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So ten years from now (or 9 years 6 months from now) I will have to renew my ten year green card (if I don't become a citizen). But I'm a bit confused. Reading some guides it seems that along with the application fee a biometrics fee is also included. I thought that biometrics wasn't needed again, that you just had to include your photo with the application. Could someone please shed some light on this! Thank you very much.

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So ten years from now (or 9 years 6 months from now) I will have to renew my ten year green card (if I don't become a citizen). But I'm a bit confused. Reading some guides it seems that along with the application fee a biometrics fee is also included. I thought that biometrics wasn't needed again, that you just had to include your photo with the application. Could someone please shed some light on this! Thank you very much.

When you renew the 10 year card using the form I-90 you will be required to redo biometrics as well if you have not had biometrics done in the last 15 months. The biometrics confirm that you are indeed the person you say you are but need to be redone if more than 15 months have passed since the last biometrics.

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Unless you become a USC, you'll be paying to USCIS until the day you die, and you'll have to fear that one day, with one stroke of a pen, they'll change the rules of the game for foreigners living in "their" country.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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So ten years from now (or 9 years 6 months from now) I will have to renew my ten year green card (if I don't become a citizen). But I'm a bit confused. Reading some guides it seems that along with the application fee a biometrics fee is also included. I thought that biometrics wasn't needed again, that you just had to include your photo with the application. Could someone please shed some light on this! Thank you very much.

Biometrics are required - and if you keep your 10 year GC, then you need to be careful about your travel. When, and if you decide to become a citizen, then USCIS will look back and see if you have traveled in the past 3 or 5 years more than 6 months, and they could easily start counting again, which means you have to wait more to get naturalized.

The other thing to think about is the fact that these prices will increase, if I were you, I would just apply for natz before that happens. I can apply by the end of this year and I am praying the prices don't go up.

Things to think about....

N-400 Naturalization Timeline

06/28/11 .. Mailed N-400 package via Priority mail with delivery confirmation

06/30/11 .. Package Delivered to Dallas Lockbox

07/06/11 .. Received e-mail notification of application acceptance

07/06/11 .. Check cashed

07/08/11 .. Received NOA letter

07/29/11 .. Received text/e-mail for biometrics notice

08/03/11 .. Received Biometrics letter - scheduled for 8/24/11

08/04/11 .. Walk-in finger prints done.

08/08/11 .. Received text/e-mail: Placed in line for interview scheduling

09/12/11 .. Received Yellow letter dated 9/7/11

09/13/11 .. Received text/e-mail: Interview scheduled

09/16/11 .. Received interview letter

10/19/11 .. Interview - PASSED

10/20/11 .. Received text/email: Oath scheduled

10/22/11 .. Received OATH letter

11/09/11 .. Oath ceremony

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