Okay I am a bit confused. She has permanent residency about to expire 90 days from today. This week we will file the I-751. BUT, before she gets that other card we would like to travel back to Nicaragua and really will HAVE TO because her passport expires in May of next year. Does she HAVE to get ANOTHER I-131 Advanced parole once her card expires or can she travel with the document saying her stuff is beeing processed and old card (if they dont take it from us when she does her biometrics?

She'll get her receipt notice which serves as an extension of her resident status and specifically authorizes her to work and travel. If you want to play it safe or just feel better about it, you can make an infopass appointment at your local office and try to get them to put the I-551 stamp into her passport. Nani and I did that. We didn't even have to make a case for it. The officer at the local office (Tampa) was very nice about it.

You also may want to check to see if your wife can get her passport through the Nicaraguan Embassy in the US. The Ethiopian Embassy will renew, replace, and issue passports via mail.

Not about to try that. IF we attempt it, it will be more than one trip to Miami and would be faster for her to get citizenship and an UN-expdited U.S. Passport. Daniel Ortega the current president/trying to call himself prime minister/wannabe dictator again. Has already said there will be no ¨cedula¨renewals outside of Nicaragua (Cedula is a national ID card and a must have to Vote a passport cannot take its place which is the STUPIDEST thing¨ He knows if he does that there will be a bunch of people come back just for the elections to vote againts him. SO...... If that is the case with cedulas, passports are next. and anytime they have a passport shortage, outside of Nicaragua is always the LAST to get them again particularly the U.S. now. So no, our safest bet is to go back to Nicaragua and get a passport renewed within 1 day or 1 week. Though their embassy passport service SHOULD be more convenient I do agree and you would think it possible and their web page says it is possible, but when you ask those trying and read the news you find out otherwise.

PS I take back every ugly thing I ever said about our embassy there in Nicaragua. We went 1 year ago brought my daughter without her passport but with our marriage certificate and her birth certificate. Once we finally convinced their goverment to do what they have always typically done when a turista es tonto and does something as dumb as we did, and escort us to our embassy, We got to our embassy they were kinda close to closing, but they took us in like George Bush himself had arrived and gave her (my daughter) a passport on the spot