24 Month Extension letter expiration questions

[Hornswoggled 17]

Had a friend visiting last week, and was helping her apply for an ACA insurance policy for 2023. Because she is not a citizen, Healthcare.gov wants to validate her eligibility by having her send in an image of her green card. That's when I noticed that her 24 month extension actually expires next month (December 2022.)

 

What happens when those letters expire? Does USCIS take action automatically (like a new letter?), or must she do something? And if so, what?

 

She's got a complicated ROC case, and I don't think it's going to resolve within the next month.

[OldUser 6,706]

No automatic extensions are sent, as far as I know.

 

Your friend needs to be calling USCIS to get an Infopass appointment at local field office.

They will stamp the passport with I-551, valid for a year.

 

But immigrant needs to be proactive. USCIS is very reluctant to give these stamps out!

[Crazy Cat 41,886]

USCIS does not send new extension letters.  If she requires evidence of LPR status, she needs to call USCIS and request an infopass appointment to receive an ADIT stamp.

[OldUser 6,706]

The phone number to call is 1-800-375-5283

 

Please correct me if I'm wrong @Crazy Cat

[aznhouston 132]

4 hours ago, OldUser said:

No automatic extensions are sent, as far as I know.

 

Your friend needs to be calling USCIS to get an Infopass appointment at local field office.

They will stamp the passport with I-551, valid for a year.

 

But immigrant needs to be proactive. USCIS is very reluctant to give these stamps out!

What do you mean by "reluctant"? 

[OldUser 6,706]

56 minutes ago, aznhouston said:

What do you mean by "reluctant"? 

Not so enthusiastic. The caller has to go through many automated menus, wait forever to get to speak to a real person. And the agent most of the time says there are no appointments available, the field office is busy. This is what I read from other people's posts here on the forum. They keep calling day after day until eventually they get an appointment. Do you have a different experience requesting I-551 stamp appointment? Which field office and when? Thank you.

Edited November 12, 2022 by OldUser

[Hornswoggled 17]

5 hours ago, OldUser said:

But immigrant needs to be proactive. USCIS is very reluctant to give these stamps out!

Yes, I too was going to ask for some elaboration on the "very reluctant" comment.

I would think that any green card holder should be able to show a valid current document in some form, not only for entering the USA, but on demand by law enforcement for example. So why would they be reluctant to provide that if they're not ready to finalize the case yet?

 

Separately, I called a navigator for Healthcare.gov this afternoon and got my answer for them. She said when providing the scanned green card and 24 month extension letter, to also go to the Case Status web page and get a screen shot of that. Anybody with a case still in adjudication is considered legal for that time.

[OldUser 6,706]

@Hornswoggled this is a question USCIS can answer. I cannot answer it, only reporting what I'm reading and hearing.

 

The I-551 stamp shouldn't need to be issued, other than for emergency travel when LPRs lose their green card. Removal of conditions should only take 2-3 months like in good old days. But yet, it takes on average 12 to 24+ months to get approval for I-751.

[Hornswoggled 17]

Thanks for all the good responses, but we just got a much better answer this morning. Her ROC case was approved! The Green Card factory is making her a new 10 year card as I type!

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

23 minutes ago, Hornswoggled said:

Thanks for all the good responses, but we just got a much better answer this morning. Her ROC case was approved! The Green Card factory is making her a new 10 year card as I type!

That's awesome. I wish all of our problems would solve that easy 😁

[OldUser 6,706]

Congratulations @Hornswoggled !!!

When was the I-751 filed? Which service center?

Edited November 12, 2022 by OldUser

[Hornswoggled 17]

4 minutes ago, OldUser said:

Congratulations @Hornswoggled !!!

When was the I-751 filed? Which service center?

To be clear, this is not me/my wife's case; she's a friend from Thailand my wife and I have known for more than a decade, and she immigrated to the States in 2018 on a K-1. I just try to give her some guidance where needed.

I believe the ROC case was filed around September 2020, don't know what service center it went to. It had some complications to it, so I referred her to an immigration attorney. He just described it as "complicated" a few days ago when I was inquiring about the expiring 24 month letter. He also said it was the longest I-751 case he had ever represented. Had no contact with USCIS since filing, so it's a sweet surprise this morning. No RFE requests along the way either, so I guess the attorney knew what he was doing.

[aznhouston 132]

On 11/11/2022 at 6:57 PM, OldUser said:

Not so enthusiastic. The caller has to go through many automated menus, wait forever to get to speak to a real person. And the agent most of the time says there are no appointments available, the field office is busy. This is what I read from other people's posts here on the forum. They keep calling day after day until eventually they get an appointment. Do you have a different experience requesting I-551 stamp appointment? Which field office and when? Thank you.

yes I got it done in Houston. I got robbed, called USCIS the next day to request a call back, they called me back 2 working days later and set me up with an appointment within a week.

So all in all, I got the stamp in a week. This was in February this year, not sure how things have changed since.