So this question would be for the AFA but maybe, just maybe someone has experience with it;

-If you had a figure on Cardback, in the bubble, but the POP was cut out so air was able to contaminate the figure ...well that how some people treat it, and you send the figure to get graded and have the AFA take the bubble off the card would it fetch a U grade?

-I'm having this discussion with a co-worker and this is how I see it but I may be wrong...The figure itself has not went from hand to hand, sure the card has a history and creases and a bend or 2 and of course a HOLE, but the figure is fine. So no slimy, greasy dirt ridin hands have ever touched it which I deem as uncirculated. I'll read and heed

They would U grade it going by your description. As far as I am aware, as long as it could not be removed from the bubble before they got their money-grubbing hands on it, it is classed as U gradable.

Thanks Josh that's what I figured. No the figure can't come out. Another thought I had is do I want to even spend the money??? For what a case and a nice shiny sticker lol
Well see as time goes on? Thanks again.