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Just wanted to add our experience - my husband and I traveled to Nepal with our two children May 2024 just a few days before his extension letter arrived in the mail. We had a copy of the extension letter from the USCIS online portal with us when we left the US, but he was never asked to present his green card or extension letter. We stayed in Nepal for the summer, during which time his green card expired and we asked a friend to mail us the original extension letter (in case having only a copy would have been a problem). When he came back to the US, he was unable to check in online and the attendant at the airport had to call a supervisor, but he was able to check in without any issues. At immigration in the US, the officer said something like, "This is expired," in reference to his green card. We pointed at the extension letter in the stack of passports he had and he took it without comment. No questions or issues. The airlines and immigration officers seemed familiar with the letter and didn't scrutinize it too closely.