ochocam

Speaking of applying for N-400, has anyone heard of anyone applying for it WITHOUT their green card on hand?

As previously stated in one of my posts, my wife's green card and extension letter were both stolen along with her wallet and purse.  She can't get a replacement green card (although I wouldn't want to pay the fee for it now since her I-751 is pending and she has an I-551 stamp anyways) because it was expired.  When she recently went to get her I-551 stamp renewed (she had one originally because her extension letter got lost in the mail), the officer at our local office told her to go ahead and apply and that her green card wasn't needed and that the application would just go to them anyways, however, the system stated that a scanned green card was part of the required documentation when we started the process online.

1 minute ago, ElliePro said:

@ochocam just out of curiosity - are you EAC as well? 

SRC.

Interesting.  The status on my wife's case was updated today.

It changed from "fingerprint review was completed" to "case was updated to show fingerprints were taken."

Anyone else seen that happen before?  It still said "review was completed" this morning so it happened sometime throughout the day today.

4 hours ago, prok said:

It’s just barely 48hrs now, I haven’t received their call yet. However, the first infopass appointment I tried booking, earlier last month, they did call me back and told me I had to wait till a 30 days window to expiration of my initial I-551 stamped last year ,2018. So when I called again this month, they gave me item # and a phone that will call me back. It is not up to 72hrs yet, so I am still waiting. I hope they call, they always keep to their words. Once I hear from them, I will surely update that here. If you chatted with them, you can’t get the phone number wrong, if yours is above 72hrs and they didn’t call, I believe your card is on it’s way. If your case is already approved, I think they won’t want to schedule you for stamping anymore. Good luck 

Welp - it's been 72 hours and we received no phone call.  We decided to go the "Ask Emma" route and we spoke to an online representative.  It's a lot better having everything in writing for sure than trying to understand someone over the phone.  She had to be placed BACK into the scheduling queue and now our 48-72 hour wait begins again.  I'm not sure what happened - we received no explanation but we didn't want to question or push the issue.  Her I-551 stamp expires December 9th, and she's a teacher, so we were trying to get her in next week while school is closed for Thanksgiving Break.. hopefully we can get that accomplished.

The representative did tell us though that she'll still be able to get another I-551 stamp, even if the current one expires, because her green card was stolen earlier this year, she still has a pending I-751, and we also have a police report to show that her purse and wallet were stolen.

4 minutes ago, prok said:

It’s just barely 48hrs now, I haven’t received their call yet. However, the first infopass appointment I tried booking, earlier last month, they did call me back and told me I had to wait till a 30 days window to expiration of my initial I-551 stamped last year ,2018. So when I called again this month, they gave me item # and a phone that will call me back. It is not up to 72hrs yet, so I am still waiting. I hope they call, they always keep to their words. Once I hear from them, I will surely update that here. If you chatted with them, you can’t get the phone number wrong, if yours is above 72hrs and they didn’t call, I believe your card is on it’s way. If your case is already approved, I think they won’t want to schedule you for stamping anymore. Good luck 

Boy, I love your optimism!  That would be great if the card was on the way.  We're signed up for USPS Informed Delivery and I haven't received a notice about anything coming yet, nor has the case status been updated (although apparently that hasn't mattered for a few posters before us).  We'll see..

I'll touch back when/if we hear back from someone today.

On 11/18/2019 at 11:05 PM, prok said:

Wow! Then I have to closely monitor my mails, I chatted with USCIS today, I was connected to live rep. I requested to be booked an infopass as the previous one expire soonest. She gave me an item number and told me I will be called on a certain phone. Today makes exactly 13 months of my ROC acceptance. Still hanging on patiently waiting.

Have you heard back from a USCIS officer yet?  My wife called on Friday to try to get an InfoPass appointment scheduled and they told her she would receive a call within 48-72 hours.

Still no call yet so we're hoping they didn't mess up on her phone number or something like that.

7 hours ago, ochocam said:

I feel like we might be in the same situation somewhat.  I'm signed up for USPS Informed Delivery and I can see that we're receiving a letter from the TSC today.

 

Case status on USCIS's website says: "As of May 25, 2019, we completed our review of your fingerprints and are working on your Form I-751"

Case status on the My USCIS website says: "You do not need to do anything at this time"

Tracker app says: "fingerprint review was completed"

 

My wife also received a notice that they would reuse her fingerprints and that there was no need for a biometrics appointment.  It's nice to see progress actually happening but it's kind of a bummer to be told that it was a mistake now.

 

Yup - it was a notice for biometrics.  My wife has an appointment on October 31st now at 2:00 PM.  Kinda' sucks because she's a teacher and it's a little difficult for her to get a substitute but thankfully she'll only miss two classes.

On 10/19/2019 at 1:58 PM, Patsyuchok said:

Texas filer here (case sent October 29, fingerprint fee accepted Nov 6, SRC 199XXXXXXX)

Today (October 19) I received a biometrics letter from USCIS asking to do biometrics on October 30.

 

This is interesting, because back in January 2019 I got a notice that my biometrics will be reused, and my status changed to "Fingerprint review completed". My case status did not change, nor did I get any electronic notification about this. Also, in case tracker, my status is still "Fingerprint fee received".

I feel like we might be in the same situation somewhat.  I'm signed up for USPS Informed Delivery and I can see that we're receiving a letter from the TSC today.

Case status on USCIS's website says: "As of May 25, 2019, we completed our review of your fingerprints and are working on your Form I-751"

Case status on the My USCIS website says: "You do not need to do anything at this time"

Tracker app says: "fingerprint review was completed"

My wife also received a notice that they would reuse her fingerprints and that there was no need for a biometrics appointment.  It's nice to see progress actually happening but it's kind of a bummer to be told that it was a mistake now.

My wife and I filed for her ROC back toward the end of October 2018.  We received a notice dated May 25, 2019, stating that they had completed the review of her fingerprints and that they were working on her I-751.  It has now been 143 days since that last notice.

We had really high hopes that she might get approved before Christmas but I doubt that will happen.  Her purse got stolen a couple of months ago which obviously had her expired green card in it.  Thankfully she didn't have the extension letter in there as well at the time.  Now we anticipate not being able to travel to see her family in Canada for the holidays and for them to see our baby because we're paranoid she won't be allowed entry back in - even with a police report, a pending I-751 stamp in her passport, and the extension letter.