After 4.5 years of waiting, 2 months of actually having it in my sticky mits, I found out 2 weeks ago that I have lost the green card ( How dumb can you get?
Anyway, I have applied for the I90, as per the USCIS website, have received the I797C notice of action and am awaiting the next stage. Spoke with someone at their customer service place this morning who said it is taking up to 6 months and I cannot trave out of the country until I have got the stamp in my passport from the local office saying that I am legal.
Has anyone had any experience in this kind of a situation, or do you have any suggestions? I'm supposed to be travelling at Christmas time..... sad
go to the local INS office and ask them to stamp your passport with an I-551.
Manc
That was quick! Thank you. Presumably this is something you have done? And presumably you have to make an appointment first?
I have found this on the infopass section of uscis.gov
All applicants will receive a notice for a biometrics processing appointment at an ASC and will submit their initial evidence during that appointment. All applicants will receive their biometrics appointment notice in the mail.
I'm not sure I can bypass this...
Manc
That was quick! Thank you. Presumably this is something you have done? And presumably you have to make an appointment first?
I have found this on the infopass section of uscis.gov
All applicants will receive a notice for a biometrics processing appointment at an ASC and will submit their initial evidence during that appointment. All applicants will receive their biometrics appointment notice in the mail.
I'm not sure I can bypass this...
Infopass is quick & easy in some cases and a pain in the arse at other offices.
It's a bit of a crapshoot to be honest.
I have to go at some point and submit new photo's for a new greencard and get my own I-551 in the near future.
Take your I-797 with you.
I tried getting an appointment using a couple of different reasons, but they all came back saying there is nothing available at the moment (
Thank you for your suggestions tho'.
They still do walk in's I believe but you're in for a wait though once you get there.
I've always used the walk-in method and you get a number at Portland INS. Maximum wait was probably around 2 hours.
How did you lose your card? I keep mine locked away with passports/documents unless I am travelling and then it lives in my passport.
I guess if I knew how I'd lost it, then I would know where to find it.... wink
I might try the walk in method, anything is worth trying once. Right?
I guess if I knew how I'd lost it, then I would know where to find it.... :wink:
I might try the walk in method, anything is worth trying once. Right?
Well, I meant do you carry it around in your purse all the time or something like that?
Anyway, hope it is not too much of a pain/expensive to get it replaced.
A quick update should anyone have similar problems... I have tried since I first posted on here to book an appointment at the Milwaukee office using Infopass. Every single time it came back saying there was nothing available. After numerous discussions with the USCIS customer service at the phone number on their website, I decided to take the plunge. They said the the reference to "emergencies" included the possibility of being unable to travel due to the restriction being minus the green card.
I left early this morning and arrived at a very quiet USCIS office to be told by the security official that I could not enter without an Infopass appointment confirmation letter. I explained everything I had gone through, following all the correct channels on the website, etc. He was polite, but firm. He couldn't let me in as there were no appointments available, they were booked up. He said that the "emergencies" were only for medical emergencies, and the folk who told me that it was ok to use emergency for travel were the folk that were "always giving out wrong information".....
I was gutted, at my wits end and didn't know what to do. He decided to take pity on me, made a call, and I was in and out of that building with the correct stamp in my passport, in the blink of an eye. I am hugely relieved to be in a position to travel again, but am at a loss as to why I couldn't get an appointment, as it was very quiet there today, with few people around. I guess that will just be one of life's many mysteries.
All I need now is to make sure I don't lose my passport...... ???
When I went to Detroit two weeks ago, they bollocked me for not having an appointment too, but allowed me to wait for a cancellation / no show.
Had the proper appointment yesterday, to be there at 11am. Got there promptly, filled in the form, had the finger printing done then....they clear the room of rubber mats, chairs etc, etc and someone comes in to polish the floor. Along with me, there were about a dozen folk waiting in various stages of the process, and we all had to hang around for an extra 45 minutes while the floor is polished. What dumb planner sets up the (obviously absolutely vital) floor polisher mid-morning on a Friday? No wonder they have no appointments available if part of the day is wasted in such a manner. Can you imagine a profit-based organisation operating in that way? roll