Assuming that you don’t have a US domicile, residence, principal place of business, you can still file where you have principal assets for a longer portion of one-hundred-eighty-day period.
You can possibly file in any district where you have majority of US assets. If that district is the Northern District of Georgia, contact my office at 404-768-3509 or at
[email protected] with details. Be aware that although courts sometimes allow telephonic hearings, you may have to come to at least one hearing in person.
28 U.S.C. Section 1408 provides in relevant part that “…a case under title 11 may be commenced in the district court for the district….(1) in which principal assets in the United States, of the person or entity that is the subject of such case have been located for the one hundred and eighty days immediately preceeding such commencement, or for a longer portion of such … period than ….in any other district … .”
For example, if you still have a US bank account, or some assets here, and those US assets are most of your assets, you may be able to file here. Given that you have been gone a short time, you can make a better argument that you remained a Georgia resident and that your absence was temporary.
Again, there's a lot of detail we have to know, but it is at least POSSIBLE you may be able to file here. There is also some possibility you have eligibility to file in the country where you are, but since many other country's laws are different, and it is hard to say how it would affect US creditors, you'd have to ask a lawyer in that country about it.
