receive the green card after arrival, share your OS155A status

[Lil bear 3,831]

12 minutes ago, Andrej232 said:

Just to make it clear for me because it is confusing. As long as the stamp is not past the expiration date on the CBP admission stamp on my visa, am I free to travel ?  If not, I know that there are also international offices (Mexico etc.), is it possible to make an appointment there ? Any experience ? Thank you for your patience

You can  use the “stamped visa” to reenter the US for 12 months from the date you used the visa to enter the US 

[Chancy 6,233]

3 hours ago, Andrej232 said:

As long as the stamp is not past the expiration date on the CBP admission stamp on my visa, am I free to travel ?

 

If you first entered the US with your immigrant visa in Dec 2021, then your visa + CBP stamp will serve as your temporary green card until Dec 2022, regardless of the expiry date printed on the visa itself.  What matters is the date on the CBP admission stamp.  As long as you return within 1 year of that date, the visa + CBP stamp will be valid for US re-entry.

 

[prowler101 3]

Hello everyone, 
I want to share my story about how long I've been waiting for GC...
So, I paid an immigrant visa fee on 30th October 2021

Then I arrived in USA on 9th November 2021 

I was informed that I must receive my GC within 90 days of my entry.

I hoped that within 90 days I will receive my GC, but after 90 days I received nothing...
I submitted a request about 'outside of normal processing time' and after about 30 days they responded to my request, but without any specific information about the delay... In the response, there was like "We need some additional time for processing your case..." After that, I submitted another request and after a few weeks, they finally responded with information that my case is blocked because they "Did not receive Immigrant Visa Packet IV"... and I need to make an appointment to the local USCIS office and submit it in there.
So, I found out that the reason of all that delay was that the border officer at the airport made a mistake and returned Visa packet IV to me... HE SHOULD HAVE SENT it to the USCIS but he did not...!
My advice to all who will come to the USA soon for the GC.. ALWAYS ASK border officer about this Visa Packet IV. Make him double-check it if he needs to collect it or not! Otherwise, you may have a very big delay if he just returns this packet to you!

Now the second part of the story!
After I knew what's the problem I made a request for an appointment in the local USCIS office (in my case it's Chicago).
The USCIS has 30-days term for providing an answer on the request for appointment. Within this period they must call you and set up an appointment for you.
So, after a 2 or 3 weeks, the representative called me by phone and told me: "No available appointments at the moment" and I need to make another request for an appointment...
I submitted a second request for an appointment, but after 3 weeks the situation was the same!! The Representative called me on the phone and instead of setting up an appointment to me he just told that "No available appointments at the moment"...
After that, I made a third request and told them that I already made 2 requests so I really need this and I was assured by the representative that this time "I will finally get an appointment - I just need to wait when they will call me back within 30 days"... I waited for another 30 days... but this time nobody even called me back...!!! 😨 So, after that I called them again, and on 4th time they finally escalated this to an "emergency" situation because of too many requests that I made, and on the next day, the representative called me on the phone and finally set an appointment on 8 June 2022 for me. 

So, it took me more than 2 months just to get to the local USCIS office... 

 

And now the worst thing among all this.. Today in the morning I was in the local USCIS office and submitted the "Immigrant Visa Packet IV". The representative told me that they will not process this packet in the local office - they will just mail it to the main office and the main office will deal with it.
Then I asked the representative when will I finally receive the GC as I finally provided this packet to them? He told me that I may receive GC... from 6 to 9 months since today!!! I told him that I had already been waiting for more than 200 days, but he told me that all that previous time that I waited doesn't matter! The process will start only when USCIS will receive this packet.. So, I asked him why 6-9 months?? Why not 90 days..?. He told me that "90 days" range is no longer available, and now the processing time for this is 6-9 MONTHS!!! And if by that time my temporary Visa stamp will be over I need to set up another apointment to extend my temporary visa... Now it's only 5 month left until it will be expired... and I know how bad is experience of setting up an appointment to them...
I'm literally shocked at the moment...
So, I'm on my 212 day now, and as I understand I still need to wait 6-9 months more... I'm absolutely upset and disappointed...
 

