ຄົນລາວ ຢູ່ລາວ ເຂົາມີທຸກສີ່ງເປັນຂອງຕົນເອງ, ມີເວລາເປັນຂອງຕົນເອງ,  ສະບາຍໃຈ, ມີຕູບຢູ່ ມ ແລະບໍ່, ມີເຂົ້າກີນ ແລະ ບໍ່ຈຳເປັນ ໄປເຮັດວຽກ OT ແລະມເວລາ ໄປເຮັດບຸນ .


ລາວ ວຽງຈັນ

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 i know you like smelly viengchanh. do you eat cow shii t too?