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Hello all, my brother is about to flight to U.S, and we made a mistake of choosing a bad lawyer ; I recognize it was our mistake too because we didn’t check more than twice the info he wrote in the Ds 260. The lawyer instead of adding the name of the person living in the address to receive the GC and SSN card; he wrote the first line of my address and in the address field he just added the last part of the address . E.g. Name of the person living here: 10902 NW , address: 77 st . So, as you can see, the card would go in a wrong place.
 

Do you have any suggestions of what to do to get the GC and SSN once he landed to America?

 

thank you 

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12 minutes ago, Dtsuave said:

Hello all, my brother is about to flight to U.S, and we made a mistake of choosing a bad lawyer ; I recognize it was our mistake too because we didn’t check more than twice the info he wrote in the Ds 260. The lawyer instead of adding the name of the person living in the address to receive the GC and SSN card; he wrote the first line of my address and in the address field he just added the last part of the address . E.g. Name of the person living here: 10902 NW , address: 77 st . So, as you can see, the card would go in a wrong place.
 

Do you have any suggestions of what to do to get the GC and SSN once he landed to America?

 

thank you 

At the POE he tells the Immigration officer to update his address. Also submit now to USCIS the correct address. https://www.uscis.gov/addresschange

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8 minutes ago, dwheels76 said:

At the POE he tells the Immigration officer to update his address. Also submit now to USCIS the correct address. https://www.uscis.gov/addresschange

Thanks for your advice, so he should submit the change of address before he landed to U.S? I’m asking because he hasn’t arrived yet. Thank you 

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3 minutes ago, Dtsuave said:

Thanks for your advice, so he should submit the change of address before he landed to U.S? I’m asking because he hasn’t arrived yet. Thank you 

do that now and at POE.

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Case Complete to Interview spreadsheet

From now on your VJ Member name will be verified. If the name you put on form to be added to spreadsheet comes up not found, you will not be added to the spreadsheet. If you don't have a timeline you will not be added to the spreadsheet.

Please Please put your VJ member name only. Not nicknames or real names whatever your VJ name is. It's below your profile picture!!

 

Come join the current Interview thread: 

DQ-to-Interview-2023-all-countries

Case Complete to Interview Spreadsheet
Case Complete to Interview Form

 

 

 

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5/21/2018: Filed i751 ROC
6/12/2018: NOA1 Date
3/5/2019: Biometrics Appt
12/28/2019: 18 month Extension has expired
1/9/2020: InfoPass Appt to get stamp in Passport
2/27/2020: Combo Interview (ROC and Citizenship)
3/31/2020: submitted service request for being pass normal processing time
4/7/2020: Card being produced
4/8/2020: Approved
4/10/2020: Card mailed
4/15/2020: 10 year green card received
 
 
N-400
5/21/2019: Filed Online
5/21/2019: NOA1 Date
6/13/2019: Biometrics Appt
2/27/2020: Citizenship Interview
4/7/2020: In queue for Oath Ceremony to be scheduled
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18 minutes ago, Dtsuave said:

Thanks for your advice, so he should submit the change of address before he landed to U.S? I’m asking because he hasn’t arrived yet. Thank you 

 

When he lands, he's going to go through border patrol. Tell him to tell the officer to correct his address. That's what @dwheels76 is saying

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12 minutes ago, Dtsuave said:

Thank you , I understood that . I asked about the change of address in uscis if he should do that now before traveling?

 

You can do it now or whenever you want. But since I know how USCIS takes time, I'd just wait till POE and tell CBP. That's a sure bet

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I gave this advice to someone a few days ago. I will give the same advice as others have mentioned above. Change your address now before you come with AR-11 (https://www.uscis.gov/addresschange) and also with CBP upon entry. Do both. Redundancy is better in this case.

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26 minutes ago, nastra30 said:

I gave this advice to someone a few days ago. I will give the same advice as others have mentioned above. Change your address now before you come with AR-11 (https://www.uscis.gov/addresschange) and also with CBP upon entry. Do both. Redundancy is better in this case.

