Existing Alien number

[Gstrength1 0]

Hello:

i need help before I finish my process. i used to live in new york for many years, I had a green card. I had two daughters born in new york. We went back to argentina, lost my status. Fast forward many years and my daughter all grown up and living in the states wants me to come and live with her.

she filed I-130, was approved and now we are at the consular stage, just paid the fees for aos and IV, we have not started to fill out the application yet, because , I just realized she did not enter my previous Alien registration number and i know that number is a lifetime identifier. My niece, which never lived in the states, had her number assigned at The NVC stage, with her visa. What would you suggest I do so i dont get another number and prevent problems in the future

[Lil bear 4,656]

39 minutes ago, Gstrength1 said:

Hello:

i need help before I finish my process. i used to live in new york for many years, I had a green card. I had two daughters born in new york. We went back to argentina, lost my status. Fast forward many years and my daughter all grown up and living in the states wants me to come and live with her.

she filed I-130, was approved and now we are at the consular stage, just paid the fees for aos and IV, we have not started to fill out the application yet, because , I just realized she did not enter my previous Alien registration number and i know that number is a lifetime identifier. My niece, which never lived in the states, had her number assigned at The NVC stage, with her visa. What would you suggest I do so i dont get another number and prevent problems in the future

While A Numbers are sometimes used for other visas in your life .. sometimes a new A number is issued during by the process. We provided our initial A numbers ( from a previous GC through work)  during our later IR5 applications, but were issued a new number anyway. They already will have you and your existing number matched so I don’t think there is anything  you either can or need to do. Moving forward through N400 , we used the most recently issued A numbers. No problems incurred at all