gringoconmexicana

My wife's card came in the mail today. They even sent her a little card holder.

Good luck to the rest of you. Glad I'm done dealing with USCIS for a while.

We got an E-mail today saying my wife's application was approved. Now comes the part where we hope USCIS sends it to the right address. The temporary green card that we just had conditions removed from was never received. USCIS lost it and tried its best to charge us for its error. Hopefully they don't mess it up again.

It says to wait 30 days on the E-mail notice but it looks like, from Visajourney forum posts, that people are receiving their cards less than a week after approval.

Gringo

Hi gringoconmexicana! Which service center?

Sorry. California.

I know I'll foul up your system so I'm not going to even try putting our info on there. Sent our I-751 on Dec. 20, 2010, got the NOA1 dated Dec. 27, and had the bio appointment Jan. 18. Nothing since.

One district now translates to all of the teaching profession.

1. California's Ed Code is known to be messed up compared to other states.

2. The Bay Area public schools are also ranked among some of the lower districts (for the exception of some richer counties). It's the primary reason I didn't move back to teach there...knowing their districts aren't that great.

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How sad. Generalizing from one district to stereotype a whole profession. A job which most people like to point fingers at but wouldn't dare try spending one year doing it themselves in the hardest of conditions.

You're right. I've been teaching for about five years and still haven't met a teacher who didn't try his or her best. In fact, most of them voluntarily spend a lot of their salary on their classrooms.

We moved about a year ago. Filed the change of address forms, got confirmation. Blah blah.

Our ROC reminder still went to the old address. It made its way to us, with a letter from USCIS saying something like "your address has changed, please update it".

Funny thing is, they now have the right address,because they sent us the letter, AND we filed the forms ages ago. They just messed up.

Anyway, do we need to do anything other than file our forms at this point? They will obviously have the current address on them. Thanks!

We got the same message you got with the wrong address. USCIS is a joke.

If you figure out the answer to your question, please let me know. The whole change of address thing has cost us money and whole lot of time and worry.

Thanks for all the infor. How long is it taking for USCIS to cash the check after it is received from the post office?

With my luck as of late it probably is a big something. I would love to be able to report it was just a little missing something, that would delight me to no end...but because of what I've already experienced, I have a feeling it is something big that I have no control over, I am destined to be unhappy...and I'd rather die than be so...

I hope you aren't serious about the dying part. I'm frustrated as heck with the USCIS and all its idiocy. But, in the end, if it doesn't work out, I'll just move back to Mexico with my wife. If you love your husband so much that it's killing you, I'd suggest just ditching the states and going down south. America's not that much better. It certainly isn't worth being depressed over.

I filed my i-751 just at the end of my 90 days (foolish) . i mailed it a week before my greencard expired. They have reutrned my package stating that i only sent one check instead of two individual ones, i totalled amount for biometrics and fees. I am now ten days expired on my greenxcard. I am worried sick that when i resubmit they will deny because im outside my 90 days. Will they acknoledge that i sent original application on time or ??? i am terrified

I hate the USCIS. The directions say to file with one check covering the both the I-751 and the biometrics.

My wife has had issues with the fingerprinting machine as well. Each time she's had to go for prints, they ended up having to press down on her fingers to the degree of pain.

Hi Everyone,

Today I received a blue paper notice of action from USCIS, requesting to submit a signed affidavit regarding any criminal history, supported by police clearances or police records.

"USCIS reviewed your Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence and the supporting evidence. USCIS has been unable to obtain a required FBI criminal background clearance for you

because both sets of fingerprints were rejected as unclassifiable by the FBI."

I had my biometrics last Nov 2, only 2 fingers passed. The officer did a backup of ink finger printing (traditional). She told me, there are people like me who's finger print

could not be read, and that there's nothing I could do about it, its hereditary. Two years ago, when I applied for a conditional residence, I had to

go back and do the finger scan twice, for the same reason FBI/machine could not read. This time, she said in case they could not read the finger scan, we have

a back up copy. I've been praying everything would be ok, until today. I know I have nothing to worry, as I do not have any police records/criminal records. I called our county

sheriff office and they will issue a clearance, I just need to bring ID and the letter request from USCIS. The letter also stated I have until March 10, 2011 to submit requested

documents, upon receipt, it will take them a minimum of 14 days to process the form.

