When can we start Lifting Conditions?

[Tee and Megan 10]

Hi all!

My husband's conditional green card expires on September 2017; and we were wondering how early is too early to apply for lifting conditions. We have some big life changes coming up (A big move and thinking about when we will start a family!) so even though that seems terribly far in the future, we want to be proactive.

I've read in some places we can apply as early as 6 months before this card expires; but on VJ it says 90 days? Any advice on this?

Thanks everyone!! Happy Spring!

Megan

[aleful 1,905]

hi

90 days before the card expires is the earliest you can file, no sooner than that

you can read the instructions on the i751 form, 90 days

whoever said 6 months was wrong, it will be denied if you send it sooner than 90 days prior to the expiration of the 2 year GC

Edited March 13, 2016 by aleful

[Pitaya 2,577]

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Be sure to read the Form I-751 instructions for info on filing requirements (BTW, the VJ Guides say essentially the same thing): https://www.uscis.gov/i-751

Good luck on your immigration journey.

[NickD 203]

Ha, using the date the conditional card expired as day one, counted 89 days backwards for the date we signed the I-751 and mailed it off. But feel with their processing times, should be at least a year, but doesn't make a bit of difference as to how you feel.

We got married a little over two years after we met, all kinds of complications, wife sure didn't want to leave her daughter behind, and I agreed to this, her ex left the country and had to trace him down to get permission.

We covered all this during our AOS, was a long interview, selling property, changing schools, quitting a high paying job, moving expenses, or private life was an open book. Was shocked when I heard only a conditional card was to be issued, something to do with fraud, and we are guilty of this untile we prove ourselves innocent.

Was told to get that I-751 and N-400 forms and read those, with the I-751 was 21 months of collecting evidence. With the N-400, learned we had to record all of our trips. Ha, can't remember what we did yesterday let alone a trip we made three years ago.

And reading the I-751, if we did break up for some reason, with everything my wife did to leave her home country plus her daughter, would be an extreme circumstance for them to go back, had nothing left in their home country. So could have stayed on that basis alone. Or if my wife asked me a question that I didn't answer, ignoring is also considered a form of abuse.

Immigration was greatly limited in 1986, only way to come here was with marriage, and the INS was very lax in their AOS with fraud. But this wasn't enough, came out with the I-751 in 1988.

Wouldn't be that bad if they issued that ten year card within that 90 day period with a ton of evidence, but took well over 15 months, one year extension also expired. And trying to explain to the DMV and an employer what a one year extension was, even worse, an I-551 stamp was really troubling. Practically everybody hasn't even heard of the USCIS let alone their way of conducting themselves and what they put us through.

But we have no choice, and extremely difficult to be nice especially of you are a vet of a foreign war, but you have to be very nice. Most of the interviewers we met were immigrants themselves and would think they would be very understanding. Ha, they couldn't even speak good English.

[Tee and Megan 10]

Ha, using the date the conditional card expired as day one, counted 89 days backwards for the date we signed the I-751 and mailed it off. But feel with their processing times, should be at least a year, but doesn't make a bit of difference as to how you feel.

We got married a little over two years after we met, all kinds of complications, wife sure didn't want to leave her daughter behind, and I agreed to this, her ex left the country and had to trace him down to get permission.

We covered all this during our AOS, was a long interview, selling property, changing schools, quitting a high paying job, moving expenses, or private life was an open book. Was shocked when I heard only a conditional card was to be issued, something to do with fraud, and we are guilty of this untile we prove ourselves innocent.

Was told to get that I-751 and N-400 forms and read those, with the I-751 was 21 months of collecting evidence. With the N-400, learned we had to record all of our trips. Ha, can't remember what we did yesterday let alone a trip we made three years ago.

And reading the I-751, if we did break up for some reason, with everything my wife did to leave her home country plus her daughter, would be an extreme circumstance for them to go back, had nothing left in their home country. So could have stayed on that basis alone. Or if my wife asked me a question that I didn't answer, ignoring is also considered a form of abuse.

Immigration was greatly limited in 1986, only way to come here was with marriage, and the INS was very lax in their AOS with fraud. But this wasn't enough, came out with the I-751 in 1988.

Wouldn't be that bad if they issued that ten year card within that 90 day period with a ton of evidence, but took well over 15 months, one year extension also expired. And trying to explain to the DMV and an employer what a one year extension was, even worse, an I-551 stamp was really troubling. Practically everybody hasn't even heard of the USCIS let alone their way of conducting themselves and what they put us through.

But we have no choice, and extremely difficult to be nice especially of you are a vet of a foreign war, but you have to be very nice. Most of the interviewers we met were immigrants themselves and would think they would be very understanding. Ha, they couldn't even speak good English.

NickD,

I'm sorry your process was so stressful! Ours was too at times. I wish things moved smoother!! Guess we just have to play the system for now; but pray for a better future for immigration in the US. Blessings and thanks for sharing your story!

[NikLR 13,232]

OH NickD. He enjoys telling "war stories."