Question regarding CFO seminar/sticker and green card

[Tekniqs 3]

My wife was able to fly out to the US back in 2020 without going to a cfo seminar due to the pandemic. She got some kind of temporary certificate. She has a green card already and currently we already passed in the request to renew (correct word?) her green card. They sent the letter stating her green card has been extended a year while we wait for her actual card. 

She's concerned as before she left, the cfo officer told her when she comes back she has to attend the seminar. The officer she contacted the other day told her she doesn't need to attend BUT needs to go to get the sticker in her passport. She's flying out at the end of this month to drop off her grandma in the Philippines. Will there be any issues when she tries to fly out of the Philippines back to US if she doesn't get the sticker? I've read other posts here staying that since she has a green card already (and not coming here on a cr1 visa), she doesn't need the cfo seminar/sticker. It's just those posts are from 2017. Has anything changed since then?

 

Thanks.

[Palawan 131]

Greencard will over ride CFO sticker

 

 

[nelmagriffin 148]

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Greetings!

If in doubt, contact CFO office. Read the link below.

Reference: ONLINE PRE-DEPARTURE ORIENTATION SEMINAR (PDOS) for Filipino Emigrants to the United States of America (USA) | Commission on Filipinos Overseas (cfo.gov.ph)

 

[top_secret 2,421]

She should be fine but she can also get a new "permanent temporary certificate" emailed to her by filling the form online at.

 

https://cfo.ph/Re-Print_Certificate/

 

or if that one doesn't work then

 

https://cfo.ph/Certificate_ReIssuance_And_Sticker_Request/   (during business hours) 

 

The temporary certificates they issued the last couple of years had an expiration date, but the ones they re-issue now do not expire.

 

There was one woman a couple years ago that said she was a naturalized US Citizen with a US Passport in her possession but was still challenged by an overachieving BI officer for not having a CFO sticker in her newly reissued Philippine passport since she had just reacquired her Philippine citizenship.  IIRC I think she said she made it through after having to escalate the issue to a supervisor.

[Tekniqs 3]

Just to follow up, my wife ended up going to the CFO office to get the sticker. When she was going through the airport, the agent she showed her passport to asked her why she went to the CFO office as she didn't need the sticker any more lol