A method, device, and computer-readable medium provide for receiving, from an first presence server at a proxy presence device, a presence status request for presence information associated with a user device in a home carrier network; sending the presence status request to a second presence server in the home carrier network; receiving the presence status of the user device and storing the presence status of the user device in an associated database; sending presence status to the first presence server; receiving at least one subsequent request for the presence status of the user device; and sending the presence status.