[shoshk 1]

hi prowler .....

same sinario happend with me and up to now the representive did'nt call me ,  the only diffrence in my story i dont have any visa packet , for min electonic packet and i came family visa for spouse .and  the only  massage  i got it from uscis talking about immigriation fees , althogh i did the payment one month before i came to uscis .

can you tell me how you escalted to  emergency situation ??

 is there any email or phone gor emergency realy i need to do what you did.

 i will attach the email if any body can advice me i will be thankfull

[shoshk 1]

2 minutes ago, shoshk said:

hi prowler .....same sinario happend with me and up to now the representive did'nt call me ,  the only diffrence in my story i dont have any visa packet , for min electonic packet and i came family visa for spouse .and  the only  massage  i got

it from uscis talking about immigriation fees , althogh i did the payment one month before i came to uscis .

 

can you tell me how you escalted to  emergency situation ??

 

 is there any email or phone gor emergency realy i need to do what you did.

 

 i will attach the email if any body can advice me i will be thankfull.

 

 

[shoshk 1]

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[polar2018 5]

Hello everyone, 

We (group of 3) entered USA one month ago. Today, I checked the status in USCIS. 2 out of 3 cards are already printed and mailed. But there is no status change for one person. Is it normal?

[prowler101 3]

On 6/8/2022 at 7:41 PM, shoshk said:

[]

Hi shoshk
I called by the phone 800-375-5283
There is autoresponder and I told that I need appointment and then I was connected to live representative
I told to the representative that I made 3 requests for appointment without any success, and asked to escalate it because otherwise it will be absolutely unfair to wait any longer... so he agreed with me on that and marked it as an "emergency". 
I don't think he can do that if you make your first or second request... I think they can do that only after three or more unsuccesfull requests or so.

[Bill Hamze 89]

POE: June 1, 2022 

SSN received: June 10, 2022 (9 days later)

GC: still waiting, can take up to 90-120 days

[Bill Hamze 89]

On 6/10/2022 at 8:32 PM, Bill Hamze said:

POE: June 1, 2022 

SSN received: June 10, 2022 (9 days later)

GC: still waiting, can take up to 90-120 days

Exactly 30 days, no GC. Status still says “IV fee payment received”

 

What will the case status look like when they finally get around to processing the GC?

Edited July 1, 2022 by Bill Hamze

[Chancy 6,233]

5 minutes ago, Bill Hamze said:

What will the case status look like when they finally get around to processing the GC?

 

Something like "Card is being produced".

 

[bartek_rdz 2]

Immigrant Visa Fee Paid: April 30, 2022

Date of Entry: May 1, 2022

Port of Entry: Peace Arch (Blaine-Douglas land crossing)

SSN Received: May 12, 2022

Case Status: Immigrant Visa Fee Payment Received

60 days without the status change so far. 

 

Anyone knows if crossing the land border instead of POE at the airport affects the GC processing times?

 

[Chancy 6,233]

11 minutes ago, bartek_rdz said:

Anyone knows if crossing the land border instead of POE at the airport affects the GC processing times?

 

No impact.  Many of us here entered by air, yet still got our GCs way past the 90-day estimate.

 

[Bat man 56]

On 5/17/2022 at 8:52 PM, Bat man said:

Immigrant Visa Fee Paid: May 6, 2022

Date of Entry: May 8, 2022

Port of Entry: Austin (AUS)
SSN: May 17, 2022
Currently: Waiting for GC 🥰

 Immigrant Visa Fee Paid: May 6, 2022

Date of Entry: May 8, 2022

Port of Entry: Austin (AUS)
SSN: May 17, 2022
Currently: Card is Being Produced as of July 1, 2022 🙈

[l1am 6]

Immigrant Visa Fee Paid: May 13, 2022

Date of Entry: May 15, 2022

Port of Entry: JFK
SSN: May 23, 2022

Currently: Card is being produced as of July 3, 2022