From conditional to permanent, permanent resident!

Pollo has been in the USA from almost 2 years!  To celebrate this anniversary we get to reapply for his permanent residency.  Yay!  We actually just have to file to petition to remove the conditional status of his permanent residency, but it is similar to reapplying.

We had to fill out the form I751 which includes information about Pollo and then information on myself as well as we file together to remove the conditions of conditional status.

We had to provide documentation of our lasting marriage in the form of photos, mail delivered to the both of us, any joint account or joint assets together (like our new car), and our marriage certificates, and also affidavits from people who know us.  We skipped the last part though because we thought that owning car and appearing on a lease together would be sufficient.

One of the more complicated things that we had to do was get a translation of our Peruvian Marriage Certificate.  The USCIS website is unclear about the officialness that the translation has to be in.  We assumed that I couldn't do it since I have no official translating credential so I contacted some companies in the area to see what they could do.  I got one quote for $150 and one for $85, all for a one page document.  I tried using the American Translators Association, but a lot of the people on there don't actually have translation degrees or don't respond to their contact info.  After some dily-dallying, I remembered that my friend works for a translation company that I knew I could trust and she hooked us up with an official translation and the official certification.

Once we had our paperwork gathered and organized we put everything in an envelope with a a lot of money and sent it off.  It was rather anticlimactic, but also nerve wracking at the same time.  We have no idea when we will hear back from USCIS or what the next steps are.  It also took a lot less research than doing our original paperwork which you can read about in earlier editions of these posts.

I feel like the ease of this process is luring me into a false sense of security with the permanent residency.  Or maybe it IS this simple and I'm just worried from our past experience in Peru.  Whatever is is, I hope we get Pollo's permanent Green Card soon!