notarized affidavits.
your application is approved. The
photographs must also be:
Applicants who are lawful
permanent residents of the United
• Unmounted and printed
States must submit photocopies
on thin paper, on a white
(front and back) of Form I-551
background with a full frontal (Permanent Resident Card).
The Document Checklist will
view of your face; and
Depending on the circumstances, tell you when you need to send
some applicants must send
original documents and when
• Taken within 30 days of the
certain documents with their
you may send copies. Remember
date they are sent to USCIS.
application. For more information to make and keep copies of all
on the documents you must
documents you send to USCIS.
send with your application, see
the Document Checklist located
at the back of this Guide. If
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4. Send your application,
If you reside in Alabama,
What if I live overseas? If
documents, and fee to the
Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, you are overseas and filing