Spouse on green card needs to go back home for a year
My wife has had her green card since 2002, and has lived here with me the entire time with trips back home (Japan) ranging from a few weeks to a few months, sometimes once a year, sometimes once every 3 years. She recently got accepted into a school program back home, she left last month and will be gone for a year. We applied for the I-131 and she had her biometrics in Febuary. I checked on the process time and right now it is sitting at 16 months. So she would be back home before its even processed. My question is, can she just fly back to a US Territory (Guam) or even Hawaii in like Sept or Oct for a day then go back? Does that reset the clock or would it basically be the same as if she didn't come back in the country at all since she is basically jumping in then back out again until she finishes next spring? Just trying to see what our options are here since the processing time is so laughably long at this point and I just wasted 650$ on an application fee.