Pending Lifting Conditions Application....

[K and V 0]

I am about to send in my paperwork for Lifting conditions...

My question is with the timeline for approval being 1 year and 1 month.....can i apply for citizenship before my 10 year GC is approved?

Does the 90 days before expiration rule apply to citizenship application as well?

[YuAndDan 153]

YES You can file N-400 within 90 days of 3 years of LPR status, (Or 1 year after you filed the I-751).

This tends to jumpstart the I-751 if it has not been approved, I-751 needs to be approved before they can start working on the N-400.

Moving this to citizenship forum.

[K and V 0]

YES You can file N-400 within 90 days of 3 years of LPR status, (Or 1 year after you filed the I-751).

This tends to jumpstart the I-751 if it has not been approved, I-751 needs to be approved before they can start working on the N-400.

Moving this to citizenship forum.

Thanks... I wasnt sure what forum to ask?!

[NickD 203]

Is the USCIS still dragging their feet on the I-751? That was crazy, we sent ours in precisely 90 days before her condition card expired only to get that one year extension notice. So she was walking around for eleven long months with an expired green card and a copy of that extension. Only brought the original along when we traveled, that is a valuable piece of paper! You have to be a LPR to apply and she had both her expired card AND that one year extension piece of paper, so we copied both of those and sent those in for the green card with her N-400 application, they accepted it. Was like six weeks before her interview, she finally received her ten year card, made a copy of that so she could hand that to her IO and of course she had her ten year card. But not for long, received her USC a month later only letting her keep that card we waited and stressed for ten weeks. Ha, we called that a ten week card instead of a ten year card. But she did receive it three weeks before her one year extension expired, we were all set to make an infopass appointment

I did read about cases where some people never received their ten year card, if my wife's interview was six weeks earlier, she wouldn't have received her ten year card.

It was those I-751 delays that really prompted us to apply for USC at the earliest possible date.