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card on hand - everything looks fine!

Card mailed email notice from USCIS today

I-90 approval e-mail notice from USCIS today

Card/ Document Production e-mail from USCIS

so, apple21 - did you receive the card? is it the 2 years - conditional one?

does it indicate in any way that you got the conditional status?

Congrats apple21!!! Had my 2nd biometrics done yesterday (10/31/14) code 1- the first was code 2.

They have it all, but perhaps lazy to get the info from other databases - unhappy with this process...

Biometrics Codes

Normally, an ASC Biometrics Notice would contain (in the top right area), a field named “Code.” The “Code” field is intended to indicate the type of biometrics processing to be performed. The possible values are:

• Code 1 – fingerprinting only (10 prints);
  
• Code 2 – biometrics (photo, signature and index finger);
  
• Code 3 – fingerprints (10 prints) and biometrics (photo, signature and index finger).
  

USCIS has indicated that the applicable code for each biometrics appointment is determined based on the type of an application and certain relevant case factors.

http://www.cilawgroup.com/news/2012/01/12/biometrics-codes-and-reusingtransferring-biometrics/

Its an unnecessary delay to entire process

appointment letter received - I do see code 1 on this one. I checked the first notice and that one was code 2 but the person who run the process first time hand wrote code 3...

BTW, how was the 2nd appointment? was it legit or they had no idea why you had to go through it again?

no notice received yet but the IO told that in the system seems like is Oct 31

This is going to be fun fun fun.... called the IO again and they still don't have an answer. They will call me with an answer before Oct 31st.....

I had code 3 at my first appointment. By oct 16, according to IO, I should now if my appointment was done in error or if it is really required...

I did and they open a service request with NBC as even the L2 support IO couldn't tell if this was legit or done in error. According to the IO this was a request for picture only but couldn't tell much from the notice.

Apple21 - did you receive the notification letter yet? Is it for fingerprint + picture or just picture or smth else?

second biometric notice too -

Thanks! Very helpful!

If it goes out of hand, i would contact my congressman/Senator if i were you and ask their office staff to get this sorted out. I have requested their help in the past when USCIS screwed up my PD in their system and repeated questions to confirm the PD in their system went nowhere and had to involve my congresswoman to find that and fix the issue.

Had to file FOIA and wasted about 2 months to get an answer from USCIS and when i went to my congresswoman, problem was found and fixed in a week.

What's a good way to contact the senator/congressman? Any samples from past experience?

Today went to the infopass appointment where I stamped my passport for another year. the IO mention that C21 is no where mentioned in the system and even if I didn't file to correct the problem I would never had a problem later. And the fact that C21 is not mentioned in the system makes this case an unusual one for USCIS IOs and confusing. He agreed that what I'm doing is the right thing, at least from moral perspective, but wasn't necessary.

Anyway, he gave another year in my passport and hand-wrote the category as C21 but mentioned that he can't change that in the system, only the service center supervisor can. Was bizarre to him that USCIS might have lost my original GC.

Also today the online status changed from Case Reopened to Request for Evidence Response Review. They received my response on Sept 30 and they only opened the envelope today...

this time you have to smile at biometrics

The IO, which was super nice, great communicator, he opened a service case in order to find out if the card was found and if they actually received the RFE response. Also he mentioned on the service request the reason why the form was initially filled and he agreed that was a USCIS error but the error is not visible in the system....

Perhaps, not sure. I was expecting "Request for Evidence Response Review" not case reopened as the case was never closed. On hold with L2 support again. Curios what they will have to say...

status update:

my point wasn't their happiness but government obligation to inform its residents about their correct legal status and the burden is not in the resident to research laws and understand and interpret laws, so even if we didn't filled out forms to correct an USCIS error you should had been fine as perhaps a condition was not reflected on the system.....

They have not changed the online status yet to reflect that the RFE response was received.

And that's what I was trying to avoid, later complications, but if your immigrant visa has a category of F21 and after you enter US the CBP officer still admits you as F21 and GC comes as F21 (as in my case) then there is no condition created in the system. If somehow one of the above categories was C21 and others were F21 then I can see that we have a conditional record in the system, but if C21 is not mentioned or written in any category then we are asking USCIS to create one in the system for us, which is the right thing to do, but if we don't do this its not our fault either as as a common immigrant person we are not held responsible for knowing immigration laws. Even common citizens don't know these laws. Just ask a common person and I bet they don't know. So its up to the government to inform us about our status and explain what that means. If that doesn't happen (as the law demands too) then a common person, by default, should trust and not second-guess a government produced document. I think we are creating more work for USCIS to actually create a condition for us in the system and perhaps they are not happy that we are second-guessing them, where they don't think a mistake has been made.....