As for the affidavit of criminal history, can anyone please help me or give me an idea or a draft of the document.

Thank you so much. Will appreciate any input on this.

Manila

Can I ask which congressman that was? I would love that kind of help. What exactly does, DON'T OPEN IN THE MAIL ROOM, signify besides the obvious? Why did that work? I never heard that from anybody.

I've had the "lost" card issue as well, though I was CR-1, not AOS - same thing anyways.

GC never showed up and after 5 months my husband contacted his congressman and one senator.

Senator said tough luck pay up, congressman assigned immigration aide to the case and she regularly followed up with us and USCIS. First time we sent I-90 under never received option it got returned for not paying the fee even though we followed USCIS instructions saying don't send payment (and we questioned why to pay for something already paid for and which they failed to produce - no proof of ever creating let alone mailing the green card on their side and we did our due diligence with post office who USCIS tried to blame for 'non-delivery' - nothing to deliver if you haven't produced it). As soon as we received the rejection notice on the non-payment of the fee I scanned the notice and emailed to the aide. Within two days I had further instructions that she received from USCIS - we had to put someone's name on the envelope with DON"T OPEN IN THE MAIL ROOM on it. This time, it went through without a hitch and less than two weeks later I had my green card, very close to my first anniversary of POE.

We made sure to have the aide in the loop when we did ROC so we don't get another no-show GC situation, and we were done with ROC very fast - I think CSC was very fast on approvals.

Has your senator's office, been able to offer any insight as to why your I-90 keeps being denied, and why you're having to 'fight' so hard?

There's a box to check for claiming the card was lost, stolen, or destroyed. When I checked this box, I was required to pay the fee or request a fee waiver. This, contrary to what USCIS officers had told me, was the wrong box to check. Because of this, many of my I-90 applications were rejected (which is different than denied). None of the rejection notices mentioned this as the reason. The rejection notices were form letters that had nothing to do with my wife's case.

There's another box to check for claiming the resident card was never received. With this box, there is no fee and, therefore, a fee waiver request should not be sent. From the beginning, this is the box I should have checked, and I should not have sent in a fee-waiver request. That, I believe is where I went wrong originally. On the first denial, in which I used special directions given to my congressman by the USCIS regarding my wife's case, I never received a denial notice, nor an E-mail notifying me of a denial. I was only notified months later during an Infopass meeting regarding a related issue that the I-90 application had been denied. No reason was given for the denial.

On the latest denial, I, nor anybody yet knows why I was denied. I may or may not have a better understanding if and when I receive the denial notice in the mail. Anyway, I believe this all to be moot anyway. I won't need the green card to file the I-751, I hope. Obviously, based on nothing in the immigration process having gone correctly, I have serious doubts.

The way I understand your post(s), you have never received your wife's 2-year Green Card, yet when you submitted the I-90, USCIS informed you that you have to file for ROC?

More or less. The USCIS sent the request for the I-751 independent of what I was doing with the I-90.

Here's the deal, the OP has sent I-90 several times WITHOUT payment of fee citing never received green-card as in lost in mail. It is hard to prove lost in mail, so USCIS is treating the green-card holder as having lost the card.

In order to replace a lost card you need to pay a FEE.

I actually have proof of it. The USCIS sent me a letter saying they concluded it was lost in the mail. Prior to that, they sent me an E-mail saying they had sent me a letter that was returned to them. Within the letter regarding my wife's card being lost in the mail, the agency blames me for not filing an AR-11. But I did file AR-11s. And I have proof that, not only did I file the AR-11 and allign it with the application in process, but that I filed the AR-11 yet again, having done so the 2nd time after receiving the E-mail about the letter that was returned to the USCIS. In both cases, I filed the AR-11 more than a month before the application was sent.

I actually filed it a few ways, one was that I never received it, the other that it was lost. Those are 2 different boxes.

There was no way I was going to fork over $300 plus to request a new resident card, then rely on them sending me a new one to the correct address. They couldn't get it right the first two times they tried sending it to me.

