Green Card

[abaid54 0]

My wife has come last october. When she came her k-3 visa was on her passport with expiry date of 16apr2009. But in the while at POE the officer wrote on her passport entry till oct 22, 2010. and when she recieved her green card it also said oct 22, 2010.

So my question is which one should i go by, the green card or the visa on the passport?

I dont want any complications afterwards...

thanx for any help

[milimelo 4,568]

Since she has a green card you go by what the green card says.

[BePatience 0]

My wife has come last october. When she came her k-3 visa was on her passport with expiry date of 16apr2009. But in the while at POE the officer wrote on her passport entry till oct 22, 2010. and when she recieved her green card it also said oct 22, 2010.

So my question is which one should i go by, the green card or the visa on the passport?

I dont want any complications afterwards...

thanx for any help

Go by GC!!!!

[lucyrich 20]

They're different dates for different purposes.

The visa is permission to apply to enter the US. Its expiration date was the last date she could have used the visa to enter the US. But she entered before her visa expired, so everything is ok, and you can forget about that date.

Now that she has a green card, she doesn't need her visa to enter the US. She uses her green card (plus passport). Her green card should have an expiration date of two years after conditional LPR status was granted.

One thing doesn't make sense, though. If she came in on a K-3 visa, she shouldn't have been granted a green card right away. She should have been required to go through adjustment of status, or else to go abroad and get a CR-1 visa and re-enter using the CR-1 visa. Regardless of how she got conditional LPR status, it should have an expiration date two years after it was granted. But on the day she entered with a K-3 visa, the officer had no way of knowing when her conditional LPR status would be granted, so he shouldn't have had any way of knowing to write Oct 22, 2010 on her passport stamp. I'm guessing she got conditional LPR status (either via a CR-1 visa or adjustment of status) on October 22, 2008, and the writing on the passport was made on this date.

[Jose Rizal 1]

One thing doesn't make sense, though. If she came in on a K-3 visa, she shouldn't have been granted a green card right away. She should have been required to go through adjustment of status, or else to go abroad and get a CR-1 visa and re-enter using the CR-1 visa. Regardless of how she got conditional LPR status, it should have an expiration date two years after it was granted. But on the day she entered with a K-3 visa, the officer had no way of knowing when her conditional LPR status would be granted, so he shouldn't have had any way of knowing to write Oct 22, 2010 on her passport stamp. I'm guessing she got conditional LPR status (either via a CR-1 visa or adjustment of status) on October 22, 2008, and the writing on the passport was made on this date.

Some people are just lucky. This isn't the first time I've heard of something like this. Be happy for them.

[abaid54 0]

thanx for all the help... btw...she did come on the CR1 visa i forgot to mention that...

[ricebird 0]

thanx for all the help... btw...she did come on the CR1 visa i forgot to mention that...

And don't forget she needs to file for I-751 application (Removing of Condition to Residency) 90 days before October 22, 2010. Start gathering documents and evidence now to support the application .