trackit Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 I got the SMS last week that my 485 was approved and this past Monday I received the welcome letter. Now, only I received it whereas my wife (who was the dependent applicant) did not receive it. However her application was also approved. I have two questions now, 1. When we applied for 485 we were in a different address and while mine was changed (it got changed when I was asking questions about my application status back in Mar), her's was not. I am pretty sure her welcome letter and later her card will be doing to our old address. I talked to the Post Office and they said if they do not recognize the name, they will send it back. What are my options? I talked to a L2 officer and she said that we might have to pay $450 to have the card reissued. Is there a way out? I cannot imagine I am alone in this situation, how have others dealt with it? 2. My wife is presently in India, so should she enter via AP? We were both using our EAD/AP. How would the logistics of her re-entry work? Any insight would be highly appreciated. Link to comment
pontevecchio Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 Have her come back on AP . Obviously she has not got the GC even though you say it has been approved. If she is informed by the POE Officer have her practise suitable expressions of joy . If he does say that she may go for secondary processing. Once she is back she can get an INFOPASS to check. If you did not bother to change her address and they sent it to the wrong address you could claim the card was lost and I suspect they will not waive the 450 USD fee. Aside from the 450 USD for a replacement card and a couple of months wait you will get off relatively lightly for not taking COA requirememnts seriously. No major problem. Link to comment
JoeF Posted October 19, 2012 Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 The GC is not forwarded, as far as I know. When the address changed, she had to file an AR-11 and also let USCIS know of the address change for the pending applications. Failure to do that of course results in problems... Link to comment
trackit Posted October 19, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2012 We did file an AR 11 (not online but via mail) and as far as I know there is no requirement to send AR11 by certified mail. Anyway my question was what can be done rather than what could have happened. Link to comment
pontevecchio Posted October 21, 2012 Report Share Posted October 21, 2012 You have not bothered to read my reply? Link to comment
trackit Posted October 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Hi I did, Pontevecchio - and thanks for that. I think my response was lost in the time-delay; at the time I posted my response, your response was not visible. Link to comment
pontevecchio Posted October 23, 2012 Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Refreshing the browser sometimes helps in seeing replies sooner. Link to comment
trackit Posted October 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 Thanks for the tip, I'll remember that the next time! Link to comment
trackit Posted October 23, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2012 I cannot say if you were serious or sarcastic ... but I will take it for what its worth! Link to comment
trackit Posted October 26, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 26, 2012 @pontevecchio So my wife came back today and she was asked to go through secondary inspection, where they did not tell her that her GC was approved. They took the I94 that she had completed and did the paperwork and stapled I94 back to her passport. What does this mean now? Link to comment
pontevecchio Posted October 28, 2012 Report Share Posted October 28, 2012 She has been paroled in. Have her get an INFOPASS Appointment and ask what is happening. Rather why wont you let a lawyer help you? Link to comment
trackit Posted October 29, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 29, 2012 I asked my lawyer, he suggested infopass too. I have booked an appt this thu for us to go and discuss this. Link to comment
trackit Posted October 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted October 30, 2012 On a broader question - are these symptoms of any problem (I am asking about the fact that the secondary inspection officer did not notice her PR approval)? Does this commonly occur? Link to comment
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