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9 minutes ago, Delirium said:

It seems like the EO is targeting the 7 specific countries.

 

As a side note: I highly doubt the order barring current LPR's from those countries will remain intact for very long. It's already been blocked for now  

 

LPR's belong here. This is as much their home as it is my home as a natural-born USC . LPR's went through an incredibly mentally taxing and emotionally stressful process just to be here; the general public won't let them be kept from their home. 

The judge only stayed the removal of people (including greencard holders from those 7 countries) who were already here and being detained or in transit to the US. All others who have not boarded a flight are still blocked from boarding a flight home.

33 minutes ago, John Mercury said:

GC holder are classified as alien residents 

Exactly - this is why Trump needs to better explain his intention with the EO. There is no distinction in the order between resident and non-resident aliens.

1 hour ago, wheresmykoala said:

 

I don't see why it would have any affect as you're already a permanent resident  Seems like it's only going to affect people who are in the process of coming over on a visa, such as a K-1, from those selected countries. They'll have to wait until the 90 day ban ends before they can enter on their visas, or at least that's how I understood it. 

The EO uses the word "Alien" - anyone who is not a Citizen technically falls into that category. If I was a GC holder from one of those countries listed I would not being going anywhere until there is some clarification.

Some news outlets are reporting that the order will suspend the entire visa waiver program 

No advice, but perhaps https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/AFM/HTML/AFM/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-1067/Chapter10-22.html will help.

No nothing like that on the envelope, just a plain priority mail envelope. You would not know it was from USCIS without opening it. Even the approval notice in an official USCIS envelope was forwarded by USPS.

Yay card arrived today, envelope was a mess.

Wow, you would think usps could make it simper to forward mails. Just as a side note, a few years back USCIS used to print "do not forward , return to sender if undeliverable" on all outgoing envelops containing permanet resident cards. I don't know if that is still the case, but if it is then that would explain why USPS didn't forward the envelope containing your new card the 1st time around. In the event this upcoming 2nd forward is still unsuccessful or gets returned to the old address again, you could ask your old neighbor to put it in a new envelope with your new address (the postage and tracking fee can be pre-paid by you online). Good luck, and hopefully that 2nd forward worked.

Thanks. USPS forwarded my approval letter (it arrived with a yellow forward address label), and the envelope just has the USCIS logo on it, nothing that says do not forward or return service request. I do wish my neighbor had just put it in a new envelope, but I was just thankful she went and got it for me lol. I'll keep everyone updated, hopefully it will arrive soon...

Well I still don't have my GreenCard thanks to USPS. The approval letter was forwarded to my new address by USPS, it was sent August 30th and I only got it yesterday. My card was delivered to my old address, my neighbor picked it up and took it to the post office, it was sent out and after a week ended up back at my old local post office in New York. So it was forwarded again on Monday (thank goodness I called and the lady got her hands on it before it was delivered again). This time the tracking shows a forward, so hopefully it will arrive here in Texas shortly.

My approval notice was signed by the Buffalo office and it is on official USCIS paper (like the NOA), not on a simple white sheet of paper.

The timeline? I'm on my phone and it's opening all distorted lol. Oct21? I sent Oct 23 and nothing yet.

My NOA was 10/22. Don't worry I am sure you will hear something soon! There seems to be no logical order to how things are processed

I did get an email confirming my change of address was processed. Clearly was not applied to the card production order for the ROC.

The timing to be honest was a bit of a mess. I got the original approval update online on August 31st. I changed addresses with USCIS on August 30th. So literally it all happened at once. Not transfer and as of yet the greencard is the only thing that has been physically sent out. My neighbor has it in her possession and confirmed the tracking number to me.

No doubt the approval letter has been returned to USCIS who will then hopefully send it to the correct address once they see my change of address in the system.

No worries ask as many questions as you want!

Do u mind me asking when did u apply for ROC?

Look at my signature

I submitted my change of address on August 30th and I got the email confirmation it was "changed" September 2nd. My greencard was sent September 7th (I think that is what USPS tracking said, their system is down so I cannot double check).

I found out by looking at the tracking - it said it had been left in the mailbox in my old town.

So my card was mailed and was sent to my OLD address in New York (we are now in Texas). The envelope was left in our old mailbox, other mail sent before and after the card was automatically forwarded per our USPS change of address. Luckily my old neighbor went over and collected it (new owners have not moved in yet) and will forward it on to me.

Congrats!! Is the only tracker available this one: https://egov.uscis.gov/casestatus/landing.do

Or is there one I don't know about? I keep seeing the same thing since I sent in my papers

Yep that is the official one.

How exciting, I logged into USCIS expecting to see the same old message and found:

Nothing here either. The VSC processing date has been updated to August 3rd on the USCIS website.

Hi Guys,

Any movement on the Vermont filers ? Has anyone heard anything back yet?

Thanks

No

Lets hope Vermont transfers some cases to California...

It's a one year extension on your status as a permanent resident, i.e. 1 year from the date your green card expires.

The letter says "Your conditional resident status is extended for a period of one year" - my conditional status expired on January 18th 2016, USCIS extended that for a year so it now expires January 18th 2017.

If you have 401K beneficiary information then surely you would have filed a tax return. I imagine if you submit without a letter explaining the lack of tax returns you will get a RFE.

I would not put all your eggs in one basket. I would at least have a consult with a lawyer as a back up plan.

Has it actually been denied or did you get a notice of intent to deny. If it has truly been denied he'll likely be put into removal proceedings and will get a notice to appear in court. If it was me I'd be getting a lawyer asap.

When I was getting biometrics last week a lady arrived who was renewing her greencard - I overheard the officer at the biometrics counter say that she would extend her greencard while she waited for the new one to arrive. A few minutes later she called the lady back up to the desk and explained she'd extended the greencard and had put a "sticker" on the card to indicate that.

I wonder if they only do this for the 10 year cards? This seemed much more sensible than taking the card away and replacing it with a passport stamp - especially since you are supposed to always carry your card with you by law.

I wonder if VSC will transfer cases to CSC again soon, they seem to be so far behind...