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Hi my name is Tom married to a us veteran and we have a soon to be 3y old dual citizenship boy we own a house together and I have worked ever since I was able to I recently filled my I-751 removal of condition with around 40 piece's of evidence so to my shock I got my package back with the check still in it saying it was rejected due to mailing address now looking online can't find anything calling and emailing no success so please help me

Hello, i filed the i-751 and got the rfe on july 1 2022. I submitted the RFE with 3 pound evidence on 9/30/2022. It was delivered to PO box at local post office nearby USCIS on Oct. 1st, 2022. The status is still same as “available to pick up “even though it is October 5, 2022. i contacted USPS local office, and no matter what i need to wait someone pick up the my item in the post office. My document is too think to put in po box and they put my doc on the counter I guess. Do you guys think officer didnt realize my package or their pick up process is always late like this? can you guys give me idea what do i do. my due date on RFE is oct 11, 2022. i heard that all of RFE is extended for 60 days the date on the rfe document. I am worried it was not delivered on time. Please help me!

Hello, I have a question about utilities. In our particular situation, we added the petitioner's name rather late to the utility bill accounts and so we only have bills from this year's with both the spouse's and petitioner's names but not those from previous years. Those from previous years only have the spouse's name on them. Should we include these bills from previous years regardless in our I-751 packet? Or is it better to leave the bills from prior years out and just write up an explanation as to why they were left out? Thanks

Hi, my husband applied for I-751 last year and received a 24month extension letter. My question is: is he eligible to apply for citizenship this August? Green card expired on Nov 2021. So he’ll be 3 years living here this year. Thank you!

Team, While attempting to update my timeline on my frofile it is becoming more apparent that the names used on this site for actions are not common enough for the basic user to match with the status of their case or form being used. I am looking for a simple guide on site function and how to update/maintain my profile. Another option would be for each section in the timeline check list to be in the order of processing and match the same order for the edit function. My goal is to update the status of my I-751 on my profile and I do not have any clue base on the selectable options in the edit profile page. I know I sent my package to Arizona but am not seeing that as an option.

Okay, so my wife is closing in on her green card expiring in November. We knew that action was needed, so we went ahead renewed the green card, which costs $535.. We've already gone to the biometrics and it should be here in a couple of months. A couple of weeks ago we received a call to action to fill out the I-751, which is to remove conditions... Now I feel like we should of waited to receive this call to action because the I-751 costs $595... What I fear is that we applied to renew her green card, when we should of waited to receive a call to action and remove the conditions... Can someone verify that we made a mistake? And can we rectify the mistake by contacting USCIS with the mix up? Or is the I-90 & I-751 necessary to stay in the country... Anything information would help. Thank you!

I put my I-751 packet in the mail this week and realized last night that I forgot to include a copy of my conditional green card. I am still beating myself up about it. We put the form and all supporting documents together and went over everything so many times, and somehow still missed one of the most important items. Should I wait for the RFE? Should I send it in now with another cover letter? So afraid that they will reject it altogether and we will lose the application fee.

Hi! I'm way ahead for ROC at the moment, I'm not due until October or so next year but I'd like to get ahead. I've already begun collecting some documents but at this moment would like some samples of what people have sent for their ROC as samples of showing co-mingling in their lives. This is what I have/will have collected for the package so far. -Joint bank accounts ✅ -Joint tax filing ✅ -Joint car insurance ✅ - Health insurance (not sure how to show this, but we're military so my coverage is under his name as sponsor) ✅ - Photos showing time spent together with family/together ✅ - Flight tickets together (Haven't flown a lot but at least 1 so far) ✅ - Joint bills with our names on them (water, electric, gas) ✅ - Possibly join credit cards (I am listed as the 2ndary user of ones he owns- don't have one of my own as of yet)✅ I've seen people mentioned affidavits may be included but is it required? I feel as though the proof above seems sufficient but if we were to need affidavits who would be best to obtain them from? Family members, friends, coworkers? Is there anything else anyone would recommend to add to the list? Not sure if applicable but I'm currently not working, so no paystubs or anything of my own. When/if I do find a job, would any kind of employment proof be necessary? I know it is more of a focus to show that the marriage is continuous and maintained and co-mingling, so I wasn't sure if my employment status mattered here. No children, we do have a pet though - and both our names are on the adoption paperwork. Thanks in advance! Also, do ROCs get their interview waivered if they had one for their conditional GC? I remember by IO telling me it may/may not be waived.

Choose... Hi all, Please suggest. I was married and filed JOINT petition for I-751 ROC in October 2021 . But my wife and I didn't get along and we filed for divorce in Feb 2022. Divorce hearing happen on April 2022 and divorce was finalized. I am expecting to receive the Divorce Decree by the end of August 31st, 2022. Now I want to convert my Joint I-751 to WAIVER based application. I am planning to send the I-751 waiver request letter to USCIS. I believe they will issue the RFE and I will have the Divorce decree in hand by that time. Does anyone has the I-751 Waiver Letter format or what should be the content of the letter or what information should be included in it? Married with USC: April 4, 2020 Conditional GC approved after Interview: Dec 5 2020 JOINT application for I-751 ROC filed : Sept , 2021 Biometrics applied : Oct, 2021 Divorce hearing : April 2022 Expected date of receiving Divorce Decree: August 31, 2022