Hi i was helping him about doing this step first changing online but the instructions says : If you entered the United States on an immigrant visa, we will send your Green Card to the mailing address you provided at the time of your visa interview, or upon admission to the United States.  If you change your address after arriving in the United States, please update your address.

 

so basically they’re saying to wait until arriving to US ? Because the will send to the address stated on the ds 260?

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10 minutes ago, Dtsuave said:

Because the will send to the address stated on the ds 260?

 

11 minutes ago, Dtsuave said:

we will send your Green Card to the mailing address you provided at the time of your visa interview, OR upon admission to the United States

Look at the OR. They are saying they'll send to the address mentioned on DS260 or the address provided at the POE. If you provide a new address at POE, your GC will be sent to that address.

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2016-07-06: DS-260 Submitted

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2017-08-01: Entry to US

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2 minutes ago, arken said:

 

Look at the OR. They are saying they'll send to the address mentioned on DS260 or the address provided at the POE. If you provide a new address at POE, your GC will be sent to that address.

Thank you for replying . That means that my brother should wait to get to the POE and ask for updating the address. So AR 11 change of address Is not necessary now? Thank you 

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18 minutes ago, Dtsuave said:

Hi i was helping him about doing this step first changing online but the instructions says : If you entered the United States on an immigrant visa, we will send your Green Card to the mailing address you provided at the time of your visa interview, or upon admission to the United States.  If you change your address after arriving in the United States, please update your address.

 

so basically they’re saying to wait until arriving to US ? Because the will send to the address stated on the ds 260?

You can change that address before coming and also upon entry at the CBP. Essentially you want to increase you chances of the new address being reflected with the USCIS.

These are how you can increase your chances:

1. If you already paid $220 immigrant fee, you should have received a receipt number. Use that receipt number to update address with AR-11.

2. If you haven't done so already create a myUSCIS account, and update your I-551 profile (which is connected to your immigrant fee receipt number) with your new address. 

3. When you touch down in the US, ask the CBP to update your address for you. Sometimes they forget to ask so you'll have to be proactive and inform them to update it for you.

 

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8 minutes ago, Dtsuave said:

Thank you for replying . That means that my brother should wait to get to the POE and ask for updating the address. So AR 11 change of address Is not necessary now? Thank you 

Yes, you can choose to only update at CBP if it's your wish.

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16 minutes ago, nastra30 said:

You can change that address before coming and also upon entry at the CBP. Essentially you want to increase you chances of the new address being reflected with the USCIS.

These are how you can increase your chances:

1. If you already paid $220 immigrant fee, you should have received a receipt number. Use that receipt number to update address with AR-11.

2. If you haven't done so already create a myUSCIS account, and update your I-551 profile (which is connected to your immigrant fee receipt number) with your new address. 

3. When you touch down in the US, ask the CBP to update your address for you. Sometimes they forget to ask so you'll have to be proactive and inform them to update it for you.

 

In the AR 11 they ask: in United States as :

Permanente resident, visitor,student other.

 

My brother needs the stamp to be a permanent resident so which choice should I pick?

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2 hours ago, Dtsuave said:

In the AR 11 they ask: in United States as :

Permanente resident, visitor,student other.

 

My brother needs the stamp to be a permanent resident so which choice should I pick?

Wait a few more hours and "permanent resident" can be chosen. It's not gonna make a difference filling it now or after he ka ds in the US. The most important part is giving the correct address at POE. 

Spouse:

2015-06-16: I-130 Sent

2015-08-17: I-130 approved

2015-09-23: NVC received file

2015-10-05: NVC assigned Case number, Invoice ID & Beneficiary ID

2016-06-30: DS-261 completed, AOS Fee Paid, WL received

2016-07-05: Received IV invoice, IV Fee Paid

2016-07-06: DS-260 Submitted

2016-07-07: AOS and IV Package mailed

2016-07-08: NVC Scan

2016-08-08: Case Complete

2017-06-30: Interview, approved

2017-07-04: Visa in hand

2017-08-01: Entry to US

.

.

.

.

Myself:

2016-05-10: N-400 Sent

2016-05-16: N-400 NOA1

2016-05-26: Biometrics

2017-01-30: Interview

2017-03-02: Oath Ceremony

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