As far as the rep in the Senator's office, he said, that according the information I gave him, I should have no problem filing for the I-751 because I have clear evidence to show that my wife was approved for a permanent resident card. The ombudsman for the USCIS said the same thing.

The Senator's rep was the latest to help me fill out the I-90, so I'm sure he would disagree with whatever reasoning the USCIS has for denying my wife the resident card replacement. But, he said, it would be pointless to fight the I-90 situation anymore now because the I-90 would just be a request for them to send me a card, so I can make a copy of it and send it back to them along with I-751. I might as well just skip that whole situation and file the I-751.

Believe it or not, a previous I-90 that was denied was filled out according to the exact directions sent by an unnamed USCIS higher-up to my congressman, who had been in communication with the immigration official on my wife's behalf. So even the USCIS gets denied by the USCIS.

Thanks for the replies, guys. I got what I needed to know. I don't need the greencard copies to file the I-571. I've verified this with a Senator's representative and an immigration ombudsman. It's contrary to what a USCIS officer told me, but we all know the way our shoestrings lie in the morning can tell us more about USCIS rules than anybody who actually works at the USCIS could.

As far as the rest, I've been fighting the USCIS for about 3 years now, from K-1, to entry point, to I-485, to work approval, to travel approval, to I-90, to stamp, to I-90, to stamp, to I-90, to I-90. Been in contact with the Senator's office and Rep's office, gone in on many infopasses, and have filed that I-90 every which way but loose and have been denied or rejected every time.

Did you send the I-90 fee?

No, I checked box B, for having never received the card. There is no fee associated with box B.

None of that matters though. I need to send in the I-751. I just wondered if anybody had applied for it without a copy of a green card.

Basically, if I send in the I-751 and get denied, I'm declaring bankruptcy and getting out of this country. I'm only here because my wife wants to live here at this point. And I'm a U.S. citizen.

Why was I-90 denied?

I don't know. I haven't received the letter. I only got the E-mail, which only told me it was denied.

According to a USCIS E-mail, my wife was denied yesterday on her I-90 request, asking the USCIS to send a card to replace the card they lost. I need to file the I-751 for her really quick. Yet, one of the requirements for the I-751 application is to send in a copy of the conditional resident card, which we never received and, apparently, never will receive.

I didn't get a chance today to call the USCIS 800 number, but, based on the myriad of contradictory directions they have given me in the past, I doubt it will help. Does anybody know what I should do? I really don't want to send in the I-751 and all that dough, which I had to beg for from family and friends, and get denied.

let's recap - an illegal can intentionally take their children on a dangerous journey through the desert, risking their life and that of the children - and the us government rewards that effort with legalization.

were a usc to do that, they'd be investigated by cps, have their kids taken away, and the usc would be facing fines and jail time.

Are you supporting U.S. citizens who take their kids on dangerous journeys through the desert? How exactly should they be rewarded? Similar to how illegal aliens are rewarded? What exactly is that reward? I have yet to meet an illegal alien who is living the good life in the U.S.

Do you not see that the motive for dragging a kid through a desert is quite a bit different for an illegal alien than it would be for an American citizen? The only way an American would need to sneak across the desert is if he is trying to sneak into Mexico. And, if some US citizen thinks the best way to get to Mexico is on some dangerous journey, then that person is probably in need of prison.

From what I have read about the Dream Act, it's not the illegal alien parents who would benefit. It would be the kids, who would get the blessing of dealing with the USCIS, a fantastic reward to be sure. Are you into punishing the kids beyond that?

I'm betting Ole gringoconmexicana has locks his house......in order to keep those he doesn't want, coming in.

Does he do that because he thinks he and his family are "Better people"?

What does locking my doors have to do with the Dream Act or the fact I think the USCIS is horrible?

And it's not just the USCIS, it's the whole DHS, or whoever mans the embassies that give out Visas.

Illegal immigrants, whether good or bad, come here illegally, not because they don't want to wait in line, but because they have no chance of coming here legally. If you're a rich white drug dealer from Mexico (I mention Mexico because I lived there with my wife for a few years), then the immigration officers in Guadalajara will likely give you whatever Visa you happen to be petitioning for that day. If you're brown and don't have money falling out your clothes, you aren't even going to get a Visitors Visa. You got no chance. So I have no problem with, at least in the case of Mexicans, people coming here illegally. I'd fear more the ones coming here legally on some visa that is not marriage-based.

