Family inclusion and filing arrangements need review under the applicable rules, particularly if relatives became conditional residents at different times or circumstances changed. Do not assume one date or filing automatically covers every family member.
Maintain an individual status record
Collect each person’s residence card, admission or adjustment evidence and relevant civil documents. Give counsel changes in marriage, family composition or residence history before preparing the petition. A child’s eligibility for the original derivative process and the later removal-of-conditions procedure are distinct questions.
Keep notices accessible and avoid relying exclusively on the principal investor’s calendar. Track each person separately, because conditional residence can begin on different dates for different members of the same family and a single household calendar hides that. Collect each person residence card, admission or adjustment evidence and relevant civil documents, and give counsel any change in marriage, family composition or residence history before the petition is prepared.
A child eligibility for the original derivative process and for the later removal-of-conditions procedure are distinct questions, and an answer to the first is not an answer to the second. Keep notices accessible to the household rather than filed only with an adviser, and avoid planning from the principal investor dates alone. Review the schedule again whenever a family circumstance changes.