Permanent Permanent Resident
Been a while since the last post but we wanted to report that as of October 2009 the processes of removing conditional status has been completed. Suzie is now a permanent permanent resident of the United States. Start to finish it was about 4 years. This was good as we had tickets booked for our first trip abroad since our marriage in 2006 for November '09 and having card that didn't say it was expired was good peace of mind... and joy of joys they got the name right this time. No more Hyphenated last name. Of course this mean the SS card had to be updated again but even that is finally done as well. Our application for removal of condition did not hit any snags other than an almost year long delay on the processing. We sent in the application as needed in late august of 2008 and then received a letter in november extending the conditional status card for another year... not another card mind you but a sheet of paper that said the expiration date had been extended. We received ...