Form I-90 Green Card Renewal: Cost, Timeline, and When to File

A standard 10-year green card expires on its printed date, but your status as a lawful permanent resident does not expire along with it — the card is proof of your status, not the status itself. Renewing an expired or expiring 10-year card is done through Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card, filed with USCIS.

USCIS recommends filing Form I-90 within six months of your card's expiration date, and generally will not accept it much earlier than that window. If your card has already expired, you can and should still file — an expired card does not mean your status lapsed, but it does make it harder to prove your status to an employer, a bank, or at a border crossing, so the practical advice is to file as soon as you notice the expiration approaching rather than waiting.

As of the current USCIS fee schedule, the I-90 filing fee is $415 if you file online or $465 if you file on paper, and this single fee already includes biometrics — there is no separate biometrics charge, since USCIS folded that cost into the base fee in 2024. Filing online is both cheaper and generally faster to get a receipt notice, but paper filing is required if you are requesting a fee waiver.

Once USCIS receives your I-90, you get a receipt notice (Form I-797C) within a few weeks, and for renewal filings that notice currently extends the validity of your expiring or expired card for 36 months from the printed expiration date. That receipt notice, shown together with your old card, is accepted as proof of status for employment verification and re-entry after trips abroad. Processing times for Form I-90 have varied significantly over the past couple of years and differ by service center — as of 2026 many applicants report somewhere in the range of 8 to 14 months, though individual cases run both shorter and considerably longer. Because this figure moves and depends on which service center handles a given case, the USCIS Case Processing Times tool on uscis.gov is the only way to get a number specific to your filing, and we'd point you there rather than quote one figure as if it applied to everyone.

One filing mistake shows up often enough to flag directly: Form I-90 is only for the standard 10-year green card. If you have a 2-year conditional green card — most commonly issued through a recent marriage or an EB-5 investor petition — filing I-90 will not remove the conditions or extend that card. Conditional residents instead need to file Form I-751 (marriage-based) or Form I-829 (investor-based) during the 90-day window before their conditional card expires, and filing the wrong form does not protect your status the way the correct one would.

Premium processing is not available for Form I-90, so there is no way to pay extra for a faster decision. If your situation is genuinely urgent — an imminent job start date or emergency international travel — you can request an in-person appointment at a USCIS field office for a temporary ADIT stamp in your passport as interim proof of status while the I-90 itself is still pending.