Mailing Address Madness!

[Vanessa92 0]

Hello everyone!!

 

I am starting to feel bad because I keep asking these weird questions... Anyways! 

 

My husband and I have filed the AOS including the EAD in April 2017! Our status on the AOS has still not changed, but I am more concerned about the EAD.

On September 5th 2017, the EAD has been approved and on September 8th, the status has changed to "your card is being mailed to you".

 

In the past 3 month I have moved twice. I am afraid that the USCIS has sent the card to the old address (Apartment in Marin, CA). Well, that's the place we suddenly have to leave. Then, we have forwarded all the mail to our Marin address to our official P.O. Box. All the mail should go there. The letter from USCIS, that my card will arrive in a separate letter, has arrived at my mailbox (not a forwarded). So we moved to San Francisco for three months, and of course I have changed the home address, but kept the mailing address the same. Now, the USCIS case status says that if I haven't received the card by Oct 8th, I shall contact the USCIS - which I did on Oct 10th. Also, I have filed a move, back to a new house in Marin, CA. Today, I have received an email saying they have precessed my request address change. But nothing about where my card is, when it will arrive, where it will arrive, and what happened to the first one, not even which address they have sent it to.... 

 

So does the USCIS usually send CARDs to the home address or mailing address? Do they not send the CARDs to "forwarded addresses"? Does it really take over two months since the "has been sent" message? 

 

Thanks for listening, Vanessa

 

 

Card Was Mailed To Me

On September 8, 2017, we mailed your new card for Receipt Number MSCXXXXXXXXX, to the address you gave us. If you do not receive your card by October 8, 2017, please go to www.uscis.gov/e-request to request that we send your new card to you. If you move, go to www.uscis.gov/addresschange to give us your new mailing address.

[SuperBaoBao 8]

Usually they will send it to Mailing address. Last time I changed my address through the address change website (I changed it a few months ago) and they still sent a mail (that was an interview letter) to previous address. Good thing they sent one to my lawyer as well and my lawyer notified us. Otherwise we have no way of knowing. USCIS makes a lot of mistakes on addresses. You should call and ask about it. 

[Vanessa92 0]

@Yhwinnie Thank you for your response. I have tried to call them on the number they have sent me in the latest email (confirmation of address change). But for whatever reason they did not accept the receipt number (maybe I have put it in the wrong way). I called three times and put in the number three times each time... they didn't recognize it and just hung up. There is no way to speak to a representative, I assume. I am waiting to hear back to them to my "lost card in the mail" request by Nov 1st. Hope I will hear more! 

[little immigrant 801]

Have you made an infopass appointment to clear things up? 

[Vanessa92 0]

4 hours ago, Andrina said:

Have you made an infopass appointment to clear things up? 

An appointment? Just to ask them where my card is? I have just checked the website and the offices in SF and Sacramento do not have appointments available ATM. :/ I will just have to wait and keep checking I guess. 

[little immigrant 801]

What about the first address? Have you checked with the current occupants? 

 

I lost my 10 year GC in the mail and it took them 2 months to finally get it to me. It was sent to a previous address and returned to them. I had updated my address in the website but still. 

[Ryan H 3,813]

Moved from iR-1/CR-1 Progress Reports to USCIS Service Centers forum; topic is about receiving correspondence from USCIS which is applicable to multiple processes.

[Vanessa92 0]

I have the card now! I have been on the phone with USCIS for two days until I could finally reach an officer, who could give me the tracking number of the card! With that, I went to the post office. They said the tracking number is not valid, so we tried putting numbers 0-9 in a spot (I literally guessed where) and we found the card! It has never been forwarded to my mailbox, instead went to the first address. My husband has been in contact with the apartment manager who said for the past two months that nothing has arrived. Walking over there with a tracking history of my poor mail, nobody was home. We contacted the apartment manager again, turns out she quit a while ago. The new manager arranged a meeting and I finally have my card in hand! Two months worth of paychecks wasted - but a happy end!