Bill Hamze

My wife (the IR1 visa holder), our kid, and I went to the CBP together at our POE. I let my wife answer the questions while I just handed over our passports. It was a breeze compared to the CO interview (which was also easy). The CBP just asked about our address and said to call if the GC doesn’t come within 90 days.

I made the same mistake on the petition by listing what I thought was my city of birth when my birth certificate actually showed a different (but adjacent) city. I let it slide and nobody said anything.

Update: this time they accepted my address change and sent me a notice to confirm. With my wife’s GC now in hand, we’re all set now.

GC delivered today July 22 - 52 days after POE I wasn't in town to pick up the mail, but my mom did and confirmed with me.

Status changed to “card picked up by USPS” and even provided the tracking number. Should arrive Saturday. Just hope they sent it to the right address that we confirmed at POE.

Card is being produced as of July 17

I mailed it back along with a letter explaining that there is no online option. I included dates when I moved, when I filed it, when UCSIC received it the first time. I made it clear as a bell so that a second grader can understand it.

Whole thing is absurd. I’ll scan their boilerplate letter for my records, slap a note on it saying there’s no online option so I’m resending it as per form instructions, which were explicit.

Yeah, please do. Anyhow, I’ll keep the returned mail as evidence (safely under lock & key) that I DID file in case someone starts asking questions.

I filed a change of address by printing and filling out a I-865 form and mailing it by certified mail a month ago. I followed these instructions: https://www.uscis.gov/i-865 - and sent it to the correct service center. Today I get mail from USCIS and it turns out they sent it back with a boilerplate letter basically saying "the information you seek is available online blah blah" and that "the Vermont service center will continue to accept paper correspondence for [a limited set of forms of which I-865 is not included]" But there's no way to file the i-865 online. The instructions specifically say to print it and mail it to the service center corresponding to your location. On the other hand, it shows the right address on the letterhead, and there was no forwarding label on the envelope. So it seems they know my new address. What gives? USCIS can be so irritating.

Exactly 30 days, no GC. Status still says “IV fee payment received” What will the case status look like when they finally get around to processing the GC?

POE: June 1, 2022 SSN received: June 10, 2022 (9 days later) GC: still waiting, can take up to 90-120 days

Bringing this thread back up - having the same problem. 3 times in a row. How did you get around this?

And that’s what we did, the new address was already in the officer’s system, which gave us peace of mind. The CBP was also nice, she processed us together as a family. Whole thing took just a few minutes.

Wife already has IR-1 visa, and we filed an address change. Leaving for the US tomorrow. Last week, we tried to set up an account for her on USCIS so we can track her green card. But when we tried linking her IOE receipt number (from when we paid the IVF Green Card fee), it asked us for an access code. We never got an access code in the mail. It wasn’t on our 797 either. There was an option to request a new access code, so we did that. Just got an email from USCIS saying: ”After careful review, we were unable to generate a new Online Access Code associated with the Receipt Number you have provided. Please ensure you have provided the correct Receipt Number and/or email associated with your case and that the old Online Access Code is not already in use.” Well, now what? What should we do? I’m thinking we have to call, but I totally dread getting on the phone with them.