Green card approval date and a conditional Green card, a little help?

[ALittleHelpPlease 0]

Hello,

Hope everyone of you is having a nice day. I just needed some information about the "Green card approval date" and it's link to getting a conditional Green card.

Some context: My wife is a US citizen and applied for my I-130 last summer. We finally got our approval in late January and my case got registered in NVC/CEAC a few days back.
I have read that at the time of your Green card approval if you've been married for less than 2 years, you are given a conditional Green card and then it has to be moved to a non-conditional one later. I was wondering what exactly is this date? Is it the date of the I-130 approval or maybe the interview or something different? I have an acuqitance who went through this process and was essentially stuck in the US for 12-14 months while he got his new Green card. Since I usually travel around for work this might be an issue.

Our 2nd year of marriage will complete in November this year and if this approval date is the interview date, then I wanted to know if I could just hold my application at this state for now, maybe just pay the fees and wait till November and then submit the DS-261 and get an interview date. Would that be good idea? And would I able to get around the conditional card that way and just enter on a non-conditional Green card later in the year? I am willing to wait a bit more just to avoid having to go through the process again.

Any and all ideas are welcome. Looking forward to hearing from you.
Thanks!

[USS_Voyager 1,971]

32 minutes ago, ALittleHelpPlease said:

Is it the date of the I-130 approval or maybe the interview or something different?

It is the date that you become a permanent resident. So for you, since you’re doing IR1/CR1, it will be the  date that you enter the US on the immigrant visa. If you enter the US after the 2 years anniversary of your marriage (the date on your marriage certificate), you will receive a unconditional 10 year green card. Note: you also have to enter before you immigrant visa expires, that’s why some people don’t have the choice because their visa expire before their 2 year anniversary

Edited March 22, 2019 by USS_Voyager

[arken 4,197]

You can just delay the NVC docs submission by a 1-2 months so that your interview falls on Aug-Sep. You will get CR1 visa upon approval. You may then travel to US after the 2nd anniversary and you will get 10 year GC.

 

This way, if visa is approved, you can spend those last few months in your country happily rather than with the anxiety about the interview.

 

 

Edited March 22, 2019 by arken

[aaron2020 11,651]

10 minutes ago, arken said:

You can just delay the NVC docs submission by a 1-2 months so that your interview falls on Aug-Sep. You will get CR1 visa upon approval. You may then travel to US after the 2nd anniversary and you will get 10 year GC.

 

This way, if visa is approved, you can spend those last few months in your country happily rather than with the anxiety about the interview.

 

 

THIS. 

Perfect plan to avoid the conditional green card and get the regular 10 years green card.  Prolonging the immigration process is the only way to avoid getting a conditional green card in this case.  

 

Come before 2nd anniversary, then conditional green card which requires removal of condition in 2 years for a regular 10 years green card.  

 

Come after 2nd anniversary, then 10 years green card.

[Khallaf 649]

39 minutes ago, aaron2020 said:

THIS. 

Perfect plan to avoid the conditional green card and get the regular 10 years green card.  Prolonging the immigration process is the only way to avoid getting a conditional green card in this case.  

 

Come before 2nd anniversary, then conditional green card which requires removal of condition in 2 years for a regular 10 years green card.  

 

Come after 2nd anniversary, then 10 years green card.

note we did this with my husband he entered a day after our 2nd year wedding anniversary his green card came in the mail with the conditions on it, we are in the process of having it updated by DHS error, it did not cost us to file the I-90 online, we are now going to a new bio metric appointment set by USCIS next week.

 

so it isn't always the case you will get the auto 10 year all though you should sometimes it doesn't happen and you need to file the I-90 to get it corrected a little extra effort but worth it.

[ALittleHelpPlease 0]

Hello everyone,

 

I have gotten a lot of help with my application from this forum, so thank you all for that. Right now, I have received the approval from USCIS and my application is at the MVC stage.

 

Some context to my question. I am an IT consultant and usually spend half a year or so in a country and then move on to somewhere else. Due to this, when my wife submitted my I-130, we were living in Sweden and now on the CEAC page my interview location is set to Sweden.
Now while at the MVC stage, filling out the AOS and IV forms, we are back in our home country. So, while filling out the forms I am writing down my current home country address as my previous Swedish address is now invalid. Just wanted to know if that would have an impact of the application? Would changing the address on these forms also change the interview location?
Furthermore, I might be heading to Finland after the summer for work there, which could coincide with the time I have to select interview times, so if I might have to change my consulate/embassy again to somewhere in Finland. Would I be able to do that? And would changing addresses/consulates multiple times have a negative effect on my case?

 

In all your experiences and knowledge, what would be the best course of action in this situation?
Would love to hear from you all.
Thanks in advance.

 

[Ryan H 3,790]

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6 hours ago, ALittleHelpPlease said:

Hello everyone,

 

I have gotten a lot of help with my application from this forum, so thank you all for that. Right now, I have received the approval from USCIS and my application is at the MVC stage.

 

Some context to my question. I am an IT consultant and usually spend half a year or so in a country and then move on to somewhere else. Due to this, when my wife submitted my I-130, we were living in Sweden and now on the CEAC page my interview location is set to Sweden.
Now while at the MVC stage, filling out the AOS and IV forms, we are back in our home country. So, while filling out the forms I am writing down my current home country address as my previous Swedish address is now invalid. Just wanted to know if that would have an impact of the application? Would changing the address on these forms also change the interview location?
Furthermore, I might be heading to Finland after the summer for work there, which could coincide with the time I have to select interview times, so if I might have to change my consulate/embassy again to somewhere in Finland. Would I be able to do that? And would changing addresses/consulates multiple times have a negative effect on my case?

 

In all your experiences and knowledge, what would be the best course of action in this situation?
Would love to hear from you all.
Thanks in advance.