How Important is the Green Card Category?

[jsnearline]

My wife just got her green card last night. She adjusted from a K-1, so I would have thought the green card category would have been listed as CF1. Instead, the category on the card is CR6.

Should we be worried about this at all? Or is this just a matter of me knowing a little too much about immigration stuff for my own good?

[ari4u]

Originally Posted by jsnearline

My wife just got her green card last night. She adjusted from a K-1, so I would have thought the green card category would have been listed as CF1. Instead, the category on the card is CR6.

Should we be worried about this at all? Or is this just a matter of me knowing a little too much about immigration stuff for my own good?

CR-6 means she adjusted her status within the US, is a conditional resident and her GC is valid only for 2 years.

[cherr1980]

Remember that you have to remove the conditions of the green card 90 days before your second anniversary, is like that Ari4u? just correct me if I am wrong...

[jsnearline]

I know a CR-6 is a conditional GC, but I thought CF1 was the conditional category for K1 adjustees.

The categories are close enough to each other that I suppose I shouldn't worry about it.

[Mona25]

I suppose that at the time of the interview you had less than 2 years of marriage, that gives her this category CR-6.
About the renewal of the green card you have to file another application I-751, 90 days before the card expiration date no before your second anniversary.
Keep that in mind.
I hope this help you!

[Pinturicchio]

I-751 should be filed during the 90 days immediately preceding the expiration date of the conditional resident card, not necessarily 90 days before

One could file just two to three days before that date and still be good.

[Pinturicchio]

Originally Posted by jsnearline

My wife just got her green card last night. She adjusted from a K-1, so I would have thought the green card category would have been listed as CF1. Instead, the category on the card is CR6.

Should we be worried about this at all? Or is this just a matter of me knowing a little too much about immigration stuff for my own good?

You have every reason to wonder why the category on the card is CR6, actually. If your wife entered the US on a K-1 nonimmigrant visa, before you eventually got married and applied for adjustment of status, the category should read CF-1.

However, If she had entered as your spouse on a K-3 visa, then the category would correctly be CR-6.

[jsnearline]

Thanks. She should have CF1, not CR6. Is this something we need to get them to correct now or does it really matter much? The definitions of the categories are quite similar. The only difference I can think of is that a CR6 would require an 1-130 petition, but a CF1 requires an I-129F petition. If at a later stage someone reviews the file, they would see that the green card category does not match what was in the file. The question is would they just correct it, or would they penalize the applicant for failing to have it fixed?

What average green card holder wuold know the difference between CF1 and CR6 anyway? My wife wouldn't have known if I hadn't bothered to look it up online.