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Green Card Case Pending and Passport Expiring

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tsengch Newbie

tsengch   0

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Can someone please tell me what should i do?

General Info:

After i graduated from college (F-1 Visa, expire on 2014), I married to my boyfriend (USC) and send out all the green card applications on August 15, 2011. I just finished my biometrics on september 28, 2011 and now waiting for further nitice. My passport is going to be expired on January 2012.

And my questions are:

Should i renew my passport while my green card case is pending? or should i wait until i recive my green card?

Thank You

Kathryn41 Grand Master

Kathryn41   3,205

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Topic moved from AOS from a family based visa to AOS from a Work, Student & Tourist Visa as OP is adjusting from a student visa.

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Zebraden Rookie

Zebraden   0

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Filed: AOS (pnd) Country: Trinidad and Tobago
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I'm not sure what the correct answer is, but I waited to file my AOS until after my passport was renewed. I didn't want USCIS to stamp my old expired passport - just in case. Also, I want to be able to travel as soon as I receive my green card. You won't be able to do that on an expired passport.

My embassy gave me back my expired passport, so I wasn't worried about showing up with a different passport at the interview. They also let me keep the old passport while they produced the new one, so you don't run the risk of showing up to the interview with no passport at all. I don't see any drawback to you at least starting the process.

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06/2004 - Met at car event

09/04/2010 - Married

08/01/2011 - Sent in Packet

08/16/2011 - NOA for I485, I130, I765

09/07/2011 - Still no Biometrics letter. Called to request Biometrics appointment.

09/26/2011 - Interview appointment letter received, scheduled for 10/27/2011.

10/03/2011 - Biometrics appointment finally received.

10/07/2011 - Successful Biometrics walk-in completed.

10/07/2011 - Text and email notification, EAD Card/Document production.

10/17/2011 - Received EAD in the mail.

10/27/2011 - Interview - APPROVED on the spot

11/04/2011 - Green card received in the mail

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Can someone please tell me what should i do?

General Info:

After i graduated from college (F-1 Visa, expire on 2014), I married to my boyfriend (USC) and send out all the green card applications on August 15, 2011. I just finished my biometrics on september 28, 2011 and now waiting for further nitice. My passport is going to be expired on January 2012.

And my questions are:

Should i renew my passport while my green card case is pending? or should i wait until i recive my green card?

Thank You

Whatever makes you happy.

Just make sure you have your old passport with you when you go to the interview.

You will need a new passport only after January of next year and only if you plan on traveling internationally.

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.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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tsengch Newbie

tsengch   0

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Thank You all for your suggections!!! I had my interview on 11/16/2011 and was approved on the spot. About 10 days later (11/25/2011) I had recive my GREEB CARD!!! therefore, i had decide to renew my passport when i go back to my country at the end of Dec. Thank You all once again and hope you will got your GC in no time!!!

PS. its less than 100 days from the date they processed my file until the date i got my GC!!!!:)

 
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