3 year permanent residence card expiring how to renew?

[amaranthseeds 0]

Hi. I have a 3 year permanent residence card that will expire in a year. and I'm wondering about the process of renewing it/ is it called removing conditional terms? So that I can continue living here. Is anyone familiar with the process and what it entails? Does it require another interview? I got a lawyer for the initial residency stuff. Is that recommended for this?

Thanks

Amara

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

The US doesn't have a 3-year residence card. Are you talking about a US card?

[Eric-Pris 1,606]

You must be talking about a 2-year conditional greencard.

If so, follow these steps: http://www.visajourney.com/content/renewing-a-green-card

[Bin deeq 10]

3-year residence card?!!!!!

[amaranthseeds 0]

Must be a 2 year conditional then! Thanks

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from What Visa Do I Need - Family Based Immigration to Removing Conditions on Residency Discussion.

[flora01 37]

Must be a 2 year conditional then! Thanks

Please look at the issue and expiration date on card and state confirmly what it is,so that somebody could guide

you about ROC that when to apply for it and with what docs.

[NickD 203]

After waiting for 14 months for our first AOS meeting, was a bit shocked after all this, wife only received a two year conditional card, wasn't married quite two years yet.

So I asked what was next? Was told we had to file an I-751 and should be filed 90 days before her green card expired for my wife. Then a year later, she could file for the N-400. I wrote these form numbers down and downloaded them the next day.

This is when I learned we needed a ton of evidence, so I put a reminder on our refrigerator door that stayed there for 21 months. And during that time, started gathering evidence. Also read the required evidence for the N-400, was about the same so made two folders. One labeled the I-751 the other the N-400. If we made a trip, typed that information in.

So when the time came, we were well prepared. This went on for three years, had to detrain myself, when she finally received her US citizenship, didn't have to do this anymore. Wife commented after her citizenship interview, she saw her file, said it was over 3" thick. Kind of laughed about this paper reduction act.

Trying to remember what you did three years ago, can be very difficult.

[amaranthseeds 0]

Thanks, nickd. And, flora01 my green card expires on October 26/2014. It is a 2 year after all, I was confused.

It says permanent resident, and under category it says CR6.

Any advice about how to go ahead would be great- peoples experiences, if they used lawyers or not, and how much evidence they needed,

Amara

[flora01 37]

Thanks, nickd. And, flora01 my green card expires on October 26/2014. It is a 2 year after all, I was confused.

It says permanent resident, and under category it says CR6.

Any advice about how to go ahead would be great- peoples experiences, if they used lawyers or not, and how much evidence they needed,

Amara

Subtract 90 from 26th oct,on that date your window to file ROC opens.You can file any time in that,its better to file earliest.

You can not file before that,they will return it back to you.

Go through the forums regarding 'documents required to file for ROC'.

Good luck!

Edited April 27, 2014 by flora01

[NickD 203]

Make it 88 days from the date your conditional green card expires, also the date you signed and mailed it. If still married to your same spouse, its a joint venture for both of you. Since I was the sponsoring US citizen, I did most of the work due to somewhat of a language barrier my wife had.

While we did have access to an excellent immigration attorney, he recommended we do this ourselves.

http://www.uscis.gov/i-751

Has all the information we need, for me, since we already went through the AOS process, and using Adobe Acrobat Pro, was mostly a copy and paste operation I already had all those forms on my computer. This shows consistency in the forms, we had spend a lot of time in the AOS process making sure everything was correct.

Ha, since I had my home and several vehicles in my name, was time I added my wife to these titles, we already had joint bank accounts, joint tax returns, health and life insurance. Was no big deal, already had that I-864 hanging on my head, and since we live in Wisconsin with our divorce laws and were married for over three years, half of what I had was hers anyway. Besides this, she is a keeper.

The real big disappointed was after all this, all she got was a crazy one year extension, she had to carry that along with her expired green card. Still see the service centers are really dragging this process out. Not only this, but that one year extension was about to expire so we had to drive 450 miles to get an I-551 stamp in her foreign passport book. Its up to us to keep ourselves legal.

If there was any tension in our marriage, was all caused by the USCIS.