Hello everyone, My wife's i-751 ROC was filed on Sept 13, 2021 and it was approved two weeks ago on 6/10/2022 (Card in production update). On 6/15/2022, we received I-797 Notice of Action in the mail (Approval of request to remove the conditions on your permanent resident status). According USCIS case tracker, the card was picked up on 6/16/2022 by USPS. We were provided USPS priority mail tracking. Due to Juneteenth holiday, it showed delivery date of 6/21. We did not receive the card. USPS online tracking status shows "In Transit, Arriving late". We have contacted USPS and opened up a case. They contacted us yesterday, confirming the shipment made it to Los Angeles International Distribution Center and no update since then. We get priority mail packages quite a bit and noticed that all of our packages usually go to Los Angeles Network Distribution Center (which is a different distribution center that the one our card went to). USPS indicated all packages ship from distribution center to local post office in a truck and "There is nobody at the distribution center to call to acquire about this tracking". Normally we would wait for a few weeks before getting concerned and/or contacting USCIS. However, we have a pending trip to UK in a few weeks. My wife still has the original expired 2 year GC and 24 months extension (expires in Dec 2023) plus the new I-797 NOA indicating final approval and removal of condition. I know we can use expired GC and 24 months extension letter to board the plane back to US. My question is....would there be an issue upon arrival in the US with CBP if we do NOT have 10 year GC by that time? We are planning to have the following documents when arriving back in US: Wife's UK Passport Expired 2 year GC 24 Months extension I-797 NOA showing final approval and conditions being removed Thank you in advance for your responses.

My husband was denied boarding yesterday at Heathrow Airport in the UK because of an expired Green Card that we thought he could travel on because of having an I-797 notice of Action for the I-751. He went back for 14 days to help with family. I am not with him. We have been married almost 5 years and have been waiting on the green card conditions to be removed. We got a requests for additional evidence in January 2022. Submitted all documentation on February 10th 2022. We've received four transfer notices and the latest is an email saying they are sending out a notice for date of interview. We know understand that we should have applied for an Info Pass. Everyone we've talked to at the airport said he should go to the US Embassy. He did that yesterday and was told they can't help him unless his been out of the country for more than a year. Doe anyone know what steps need to be taken. I spoke briefly to an attorney that said, gosh I hope he doesn't have to go through the whole visa process again!! (this forum was so valuable during our K1 visa process, that I thought to reach out to the brain power here!)

Hello everyone, I am seeking some advice for my spouse and I. My spouse is a Japanese citizen holding a permanent residency card. We completed our i-130 and my spouse was granted her residency here in the United States 2-years ago. It is now time for us to submit a i-751 to remove conditions on her residency. Previously when we went through the i-130 process, while I was stationed in Japan, we answered "yes" on her i-130 in reference to "have you ever committed a crime...etc." This was also documented in her ds-260 that we were required to submit. My spouse was able to get her criminal record pulled from the local police office where we filed, but it was sealed, so we do not know if there is in fact any record of her crime. When she was 14 years old she was caught shoplifting, taken to the police station and questioned, then later released to her mother. To her knowledge, she never needed to pay a fine, nor was she charged for the crime. When we spoke to the counselor at her interview for her i-130, they accepted the documents of her criminal history and she was accepted. From my interpretation, in the directions (i-751) it states that she is required to provide documentation (again) on the incident. The document would require either my spouse traveling back to Japan and hand receiving the record, or requesting the record through the local embassy, which we were quoted at potentially taking up to 3 months to receive. I have called USCIS three separate times requesting more information, but it seems they are not allowed to answer whether or not she has to submit the criminal record again or not. Today I spoke with another USCIS representative and he suggested it possible that I provide a written statement of the situation and that we have already previously disclosed this and provided the criminal record for her i-130. She has not committed any crimes since gaining her residency (in her 2-year conditional period). As it stands I have written the letter that was recommended, and included it with her filing documents signed by both of us. My questions are; Does she in fact need to submit the same criminal record for the i-751, or is this stored in the USCIS database for reference? Does the question on form i-751 refer to the conditional 2-year period, or is it in fact "have you ever"?

I'm sharing a recent experience with USCIS for others who may be feeling frustrated with the process to correct errors or any similar problem. My husband's I-751 was filed more than a year ago, and when the I-797 was received a couple of weeks later, with the initial 18 month extension, his name on the I-797 was not spelled correctly. It was a minor error, only one letter was wrong, so we figured he could correct it at the biometrics appointment, which happened in August of last year. At biometrics, he corrected the spelling on the form and told the person processing his case. They said they could not make the correction, which seemed strange. It seemed logical to me that the biometrics staff would see the error on the I-797 and biometrics letter, because the green card, passport, I-751, and driver's license are all correct, so why would they not simply make the correction when doing biometrics? The first attempt to fix this error after biometrics was via the online USCIS typographical error feature, which he did and then we waited. Nothing in reply. Months went by. The 24 month extension I-797 arrived and had the same name spelling error. Another typographical error request was submitted online in late April of this year. Again, no response. In late May we sent a letter to the Missouri Service Center, to the address listed on the I-797, requesting the name spelling correction, and included photocopies of both I-797s, the biometrics appointment letter, and green card. He also asked USCIS in the letter to link his I-751 case to his USCIS online account. Because of the spelling error, the I-751 documents and status were not linked to his account, even though the A numbers and date of birth on the I-751 and original CR-1 case were the same. All of this confirms the incompetence of USCIS, which seems to happen to many people. Yesterday, the USCIS case status showed "name was updated" for the I-751 receipt number. Finally something positive! We're hoping to receive a new extension letter soon with the corrected name because we are going to Canada for vacation in two weeks and don't want to have problems returning to the US because of the error. If the I-751 is not linked to his online USCIS account in the next few weeks, he will try to call and speak to a tier two officer. In the meantime, we are hoping for a waiver of the ROC interview based on the new guidance and our very strong ROC package (more than 500 pages of quality evidence). He will file for naturalization in August, at the 3-year mark of his entering the US as an LPR and living together as a married couple. Lesson learned in our case: sending USCIS a formal letter with documentation got a quick response and action while the online typographical error tool did nothing. Good luck everyone with this long, frustrating process!