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my husband and i married in april '10, but separated in february '11. i remained living in the US but then returned to my home country in august '11, where i am now living. we have not divorced, and have no immediate plans to. my 2-year green card expires in august '12 and i am debating whether to renew it. can anyone advise me whether i would be eligible for renewal, and if i would have to return to the US to do so? any help appreciated.

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*** Moving from AOS to Removal of Conditions (ROC) forum as this is the process OP is asking about ****

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Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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my husband and i married in april '10, but separated in february '11. i remained living in the US but then returned to my home country in august '11, where i am now living. we have not divorced, and have no immediate plans to. my 2-year green card expires in august '12 and i am debating whether to renew it. can anyone advise me whether i would be eligible for renewal, and if i would have to return to the US to do so? any help appreciated.

A two year Green Card cannot be renewed. You would have to file for Removal of Conditions (RoC) and, yes, you will need to be in the U.S. as you will need to attend the biometrics appointment and most likely an interview. That's the good news. The bad news is that your RoC petition cannot be adjudicated until your divorce is final. USCIS only knows happily married and living together (and they want tons of proof!) or divorced, nothing in between. Time is not on your side, so you need to get your divorce going as soon as possible!

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

 
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