What to do after Green Card?

[kamas 2]

What do we do after we receive the green card? Is all that info basically summarized in the links below? So, 90 days before the second anniversary of the green card, we will file I-751?

http://www.visajourney.com/faq/k1k2visa-removeconditions.html#7.1

http://www.visajourney.com/content/751guide

[Pitaya 2,577]

Looks good. Enjoy your 21 month vacation from USCIS. Check out my signature for filing date calculator.

Good luck on your immigration journey.

[kamas 2]

Great!

But Is there an error in the filing date calendar: http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/dateCalculator.html

The instructions for filing say: "If you are filing jointly, the I-751 form must be filed within the 90 days just preceding the expiration date on your permanent residence card. This is the date that your conditional residence expires." http://www.visajourney.com/content/751guide

So, if the date the green card was received is 8/25/2014, then, the 2 year anniversary is 8/25/2016. Therefore, the 90 days before that anniversary is 5/27/2016 (note the year is 2016).

The problem: When I put 8/25/2014 in the filing date calendar above, it tells me the earliest accepted filing date is 5/27/2014. But is this correct? Shouldn't it be 5/27/2016. (2016 rather than 2014?)

[Pitaya 2,577]

Great!

But Is there an error in the filing date calendar: http://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/dateCalculator.html

The instructions for filing say: "If you are filing jointly, the I-751 form must be filed within the 90 days just preceding the expiration date on your permanent residence card. This is the date that your conditional residence expires." http://www.visajourney.com/content/751guide

So, if the date the green card was received is 8/25/2014, then, the 2 year anniversary is 8/25/2016. Therefore, the 90 days before that anniversary is 5/27/2016 (note the year is 2016).

The problem: When I put 8/25/2014 in the filing date calendar above, it tells me the earliest accepted filing date is 5/27/2014. But is this correct? Shouldn't it be 5/27/2016. (2016 rather than 2014?)

You are correct. There does seem to be an error in displaying the correct year. Well, what can I say? Did you notice where the link was from....USCIS !!!! Thanks for bringing it to my attention, I will delete it from my signature page until USCIS sees fit to correct it.

[KayDeeCee 4,893]

The calculator is working correctly. You enter the expiration date of your green card, which is 8/25/2016(your 2 year anniversary of being a permanent resident). Your earliest filing date for ROC is 05/27/2016. You file for ROC within the 90 days before your green card expires, not from the date it was issued in 2014.

~ Moved from AOS from Family Based Visas to Removing Conditions - topic is filing ROC, not AOS ~

[tuckin14 58]

I wouldn't "take a vacation" from USCIS.

I would look at the evidence they require and (a) make sure I was generating it all and (b) start saving it all.

They will want to see joint bank accounts etc. - so open them and use them.

If you have utility bills that can't be in both names (most can't), but some in one name and some in the other.

Ask friends and family to send you greeting cards for holidays addressed to both, or birthday cards to one but as before at the same address.

And start saving it and organizing it - it will make things a lot easier in May 2016.

Note that there are no prizes for being the first one to file in your time window. May 28 is fine. Or June 28, or July 28. Anytime as long as you feel confident you'll get some confirmation of receipt in time to resubmit if you have to. (In my case, it was returned for insufficient postage, but we had plenty of time to re-send.)

[Pitaya 2,577]

The calculator is working correctly. You enter the expiration date of your green card, which is 8/25/2016(your 2 year anniversary of being a permanent resident). Your earliest filing date for ROC is 05/27/2016. You file for ROC within the 90 days before your green card expires, not from the date it was issued in 2014.

~ Moved from AOS from Family Based Visas to Removing Conditions - topic is filing ROC, not AOS ~

OIC, that is a little different than previous iterations of the calculator that I have seen. The calculator had been around for awhile, the link disappeared, and now the "improved" version came out with its somewhat cryptic instructions.

Gracias.

[Pitaya 2,577]

I wouldn't "take a vacation" from USCIS.

I would look at the evidence they require and (a) make sure I was generating it all and (b) start saving it all.

They will want to see joint bank accounts etc. - so open them and use them.

If you have utility bills that can't be in both names (most can't), but some in one name and some in the other.

Ask friends and family to send you greeting cards for holidays addressed to both, or birthday cards to one but as before at the same address.

And start saving it and organizing it - it will make things a lot easier in May 2016.

Note that there are no prizes for being the first one to file in your time window. May 28 is fine. Or June 28, or July 28. Anytime as long as you feel confident you'll get some confirmation of receipt in time to resubmit if you have to. (In my case, it was returned for insufficient postage, but we had plenty of time to re-send.)

Perhaps "vacation" is a term that many will take too literally. I agree with your thoughts of keeping an eye out for the types of evidence that is required for the ROC phase of the immigration journey. Though, I will be honest with you, the level of fervor for dealing with evidence-gathering was certainly on the back-burner around my house during those 21 months. My family has been more involved in actual family-building and family-life activities, i.e., enrolling the stepson in college, my wife getting training and starting a new career, going to weddings and funerals, taking family trips. In general, getting them integrated into American life.....changing my house into our home. However, if we came across a piece of potential ROC evidence, I would then basically pitch it into an empty file cabinet drawer, for later review and use. We only starting reviewing and preparing the ROC evidence In June of this year. We mailed the ROC petition within a week of the petition acceptance window, that was according to our plan. The one thing that I started employing early on in the ROC evidence review process was the development of a good cover letter. I then used the cover letter as a checklist of the evidence that I had, and evidence that I still needed to acquire. Our ROC petition package ended up weighing it at about 3.8 pounds. It was delivered in two days by USPS. Since then we have received our I-797 (NOA) dated the day CSC had received the package. CSC initiated an electronic fund transfer two days after that. Now we await the ASC biometric appointment letter. Our ROC preparation was certainly not at the same frenzied pace of as for the initial K1/K2 visa petition, nor the subsequent 2 sets of AOS/EAD/AP packets.

YMMV,

BTW, It helps everyone that uses the forum.

Good luck on your immigration journey.

Edited September 6, 2014 by A&B

[Patrick&Sarah 1]

So long as you maintain updating your address when you move through uscis like you are supposed to they will actually send you a reminder about 30 days before you are able to file the I-751 at the 90 day point.

Good Luck

[AnotherLostSoul 167]

I haven't checked at the VERY moment that calculator but the one I checked on USCIS website about a month ago is the same I've been checking the last two years and it is the exact same version. You just have to put in the expiration date of your GC, not when it was issued as KayDeeCee pointed it out.

just checked out the calculator at USCIS website...it's still the same and it is fine...