Should I renew passport of my original country

[Rupyal85 0]

Hello, 

 

I applied for Naturalization on Aug 10, 2019 and USCIS have scheduled my biometrics appointment on Sep 5, 2019.  

Considering the average timeline for this process as per my field office, it takes about upto 15 months. During that process, my Indian passport will expire ( Feb 2020). 
 

Should I renew my Indian passport or does it not matter. I have the valid PR card which is valid until 2024. 

 

Thank you

[arken 4,197]

Unless you are planning to travel abroad before oath ceremony, no need to renew.

[xyz12345 260]

imo unless you won't have ever have a sudden family emergency that will force you to go to India within the next 15 months, then you don't need to renew it. The average timeline of 15 months is just too long not to have a valid passport for the remaining 9 months.  I would have it renewed after biometrics just to get it over with.

Edited August 23, 2019 by xyz12345

[Loren Y 2,755]

If it isn't to tough to do while here in the US, I would renew it just to be safe. If it was going to be a difficult process I might not bother with it, but with the way the Immigration works here like others have said I wouldn't want to be without a valid passport from one country or another in case of travel being required. If it is something you can do by mail without traveling to an embassy I would renew. Maybe your local embassy does Mobile Consular. My wife has to renew her Thai passport as it will be expiring in 6 months or so, and we have a bunch of international, and local travel coming up in the next few months, so her closest embassy to me is in Los Angeles, and we are in Las Vegas, NV. But I already made an appointment for the 7th of September because twice a year they have a mobile group of people that travel to different cities in the area of their embassy to help people renew their passport. They will be about 5 miles from my home, so we will go over there, fill out paperwork and give them a return express envelope to use to return the new and old passport to us when they are done, and it is easy. They do all the legwork. Takes 2-3 weeks roughly, so for as easy as it is, were going to do it. A money order and a prepaid envelope is pretty easy to supply.

[LisaUK 22]

On 8/23/2019 at 1:19 PM, Rupyal85 said:

Hello, 

 

I applied for Naturalization on Aug 10, 2019 and USCIS have scheduled my biometrics appointment on Sep 5, 2019.  

Considering the average timeline for this process as per my field office, it takes about upto 15 months. During that process, my Indian passport will expire ( Feb 2020). 
 

Should I renew my Indian passport or does it not matter. I have the valid PR card which is valid until 2024. 

 

Thank you

I personally would say renew incase of an emergency. I don't know about your origin country passport process but I was able to renew mine online really easily (including taking a new photo).

[Rupyal85 0]

Thank you everyone. I might take your suggestions and renew. Thank you again