left US before Conditions lifted

[DDT 65]

What is the procedure? I managed to get my wife safely immigrated into the USA 2008 but just during the Conditions of Residency removal, in 2010, we left the USA. She never made it to her Biometrics Interview before leaving. It's been 4 and a half years since she was in the US as we have been in living abroad in two other countries during that time. We were back in Russia where she first emmigrated from and in Australia. So, now we are thinking it is time to settle down back in the USA.

I am assuming her Green Card is useless by now. The last correspondance I had with US Immi was them telling her that she had missed her Biometrics appointment and to make another within a certain time and me writing back saying that we were out of the country and can't make it. I never heard back from them. They have written but I never saw it.

So, if I want to bring her back to the US where do I start from. Who do I write to? Can I start the process from where we left off?

If I have to start at the beginning will it be easier for us since she has already been granted a Green Card and have been married now for even longer which is now 7 1/2 years?

We are in Australia right now. Would it make any difference or be better if we apply while still in Australia.... because she may have to go back to Russia for a bit while I return to the USA?
So will it make any difference which country we are in when I apply for her?

If it's all the same, I may just return to USA alone and apply from there while she returns to Russia. That way I can be settled in and working and maybe it will look better.

[Darnell 8,478]

ya, sorry, gotta start over.

suggest you file an I-130 with Q22 stating the embassy name in russia for the interview.

you could file it now, knowing it'll take about a year from when you file till she has an interview in Russia.

Good News? Get a 10 year card.

Unsure about the clock on citizenship, though.

[DDT 65]

OK ...so it's about a years wait to get her to the USA now? It only took about 5 months last time in 2008. I may have to go back to Russia for awhile myself then if that's the case. Also, are you saying that because we have been married long enough that she will get a 10 year Green Card this time?

[tuckin14 58]

If you have been married at least two years at the time the green card is issued, you are not subject to conditions on permanent residency.

[Darnell 8,478]

OK ...so it's about a years wait to get her to the USA now? It only took about 5 months last time in 2008. I may have to go back to Russia for awhile myself then if that's the case. Also, are you saying that because we have been married long enough that she will get a 10 year Green Card this time?

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