US Immigration from Australia

My wife has a green card which expires in September 2021, so we ll be filing her Removal of Conditions (I-751) paperwork in June. However, her EAD/AP combo card expires in May.

My understanding was that once we have the green card, we don t need to do anything else to keep EAD/AP going except for Removal of Conditions. But I ve seen a few threads here where other K-1 visa holders are discussing renewing the combo card. Do we need to do this, given that she has a green card already?

If so:

1. Can she still work while the EAD/AP renewal is pending?
2. I had read in another thread that there could be a 180-day extension. But my wife is a teacher, and her school year follows a typical U.S. school year. So an EAD that expires in November would be expiring during the school year. How can we make sure that she s ok to work through the rest of the year?
3. Is there anything that we or her employer can do to expedite the renewal?

Also, thinking ahead to I-751: her green card will probably expire while we are waiting for this to process. As long as we have filed that form, is she still able to work?

Hey All,

We sent of our 1-129F packet on the 26th of December 2020 and it was Received by the USCIS on the 28th of December 2020 (this was specified in the receipt notice), we only received the receipt notice on the 5th of march 2021 I'm assuming because they were backlogged with covid etc.

My question is, does the 5-7 month processing time for the NOA2 start from when uscis received the packet the 28th of December or when they issued the receipt the 5th of march.

Our packet was sent to the California Processing Center

Thanks