Hi All,
I received a green card through marriage. I am coming up on the 2nd anniversary and will apply to remove the conditions on my green card in January 2004 as my card expires in April 2004. My question is that once I apply to remove the conditions, what happens to the green card. Do I have to send the current green card along with the application or does my green card automatically renew? The reason I ask is that the backlog to remove conditions is tremendous i.e. like 2 years and when you don't have the green card in hand returning to the US is a hellish experience as I experienced when I returned to the US from Belgium after a business trip. Since I had still not received my green card, they looked at the stamp on my passport and I sent me to another room for verification. This took almost 2 hours.
So in summation, what happens to my green card as I am waiting for the conditions to be removed as it expires in April 2004.
Thanks for your replies.
I received a green card through marriage. I am coming up on the 2nd anniversary and will apply to remove the conditions on my green card in January 2004 as my card expires in April 2004. My question is that once I apply to remove the conditions, what happens to the green card. Do I have to send the current green card along with the application or does my green card automatically renew? The reason I ask is that the backlog to remove conditions is tremendous i.e. like 2 years and when you don't have the green card in hand returning to the US is a hellish experience as I experienced when I returned to the US from Belgium after a business trip. Since I had still not received my green card, they looked at the stamp on my passport and I sent me to another room for verification. This took almost 2 hours.
So in summation, what happens to my green card as I am waiting for the conditions to be removed as it expires in April 2004.
Thanks for your replies.