Do I Need to Renew My Green Card If I Am Applying for U.S. Citizenship?
Published September 20, 2016 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Headquarters recently issued a directive clarifying the circumstances under which prospective applicants for naturalization – filing Form N-400 – must also renew their Permanent Resident cards and file Form I-90. The directive establishes guidelines that are at odds with practices that had long been in place at local CIS offices, such as Chicago’s, since naturalization applicants with expired green cards were rarely, if ever, asked whether the Green Card renewal process had been initiated during the course of a naturalization interview/process. The following are the two most common scenarios applicants […]