Question about Conditional Green Card

[dwain]

Hello,

I and my wife got our greencards about a year ago. She had won the lottery and I also got the greencard because we were married about a year. I was always thinking that I was a conditional greencard holder. Because when your marriage is less than 2 years the spouse would get a conditional greencard. So yesterday I wanted to make some research about what to do to remove the condition. On the websites I saw that only the owner's whose greencards have a 2 years expire date since it's issued are conditional greencard holders. I checked my greencard and its expire period is 10 years as the one with my wife. So in this case does it meen that I have no condition?

I also checked my passposts stamp and I didn't noticed anything like Con Rez. It's always PER REZ.

I wonder why I got a greencard without a condition because we were only married for one year at the time when we received the cards. Even 2 months less.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

[rayb]

Sometimes Green Cards are issued for 10-year duration mistakenly when they should have been for 2-year duration.

The mistake may catch up to you and be corrected, or maybe not.

--Ray B

Hello,

I and my wife got our greencards about a year ago. She had won the lottery and I also got the greencard because we were married about a year. I was always thinking that I was a conditional greencard holder. Because when your marriage is less than 2 years the spouse would get a conditional greencard. So yesterday I wanted to make some research about what to do to remove the condition. On the websites I saw that only the owner's whose greencards have a 2 years expire date since it's issued are conditional greencard holders. I checked my greencard and its expire period is 10 years as the one with my wife. So in this case does it meen that I have no condition?

I also checked my passposts stamp and I didn't noticed anything like Con Rez. It's always PER REZ.

I wonder why I got a greencard without a condition because we were only married for one year at the time when we received the cards. Even 2 months less.

Thank you for your help.

Regards,

[dwain]

Is there a way for me to check if there is a condition on my permit online?

Can I pretend like that I don't have a condition in this case with my card?

[rayb]

There is no "online" weblink for Green Card '2 or 10-year" verification.

If USCIS catches the error, they will send you a notice and ask you to return the card, then issue you a 2-year card.

Otherwise it might not get caught until you apply for Naturalization (at 4 years and 9 months from issue date of card).

--Ray B

Is there a way for me to check if there is a condition on my permit online?

Can I pretend like that I don't have a condition in this case with my card?

[dwain]

rayb thank you for the answers.

It seems that there is no need for me to take an action at the moment until any message arrives from USCIS.

One last question. You said that there some times that that the cards are issued mistakenly 10 years instead of 2 years. Now I have a card with 10 years expire date although we were married less than 2 years at the time when we received the cards. Does this mean that the card was issued mistakenly for 10 years or does the USCIS sometime decide to give a GC without any condition concedering the interviews they made with the candidates?

According to your answer I understand that my card might have been issued mistakenly 10 years. But is there a possibility that I have no condition and the issued card is correct?

[rayb]

I have read and talked with a half dozen or so people who received 10-year cards, but whose marital history suggested they were only eligible for 2-year cards.

A couple of these recipients contacted USCIS and it was confirmed the cards were issued for 10 years by mistake, and they were asked to return the cards and later received 2-years cards. In a couple other instances, at the time of the 2-year expiration, they received notice that they needed to do the I-751, Removal of Conditions, procedure.

Of people who have mistakenly received 10-year cards and were never contacted by USCIS and who did not report to USCIS, I don't know the outcomes.

In my opinion, if USCIS discovers or decides at some future time that your 10-year card was mistakenly issued, the worst that can happen is that you will have to pay the $590 fee and submit form I-751, with evidence that your marriage continued or that it ended through no intentional fault or fraud on your part.

--Ray B

rayb thank you for the answers.

It seems that there is no need for me to take an action at the moment until any message arrives from USCIS.

One last question. You said that there some times that that the cards are issued mistakenly 10 years instead of 2 years. Now I have a card with 10 years expire date although we were married less than 2 years at the time when we received the cards. Does this mean that the card was issued mistakenly for 10 years or does the USCIS sometime decide to give a GC without any condition concedering the interviews they made with the candidates?

According to your answer I understand that my card might have been issued mistakenly 10 years. But is there a possibility that I have no condition and the issued card is correct?

[dwain]

In this case I'm not going to do anything. If they send any message to me towards the end of the first 2 years I'll do whatever I need to do. But if there is no any warning and somehow it is discovered that I should have submit the i 751 form after 2 years, I don't think my permit residence will be cancelled because my card has a 10 years expire date.

I'm asking these because I and my wife haven't moved to the USA yet. Our family members are facing some health problems and we need to be here to support them. But we've already started to create our relocation plan for the next year. We're going to the USA at least once or twice a year. I also opened my bank account and got my credit card from BOA. So I just want to be ready if I get any contact from USCIS about this issue in the future.

Thank you very much for your help.

Regards,