Forms

Form I-90

Also called I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card (Green Card), Green Card renewal.

Form I-90, Application to Replace Permanent Resident Card (Green Card), is how a permanent resident replaces or renews the card itself, not the status behind it. An EB-5 investor reaches it only after Form I-829 has removed the conditions and the ten year card is expiring, lost, damaged or wrong.

What it decides

8 CFR 264.5(b) makes filing compulsory rather than optional: within six months of the card's expiry, and on loss, theft, destruction, mutilation, a legal name or biographic change, a card USCIS issued but the holder never received, or data that is wrong through a DHS error. A conditional resident does not renew on this form. Form I-829 is what removes the conditions, and on approving it USCIS ends the conditional basis as of the second anniversary of the date the investor acquired conditional residence and may take biometrics for the new card. That same conditional resident does file Form I-90 to replace a conditional card that was lost, mutilated, never delivered or issued with wrong data. Form G-1055 sets the fee at $465 on paper and $415 online, and at $0 where USCIS issued a card that was never delivered, where the data is wrong through DHS error, or where the holder has turned 14 and the card expires after their sixteenth birthday. Since 10 September 2024 a renewal receipt notice on Form I-797 extends the card for 36 months past the expiry date printed on its face, and with the expired card it is evidence of status and of work authorisation.

Governed by 8 CFR 264.5(b) and (d); 8 CFR 216.6(d)(1) for what happens on approval of Form I-829; USCIS Form I-90 page, last updated 16 June 2026, for the bar on using it to remove conditions; USCIS Replace Your Green Card page, last updated 12 September 2025, for the conditional resident replacement grounds; USCIS alert of 18 September 2024, effective 10 September 2024, for the 36 month extension; Form G-1055, edition 05/29/26, for the fees. The Form I-90 page itself carries neither a dollar amount nor the 36 month extension, so those two clauses rest on G-1055 and on the alert, not on the form page.

Where this is explained properly

Pages here that go into form i-90 rather than mentioning it.

Related terms

Form I-829Form I-829, Petition by Investor to Remove Conditions on Permanent Resident Status, is the petition an EB-5 conditional permanent resident files in the 90 days before the second anniversary of that status, asking USCIS to confirm the capital was invested and the ten jobs created and to make the green card unconditional.
Removal of conditionsRemoval of conditions is the last EB-5 filing, Form I-829, submitted in the 90 days before the second anniversary of conditional residence, in which the investor shows the required capital was invested and kept invested for the period the law requires and that ten full-time jobs were created or can be expected within a reasonable time.
Conditional permanent residenceConditional permanent residence is the status an EB-5 investor and their spouse and children hold for the first two years: full lawful permanent residence, evidenced by a Green Card valid for two years, whose conditional basis must be removed on Form I-829 or the status ends.
Form I-551Form I-551, the Permanent Resident Card or green card, is the document 8 CFR 264.1(b) lists as evidence of alien registration for a lawful permanent resident, and an EB-5 investor's first one is issued with a two year expiry because the residence it evidences is conditional.
Form G-1055Form G-1055 is the USCIS fee schedule, the single document listing the fee currently in effect for every USCIS form, and for EB-5 it is the figure USCIS will actually accept, because the EB-5 amounts printed in 8 CFR 106.2 are stayed and are rejected on filing.

Checked against primary sources on 10 August 2026. Back to the glossary