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SC & TF   1

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So my wallet containing my 10yr GC got stolen back in October. I applied for a replacement card in January, and got a receipt notice which I'm mailing with my N400 application tomorrow. I've been waiting for my biometrics appointment. But today, when I checked my status online it says "card production ordered". It's strange 'cos I paid the required biometrics fee, but it looks like that's not going to happen based on my status. Could it be 'cos I'm about to apply for citizenship? has this happened to anyone?

N-400 Naturalization

03/22/10...N-400 mailed to Phoenix,AZ Lockbox

04/06/10...Check cashed. NOA1

05/07/10...Biometrics appointment

06/23/10...Interview appointment - PASSED!

08/19/10...Oath ceremony - Officially a US citizen!!!

08/24/10...Updated SSN records

08/31/10...Applied for US Passport and Card

09/15/10...Received US Passport and Card

I -751 Removal of conditions

04/04/09...I-751 sent to California service center

04/12/09...NOA1. permanent residence extended for one year.

06/10/09...Biometrics appointment done

06/21/09...2 yr GC expired

07/09/09...Approval letter received in the mail!!! GC approved 07/06/09

07/20/09...10 yr GC arrived in the mail.

AOS/EAD timeline: F1 to AOS (married to USC)

11/14/06.....I-130/I-485/I-765 sent to Chicago Lockbox (Day1)

11/21/06......Checks cashed, NOA1 for I-130/I-1485/EAD arrives in mail (Day 8)

12/12/06.... Biometrics done (Day 29)

01/20/07...Interview notice received dated Jan. 12, Yay!! (Day 68)

01/30/07....EAD touched, finally!(Day 78)

02/01/07....I-485, I-130 touched. EAD card production ordered (Day 80)

02/07/07....EAD card received in mail (Day 86)

02/26/07...Interview - name check pending (Day 105)

06/21/07.... Card production ordered email...omigosh! (Day 220)

06/24/07.....Email: Notice mailed welcoming new permanent resident on 6/22

06/30/07.....Welcome notice received in snail mail

07/02/07....Email: Approval notice sent. GC received in mail!!! (232 days from filing)

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SuperDuper!   230

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Make a copy of the GC when it arrives, tuck that one in the wallet to have always, and lock the original in a safe place, then carry it when you really need it. Nowadays, CBP agents can verify your immigration status on their Blackberry, so you are in the clear. I know. Some here will quote that you carry the GC with you, even when you are in your own house bathroom, 'cuz thatz what the law says. In the real world, smart folks know how things REALLY work in every day life. So many here are more practical and say carry it when you expect to go thru an immigration checkpoint. Glad you didn't have to pay for a new one. Good Luck.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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As you may have learned the hard way, the wallet is the worst part to keep the $310 Green Card. Thieves love wallets!

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

 
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