I-551 AND 10-year green card

[pachita 0]

Hello everybody!

My passport has a bunch of stamps:

1. Processed for I-551, temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence, valid until (blank), Employment authorized

2. AUG 02 2005

3.Class: CRI, Until AUG 03, 2006

My Green Card says: expires 08/12/14, Resident since 08/03/04

I´m a little bit confused. We will have our second anniversary in March this year. Why do I have a 10 year green card. Do I still have to file for Lifting Conditions (I-751)?

Thanks for any advice!

Pacha

[warpedbored 0]

Sounds like they made a mistake on the green card. The fact that the passport is stamped with the correct information shows that somewhere there is a file with the correct information. In my opinion it is not worth the risk to let it slide and hope they don't catch on. If you are supposed to be a conditional resident and you don't file within 90 days prior to the correct expiration of the green card you could be deemed out of status and deported.

Hello everybody!

My passport has a bunch of stamps:

1. Processed for I-551, temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence, valid until (blank), Employment authorized

2. AUG 02 2005

3.Class: CRI, Until AUG 03, 2006

My Green Card says: expires 08/12/14, Resident since 08/03/04

I´m a little bit confused. We will have our second anniversary in March this year. Why do I have a 10 year green card. Do I still have to file for Lifting Conditions (I-751)?

Thanks for any advice!

Pacha

Sounds like they made a mistake on the green card. The fact that the passport is stamped with the correct information shows that somewhere there is a file with the correct information. In my opinion it is not worth the risk to let it slide and hope they don't catch on. If you are supposed to be a conditional resident and you don't file within 90 days prior to the correct expiration of the green card you could be deemed out of status and deported.

Hello everybody!

My passport has a bunch of stamps:

1. Processed for I-551, temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence, valid until (blank), Employment authorized

2. AUG 02 2005

3.Class: CRI, Until AUG 03, 2006

My Green Card says: expires 08/12/14, Resident since 08/03/04

I´m a little bit confused. We will have our second anniversary in March this year. Why do I have a 10 year green card. Do I still have to file for Lifting Conditions (I-751)?

Thanks for any advice!

Pacha

[zyggy 9]

Sounds like they made a mistake on the green card. The fact that the passport is stamped with the correct information shows that somewhere there is a file with the correct information. In my opinion it is not worth the risk to let it slide and hope they don't catch on. If you are supposed to be a conditional resident and you don't file within 90 days prior to the correct expiration of the green card you could be deemed out of status and deported.

Hello everybody!

My passport has a bunch of stamps:

1. Processed for I-551, temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence, valid until (blank), Employment authorized

2. AUG 02 2005

3.Class: CRI, Until AUG 03, 2006

My Green Card says: expires 08/12/14, Resident since 08/03/04

I´m a little bit confused. We will have our second anniversary in March this year. Why do I have a 10 year green card. Do I still have to file for Lifting Conditions (I-751)?

Thanks for any advice!

Pacha

Sounds like they made a mistake on the green card. The fact that the passport is stamped with the correct information shows that somewhere there is a file with the correct information. In my opinion it is not worth the risk to let it slide and hope they don't catch on. If you are supposed to be a conditional resident and you don't file within 90 days prior to the correct expiration of the green card you could be deemed out of status and deported.

Hello everybody!

My passport has a bunch of stamps:

1. Processed for I-551, temporary evidence of lawful admission for permanent residence, valid until (blank), Employment authorized

2. AUG 02 2005

3.Class: CRI, Until AUG 03, 2006

My Green Card says: expires 08/12/14, Resident since 08/03/04

I´m a little bit confused. We will have our second anniversary in March this year. Why do I have a 10 year green card. Do I still have to file for Lifting Conditions (I-751)?

Thanks for any advice!

Pacha

The fact that they made a mistake and gave you a 10-year GC does not excuse you from the requirements of filing an I-751 90 days before your 2nd anniversary as a PR. In your case 90 days before 8/3/06. You'd go after them if they made a mistake to your detriment... how does it change if they make a mistake apparently in your favor.

[pachita 0]

Thanks guys!

Just making sure...

[pachita 0]

well...who would have thought...

I filed my I-755 on June 17, and yesterday I got mail from the USCIS. They returned the whole package (incl. check) with the note that I don't have conditional status and therefore I don't have to file an I-751.

I have no idea why I'm not conditional, since we married in march 04, and I moved here in august 04, but hey... I got it black on white now...

[Sweetgirl 0]

well...who would have thought...

I filed my I-755 on June 17, and yesterday I got mail from the USCIS. They returned the whole package (incl. check) with the note that I don't have conditional status and therefore I don't have to file an I-751.

I have no idea why I'm not conditional, since we married in march 04, and I moved here in august 04, but hey... I got it black on white now...

Condratulations!!!

Good news!

Best wishes

Sincerely.

[Aussielad 37]

you know this i have heard of.....strangly enough, especially in Guam.

Although they say your meant to do the whole 2 year conditional resident thing, upon entry if the POE officer at secondary inspection feels that its a valid relationship, he can waive the 2 year requirement and admit you as an IR-1.

This i have heard of, and what the POE at secondary inspection told us.

weird....but anywhos congratulations by all means!!!!

What POE did you go through???? LAX???

And you'll still have to wait the 2 years 9 months if you decide to become a citizen

[zyggy 9]

you know this i have heard of.....strangly enough, especially in Guam.

Although they say your meant to do the whole 2 year conditional resident thing, upon entry if the POE officer at secondary inspection feels that its a valid relationship, he can waive the 2 year requirement and admit you as an IR-1.

This i have heard of, and what the POE at secondary inspection told us.

weird....but anywhos congratulations by all means!!!!

What POE did you go through???? LAX???

And you'll still have to wait the 2 years 9 months if you decide to become a citizen

This is absolutely positively not true.. THe law does not allow a CBP officer to make this determination. If you are married less than two years when you get your PR status, you are a CR1 and a I-751 must be filed. If you were given, IR1 status in error, you are responsible for fixing it and filing the I-751. If you do not, it could come back to get you when you apply for naturalization.

If they sent the I-751 back to you, go with it and their notice to your USCIS DO and get it rectified...

[meijoe 0]

Well, I think sometimes they messed up their records. This thing happened to me a month after I received my 2 year conditional card in the mail. I got a letter from service center stating that they made error in giving me a 2 year card, instead I should get 10 year card because my marriage was 2 years when I became PR which is not true ofcourse. They said, there is no action necessary on my part and my 10 year card will arrive in the mail soon. I know this is not true so I wrote them back with copy of their letter & Marriage Cert and explained to them that I got the correct PR status (2 year green card). After that I didn't heard from them. So when its time to file my I-751 I did and got 1 year extension. I guess they rectifed my record. Hope you've got the right one.