Hey you all,
I just tried to find some information about when to apply for citizenship if I have a conditional green card, I know that I have to wait first after removing the conditions. But can you apply just 1 year after you send the application to remove the conditional GC or is it that you will apply 3 years after the removed conditons GC arrived. It's so confusing. Specially for people who enter on K-1 Visa. I can't find any information about that.

Thanks

If married to a US citizen you can apply 90 days before the 3 year anniversary of the issue date on your original conditional green-card.

USCIS has a very good guide:

A Guide to Naturalization

http://www.uscis.gov/files/article/M-476.pdf

What's confusing?

You can remove conditions at 2 years after PR status (look for the date on your Green Card).

You can become a citizen no earlier than 3 years after PR status is granted.

Two separate applications, one a year after the other.

What is the difference between the conditional permanent resident card and the 10 year PR. I think this is the one that you have to have for 3 years not the conditional one.

Any comments?
Thanks

Please read the pinned post at the top of this forum. It has every link you need and explains it all in plain language.

Note my timline in my signature; my husband naturalized last summer after 3 years as a Permenant Resident. He started with conditions.

I andestand, but maybe that's because you filed I-130 but for me, I filed the I-129 Fiance visa. So maybe it's different. That's why I am asking.

You can file citizenship after 3 yrs as permanent resident (2 yrs of conditional + 1 year of unconditional of your 10 yrs GC)

OK, let's back up.

You become a Permanent Resident when your AOS is approved. If you were married for less than 2 years at that time, your PR status has conditions on it.
Two years from the date of your PR status (or, when your Green Card expires), you file I-751 to remove the conditions.

During that two years you are still a Permanent Resident. I highly recommend that you read the big links in my signature so you understand all about being a PR. It says there very plainly that a PR with conditions is the same as a PR.

Being married to a USC, you get a special waiver to apply for US citizenship earlier than other PRs. You can become a US citizen after being a PR for 3 years instead of 5.
Your time as a PR with conditions (where you are the same as an LPR) counts toward this time.

The Guide to Naturalization also spells this out in plain language.

This is nothing to do with I-130 vs K-1, it is all about how long since your PR status was approved. This date is noted on the front of your Green Card.

Bonheur,

The difference between being a conditional permanent resident and a permanent resident without conditions is that the conditional PR must apply to remove the condition 2 years after obtaining PR status. If they don not apply to remove the condition they lose the PR status.

What makes you think that those 2 years of being a conditional PR do not count towards the time as a PR required for citizenship?

Yodrak