Missed replacement of Green Card after 14th birthday

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SH29

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Hi everybody!

A strange situation has formed. I'm 17 now and my parents and I had learnt recently that I was required to replace my GC within 30 days after reaching my 14th birthday. My current GC is valid and expires in May 2010. Actually, we didn’t experience any kind of problems while travelling outside of the USA over the last years and nobody said that there is something wrong with my GC.
As I understood, my form I-90 with the reason g (“I have reached my 14th birthday since my card was issued”) would be rejected even if I’ll pay $270+$80 fee.
So I need an advice about what to do. Should I just wait till my GC will be expiring and file I-90 with the reason f (“My present card has an expiration date and it is expiring”)? In this case can they deny my application for renewing (or can any problems arise) because I didn’t replaced GC when was 14?

In advance thanks for the help.
 
They won't deny the renewal because you applied late.

Hopefully your parents will become citizens before you are 18 (which would make you automatically become a citizen), so you won't have to bother with renewing the card.
 
Jackolantern said:
Hopefully your parents will become citizens before you are 18 (which would make you automatically become a citizen), so you won't have to bother with renewing the card.
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Yeah, I know, thx.
Well, it seems to be OK. But I summed it up and haven’t understood the sense of replacement GC after 14th birthday... if you can just wait till it will expire and then renew it with no worry.
 
SH29 said:
Yeah, I know, thx.
Well, it seems to be OK. But I summed it up and haven’t understood the sense of replacement GC after 14th birthday... if you can just wait till it will expire and then renew it with no worry.
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Renewing it is not a problem, but using the green card without replacing it after your 14th birthday is not a "no worry" situation. They could have delayed or detained you at the port of entry for not having a post-14yr green card, and confiscated the card and told you to renew it ASAP after letting you into the country. You're just lucky that they didn't.

The other issue is that if you renew it within the required time frame, it's only $80 instead of hundreds of dollars.
 
Jackolantern said:
Renewing it is not a problem, but using the green card without replacing it after your 14th birthday is not a "no worry" situation. They could have delayed or detained you at the port of entry for not having a post-14yr green card, and confiscated the card and told you to renew it ASAP after letting you into the country. You're just lucky that they didn't.
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Didn’t know that!

To renew it ASAP – there’s a kind of difficulty here. To renew it, I should file I-90 and write my reason for renewal, right? Then what is the reason? Form doesn’t have “Card was taken away at the border” (knock on wood!), nor does it have “I was such thoughtless that forgot to renew card after my 14th birthday” :)
No reason – no renewal. Then I didn’t comprehend what to do for avoiding situation as you stated above.
 
SH29 said:
As I understood, my form I-90 with the reason g (“I have reached my 14th birthday since my card was issued”) would be rejected even if I’ll pay $270+$80 fee.
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Who told you that? Go ahead and file it with that reason and the $290 + $80.
 
Jackolantern said:
Who told you that? Go ahead and file it with that reason and the $290 + $80.
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Saw it in this discussion:
forums.immigration.com/showthread.php?t=297750
And instruction to I-90 says about replacement within 30 days after reaching 14th birthday. (But has passed much more than 30 days)
 
Make an Infopass appointment and ask how you should apply to replace it without getting rejected.

It seems that once you past the 30 days beyond your 14th birthday, they don't know how to handle your application. Go ahead and apply with $370, then if rejected reapply with $80 with a cover letter explaining that you already tried with $370 and got the wrong fee. Or vice versa and apply with $80 first. Or just say to hell with it and wait until you get citizenship, but don't travel outside the US until then.
 
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Jackolantern said:
Make an Infopass appointment and ask how you should apply to replace it without getting rejected.
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Well, I guess they’d say to file $370 (according to thread I’ve posted above). I think I’d just wait.

Thanks a lot for information!
 
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