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needinghelp   0

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Does anyone know if you can leave the country if you do not have your green card yet, but have received the approval letter. Is it too risky to travel out of the u.s. and then get someone to mail your green card to you??

Me and my husband have one more day to get it in the mail, then we will have to cancel our trip.

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VanessaTony   3,567

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Does anyone know if you can leave the country if you do not have your green card yet, but have received the approval letter. Is it too risky to travel out of the u.s. and then get someone to mail your green card to you??

Me and my husband have one more day to get it in the mail, then we will have to cancel our trip.

Well, the question is this. If you had the card and lost it while overseas what would you do then? Surely there's a way to get in if you've lost or had the card stolen, just like if you don't receive the card in the post (bearing in mind the replacement fee is $300+)

Do you still have the AP document (if you got one)? If you do you can still use that if it's not expired. I would have someone mail the card to you, but I would add it to something else so it's less likely that someone picks it up as a greencard.. you know what I mean? Something like mail someone a t-shirt or food, or something and include the card with it. If you're not going somewhere like your home country, I wouldn't risk mailing the card to a hotel or something.

Aussie K1 process - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/206016-australian-beneficiaries-packet-3-to-interview-date/
AOS, EAD & AP - the Aussie Way (including document list) - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/235331-aos-ead-ap-from-k1-the-aussie-way-doc-list-included/
ROC April 2012 - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/358760-i-751-april-2012-filers/ (includes document list)
N-400 April 2013 - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/412738-n-400-april-2013-filers/ (includes document list)

N-400 Interview review - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/412738-n-400-april-2013-filers/?p=6381814

N-400 Oath Ceremony review - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/412738-n-400-april-2013-filers/?p=6537699
Aussie Chat page continued - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/331922-new-2011-land-downunder-aussie-aussie-aussie-oi-oi-oi/
Aussie Name Change on Passport Process - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/248400-australian-passport-name-change-process/
Travel on maiden name passport with married name GC, tickets in married name - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/183541-land-downunder-aussie-aussie-aussie-oi-oi-oi/page__view__findpost__p__4135806
Shipping Costs from Aus to US - http://www.visajourney.com/forums/topic/293179-shipping-costs-aus-to-usa/

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CDAgirlMI Proficient

CDAgirlMI   51

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Well, the question is this. If you had the card and lost it while overseas what would you do then? Surely there's a way to get in if you've lost or had the card stolen, just like if you don't receive the card in the post (bearing in mind the replacement fee is $300+)

Do you still have the AP document (if you got one)? If you do you can still use that if it's not expired. I would have someone mail the card to you, but I would add it to something else so it's less likely that someone picks it up as a greencard.. you know what I mean? Something like mail someone a t-shirt or food, or something and include the card with it. If you're not going somewhere like your home country, I wouldn't risk mailing the card to a hotel or something.

AP is invalid once you've been approved for Permanent Residency/Greencard.

8/2/2021:  Mailed N-400

8/4/2021: N-400 received

8/6/2021:  Biometrics to be reused
3/15/2022:  Interview (successful)

Brother Hesekiel Mentor

Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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I personally would not leave the USA without the Green Card in my hand. What if the mail carrier screws up and sends it back to USCIS? What you need is an I-551 stamp in your passport ASAP.

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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Vivi6   12

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You should have scheduled an infopass appointment to get the i-551 stamp in your passport...did you end up canceling your trip?

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AOS Journey

Marriage: 2010-03-06

Date Filed: 2010-03-23

NOA: 2010-04-02 (via texts and emails)+check cashed

NOA1 in the mail: 2010-04-07

Bio Appointment letter: 04/29 (FINALLY!!!!)

Bio Appointment: scheduled 05/24, walk-in on 05/03, yay!

**Touch on AOS and EAD: 05/03 and 05/04

Interview notice: 05/14, dated 05/11. It's for 06/17

EAD and AP approved: 06/03

**Touch on EAD and AP: 06/04

**Touch on AP: 06/07

**Touch on EAD and 2nd card production ordered: 06/08

**Touch on EAD: 06/09

AP received: 06/09

**Touch on EAD: 06/11. 3rd approval email received!

EAD received: 06/11 step 2 of 3 completed!

Interview scheduled: 06/17 @ 915 am APPROVED and card production ordered same day!!!!

Welcome letter received:06/21

2nd email Green Card production ordered:06/22

**Touch on AOS:06/23

3rd email received, blue dot went to post decision: 06/30

Tik tok tik tok....GREEN CARD IN HAND: 07/02!!!!!Less than a year since filing for the k1!

K1 Journey

I-129F Sent: 2009-08-12

I-129F NOA1: 2009-08-14

I-129F NOA2: 2009-10-29

Packet 3 Received: 2009-11-17

Interview: 2010-02-16, approved, visa the same day!

POE: 2010-03-03 @ LAX

 
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