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Wait a minute, are you saying you got biometrics letter before extension letter @Ani_B?

That's probably going to be the case. USCIS did it many times in the past with marriage cases, asylums etc.

To naturalize, not only you need to have certain amount of days in the US (physical presence), but also continuous residency. If you're away for 6 months, this continuous residency resets, e.g. now you have to wait 3 years (based on marriage) or 5 years (regular) again from the date of return to the US to naturalize.

That's great. She wouldn't have to carry or use passport for domestic travel.

Curious to see the answers for this poll. Of course, this is oversimplified but could give some general idea.

Usually within 2 weeks but can take up to 6 weeks. Validity is usually 24 months from GC expiration date.

Good theory, I like it.

Good moral character

Sure, that's one of the questions in N-400.

The I-90 will get denied if you filed it instead of I-751. No problem with it being denied.

@Rocio0010 @Jorgedig actually, I think I know what it is. Jorgedig filed in 2021 and Rocio in 2022. The first digits encrypt the year and month of filing. The last five (or more?) get reset every year, with first case of the year ending 00000 or something like that. So it's perfectly normal.

That might be some shenanigans / workaround by service center if they have too many applications. Maybe they allocate them not strictly sequentially. But if you search cases around yours, you'll often get the gist of when they're filed. Some of them would show "case received" status and date from 2021. That's how you know what "batch" it is.

You would put LIN2290065000 in CaseTrack. I ran it for LIN2290065000 - LIN2290065499 and see that one case was approved on January 11th. To find the range your service center is working on, search in increments od 500, e.g. LIN2290064500, LIN2290064000, LIN2290063500 etc until you find a range where a lot of I-751s have decisions, approvals, RFEs or denials around today or a week earlier.

Ignore those first four. I'm a WAC and also have those, they're of little use. The most useful is the last 5. Once you know the last five, obscure the last 3 digits for privacy e.g. if case ends with 23456, then range is 23XXX. That's at least how it's easy to track using CaseTrack app.

Was the card sent with I-90 form? Because I-751 is not going to fix it. By the way, this means the extension letter is useless for travel (keep it safe though). She'll have to keep getting ADIT (I-551 stamps) until I-751 is adjudicated.

Please read the earlier messages in the thread.

By the way, here is the thread for January 2023 filers. You may want to read it periodically to see the updates. The next step is your wife may be called for biometrics appointment or it may be waived. It can happen any time within next 6 months.

@LeThanhTon I may dissappoint you, but your wife's journey just begun. This letter extends the validity of your wife's green card by 24 months. She can travel internationally with this original letter and expired green card. Expect her case to take anywhere from 1 to 2 years to be approved. If you search the forum you'll find the threads like this: Many of November 2021 filers are still waiting for their approvals. There's even people who are waiting since 2020 and earlier!

+100 the complicated immigration history (asylum + WAVA) + now potential travel back to country of origin will likely get scrutinized a lot. I wouldn't do it on my own, and would never travel back to that country again, but that's just me. Unless @Zizigragnon you get a large complication of supporting reports from credible sources confirming the situation in the country changed radically since 2016, you're at risk on USCIS doubting your original asylum application. If they doubt asylum, nothing stops them from re-evaluating geniuity of your WAVA application. Everything is possible. So think twice and consult with lawyer to see if it's safe to travel back.

Did any of them seek any immigration benefit? E.g. : - Renewing GC - N-400 - Sponsoring somebody for immigration benefit How did it go?

I haven't checked beyond 23XXX range. That's end of November / start of December 2021. There may be few random approvals beyond 21XXX range, but nothing systematic AFAIK. All the approvals so far in WAC are November 2021 and earlier.

WAC update: only 1 case in lower 21XXX range got approved on Friday, January 13th. Looks like the service center is focusing on cleaning up cases from 19XXX and 20XXX ranges. It appears that they jumped few thousand cases ahead and approved some from 21XXX range (to improve stats?) and then continued working on cases preceding those. 22XXX range is pretty much untouched.

Got it, in this case I would advise keeping asylum case until you get decision on I-485 and GC. IMHO travel back to your country would be a bad idea especially since you're not even LPR yet.

@Zizigragnon congratulations with GC! You're absolutely right, to have your immigration file clean, you should withdraw your asylum petition, but only when you get your physical GC in hand! It's also worth noting, just because you withdraw your asylum doesn't mean USCIS / Asylum office forgotten about it. Travelling back to your country still poses serious risk to your immigration plans in the future. Don't forget, you swore under oath you could not go back to your country due to fears of prosecution or death. The list of countries traveled to may pop up in the future, when filing N-400 for example. And you would have to prove to IO with very detailed and legitimate facts that situation back home changed. It would be best that you never travel back to your home country and meet your family and friends in a third country.

@Alexa.d.123 I believe he can travel with his stamped IR-1/CR-1 visa up to the date on the stamp. Make sure it's a short trip though.