isha2012

My husband just received a letter for his removal of conditional basis of lawful permanent residence, basically our I-751 has been accepted! Great news! The letter says the green card will arrive within 60 days.

BUT, the letter also says: "You should not travel outside the U.S. before receiving your new card, as you may have difficulty reentering then U.S." My husband is scheduled to leave the country for business in just two days, and we're not sure what his risk is of not being able to get back in.

Since filing the request to remove conditions, he's been traveling with his expired green card and his 1 year extension letter with no problems. Does anyone know whether having received this approval letter would change his ability to continue to enter with these two documents? The extension is still valid until the end of June 2016, but we're not sure whether the fact that the permanent green card is now approved and no longer pending would void the extension letter.

We've read about getting a stamp in his passport from USCIS, but giving the timing of his trip it seems unlikely he could get an sppointment in time.

Any advice would be helpful. Does anyone have experience traveling outside the U.S. after you I-751 is approved but before receiving your new card? Thanks in advance for any responses!

My now husband and I met in 2011 while I was working in Peru (I have since moved back to the US). We got engaged when I went to visit him in Peru in September 2012, at that time he also started a business exporting products from Peru to the US. After my trip to Peru we started looking into immigration options - researching fiance visa options and spouse visa options. In early December he came to the US with is multi-entry 10 year B1/B2 for a one and a half month trip primarily for business, but of course also to see me. At an event a few days after he arrived we were talking to a friend of ours who was so excited about us being engaged and planning our wedding and said that we should get hitched on 12-12-12 because that would be such a great date to get married. This, coupled with being so happy to be together, prompted us to think, yeah, maybe we should do it, and why wait until 12-12-12, let's get married tomorrow! At the end of December we filed our I-130. Come end of January when his return flight was scheduled, we decided he would stay longer. His visa was good until May and the idea of being apart was so heart-wrenching! Now it's April and I called USCIS to see the status of our I-130 - the USCIS rep mentioned that we should look into filing an AOS since I'm a US citizen and he's here in the US and we are married. We are considering it, but the one concern I have, based on reading some other posts here, is that we got married so quickly after he arrived in the US it could look as if we had the intent to get married. Is this an issue or is the fact that, in addition to having no intention to get married when he arrived, we had no intention of him staying past January, and then definitely not past May, until the USCIS officer suggested it? Is there any proof that we can give that we had no intent to do either when he arrived in December?