Green Card renewal

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I am frankly stunned right now. Requested a renewal on my Green card last week and have it in my hands today. The application took less than 5 minutes and no need for anything else. No biometrics, no trip to Ottawa. My experience of USCIS was everything takes months and when you think you are at the finish line you have only really made it to the start.

I had considered becoming a citizen just to avoid this process. Not any more.

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That’s why I posted. I could not believe how quick and easy it was. I was expecting photocopies and scans of everything before attending 3 biometric sessions and then waiting months for a response. My green card was delivered yesterday after staring last week.

If I had known how easy it was going to be it would have eased something that has been bugging me for years.

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dvs_dave said:

NNH said:

As dvs_dave said below, citizens and GC holders are treated equally by the IRS, but it's a lot easier to drop your Green Card if you suddenly get a $1m job offer in Dubai!

That’s true, but no one is getting $1m expat job offers in Dubai. The market doesn’t exist.

Maybe not, but it has been a pain in the backside for Boris Johnson who ended up renouncing his citizenship in 2016 after paying between $50k and $100k in additional tax charges on the sale of a house.

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Clearly not answering you question but the green car renewal is about $500. A large portion of that is for bio metrics which I did not need to do as they reused my previous ones and kept my money.