Fix the legal immigration process so that it is fair, makes some sort of sense, and is run by somebody who is halfway accountable. Then I'll start getting upset about people coming here illegally. But, then again, nothing is going to be fixed, at least not in my lifetime.

As far as the Dream Act, if it is as it is described in the article, then I'm all for it. I didn't notice anything in there where it mentioned I'd need to stop locking my doors at night. But, then again, it won't pass. And, if it does, it won't matter. It's not like the USCIS is going to handle it well or anything.

And, yes, I'm jaded.

Yea. We wouldn't want to allow people with good moral character to be U.S. citizens.

I have nothing against people who come here illegally, especially nothing against the kids.

Who the government chooses to let in legally is all based on a bunch of nonsense governed by incompetent clowns anyway.

To go on thinking we're better people simply because we were born here, or were let in by whomever happened to be manning the USCIS mailbox that day, is ridiculous.

The whole change of address thing has been a disaster for me. My wife never received her permanent resident card because the USCIS kept sending it over and over again to the wrong address, no matter how many times I filed an AR-11 and called the 800 number. Eventually, the card was lost in the mail.

Now I'm to send in the I-751 without being able to send a copy of the resident card. Incidentally, the reminder to send in the I-751 was originally sent to an old address, before it was sent to my current one. Along with the reminder, they stuck in a letter about the importance of filing an AR-11 with a change-of-address. Somehow they managed, on second effort, to send that reminder to my correct address, so I guess they do know my address, they just choose to foul things up anyway.

I'm expecting a triple-whammy of rejection on the I-751. I'm sure it will be rejected due to having no evidence of a permanent resident card, that I won't get my money back, and that the rejection notice will be sent to the wrong address. The USCIS has turned me into a hardcore believer in Murphy's law.

Sweety's removal of conditions is coming up in the next few months and we are looking forward to it.

My main concern for the moment is we moved last March and we filed online an AR-11. We have the copy on file and printed, everything looked ok until last week. We received a letter from USCIS reminding us of our need to file I-751. How nice of them but the problem is they sent the letter to our old address. Hmm. I do a little search and find out I was supposed to file a I-865 as well.

I think better late than never in regards to the I-865 but what can we do about the AR-11 which was obviously never recieved or registered? Anyone else find themselves in a similar situation?

We just want this Removal of Conditions to go smoothly and don't want anyone to think that we "have been hiding out".

Thx

Hi. I've called the USCIS on this topic twice and been given two different answers.

My wife was approved for her permanent resident card and that, according to the USCIS, is set to expire in January. Of course, January wasn't the date of her approval, it was March, but whatever. The USCIS says it's January, so it doesn't matter what the facts are.

So now we are to file an I-751 to lift conditions. Unfortunately, the USCIS lost my wife's card before she ever received it. And, after a near infinite number of I-90 requests being rejected, the current one remains officially in process.

According to the directions for filing an I-751, one piece of evidence required is a copy of my wife's permanent resident card, which, obviously, she doesn't have.

Said one USCIS officer, in lieu of sending in a copy of the resident card, we can send in a copy of the stamp indicating the I-90 is in process, and the page of the Visa stating her name and birthdate and all that sort of information.

Unfortunately, after I hung up the phone, I realized my wife doesn't have her Visa anymore because the USCIS took away the Visa when they gave her the I-90-in-process stamp.

So, I called back again, asking about that. And the new USCIS officer said there is nothing written regarding sending anything in lieu of a copy of the permanent resident card. He said we just had to send a letter explaining why there is no copy of the permanent resident card. Based on the fact the USCIS has never once taken any of my letters into consideration for anything, I doubt this will work.

So, my question then is, has anybody sent in an I-751 without evidence of a green card? What did you send in lieu of a copy of the card. And how did that work out?

You do need a copy of the card to file for ROC. However, if you do not currently have a card, I've been told they accept a copy of the USCIS receipt letter that says you applied for a replacement. So no, you won't get around filing the I-90 for the replacement card first. (And the extra $310.)

I have the receipt letter for the I-90.