Gulskjegg

On April 10th, the USCIS online status said "Card Ordered to be Produced, contact us in 30 days if you dont get the card", just like yours.

But! Now the online USCIS has changed to "Approval Notice Sent", because we got an approval notice yesterday.

For God's sake, I WISH I had taken a screen shot of that "card ordered" page, because now I have no proof it was ordered. I just called the USCIS customer service line and they said they cant go back and check previous updates.

I have a bad feeling the USCIS made a mistake in telling me my card was ordered.

Has anyone else gotten an update of "card ordered", but never actually gotten the card? Sounds odd, but this IS the USCIS were talking about. They seem to derive great pleasure from yanking our collective chain.

I think the true impetus behind this shakedown was the feminist knee-jerk response to the skyrocketing amount of K-series visas, and the advent of the domestic "marriage strike" (google it, its real).

With 70% of all divorces initiated by the female, blood banks reporting 30% paternity fraud, 90% of all child custody disputes in favor of the mother, and the rabidly anti-father "family court", the slaves (men) have begun to jump the fence and head for greener pastures.

Basically, feminism is communism. If there is one thing communists hate, its competition on level ground. Part 2 of the attack was the IMBRA fiasco that requires men to file a police background check before they can so much as email a lady overseas. A blatant attack on our Constitutional right to free association.

Should any group of men stand up and point out the 757% increase in female prison inmate population since the 1970's, then demand that all marriage licenses in America have a mandatory requirement for background checks for females, the feminist shrieking would be monumentally ear shattering.

The foreign wife issue has the potential to "go viral", and the feminists know it. When I walk down the street with my foreign bride, men constantly stop and stare, and you can see the gears working in their heads. "How did this fat ugly SOB get such a hot wife?". Then they hear her accent and think, "Ah! He got a foreign wife...maybe I can too!".

Anyhow, if the U.S. gov't were SERIOUS about "fraudulent immigration", they would start with the 35+ million illegals tearing our middle class to shreds. But then again, you cant have communism without a huge peasant underclass. I just hope to be out of America before the "Plan of San Diego" kicks off. If you don't know what that plan is, here's a hint: "Every Norteamericano over sixteen years of age shall be put to death; and only the aged men, the women, and the children shall be respected"

One of the primary aspects in the original Constitution was the concept of "redress of grievances". Or, to petition the gov't over wrongdoings. Unfortunately, American is now a fascist dictatorship. The "justice department" (just us?) is in collusion with the corrupt administration and will do nothing to assist. Should you speak up too loudly, you will be put on the "terror database". Speak louder, and the police will beat you, tazer you, or maybe even kill you. If not, they toss you in jail for "assaulting a police officer" or if you are lucky you get thrown into a soviet style insane asylum because only crazy people think America is anything less then a glorious workers paradise.

I wouldn't trust a lawyer as far as I can throw one, because according (again) to the Constitution:

"If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall, without the consent of Congress accept and retain any present, pension, office or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them."

The problem with the above is, all lawyers are members of the "BAR", or "British Accredited Registry". Lawyers that pass "The BAR" are awarded the title of "Esquire" or "Shield Bearer", originating from the "Crown of the City of London". Were this a Commonwealth nation (UK, Australia, New Zealand, etc) you would have better luck. But this is America, where the gov't sees you (and treats you) as an enemy combatant and lawyers will only ask how much "justice" you can afford.

Hope that clarifies things.

I think you have been approved, and will get a letter or update soon. I guess it takes time to coordinate the letters, emails, and webpage updates. But anything that says APPROVED is probably all you need at this point. You are most likely in the process of final approval. Since this flurry of activity started a few weeks ago, I would give it about a month for things to settle down. But, again, I think you have been approved, they are just getting their ducks in a row over at USCIS. I would not be surprised if you got a letter or email soon saying card ordered.

Well, first off, our online status has changed from "your card has been ordered as of April 10" to "we have approved you and sent a letter on April 15". It seems the online status only showed "card ordered" for less then a week, and was bumped by the current and last "event", that being the letter.

On our letter, in the upper right hand side in the "CASE TYPE" box it says "APPROVED REMOVAL OF CONDITIONS (I89)". Does yours say the same? I doubt they would throw the word "APPROVED" around if they didn't mean it. But then again, this is the USCIS were talking about.

I am a bit upset that I didn't get a screenshot of the "your card has been ordered" notice, but that was my fault. I had hoped that if we didnt get the card within the 30 days, we could show up at the local office with the screenshot of "card has been ordered" and they would whip up a new card on the spot.

I can only hope we do indeed get the 10 year card in the mail before the end of the month. We have all been kicked in the teeth so many times we have become a bit gun shy. Everything it worst case scenario and a war mentality. That's not healthy, as everyone walks around in a state of confusion and fear.

To answer seaflower, we have gotten one email from USCIS, and that was a LONG time ago. Our file date was March 2007. Nebraska was our center.

Now, we got a letter dated MARCH 27 2008 that in the upper right hand side says "approved removal of conditions". Then, below it is a small sticky tape thingy slapped on that says "notice type - transfer notice". Looks like it was printed up and put on top of whatever is supposed to be in that box. I guess they wanted to kill 2 birds with one stone. In the main area, it says "we moved your claim to California".

Next, on the USCIS webpage it says APRIL 10, 2008 your card was ordered to be produced. So, it seems that CSC took a mere 2 weeks to approve our claim and order the card. This is not a glowing recommendation on Nebraska or USCIS in general. But, all in all, were happy to have the card on the way.

I am very angry at the amount of time we lost waiting for all this, and God only knows how many things we could have done over the last few years, but I guess its water under the bridge.

Moral of the story is, check the USCIS webpage and automated phone line every day, or a few times a day like we did.

Ok we just got a letter stating both that we were approved, and transferred to CSC. Card production was ordered on the 10th. If your file was transferred to CSC, you should expect to have it approved pretty soon. Be sure to check status online as well.

Were happy we got a letter, because before this we had gotten no emails or letters. Now we know USCIS has our correct address and is only somewhat likely to send it to the wrong house.

We filed the I-751 back in March of 2007. Biometrics was within 3 months or less, if I recall. As of April 10th, USCIS reports that my wifes 10 year green card has been ordered produced. A tad more then a year from start to finish.

Makes you wonder what the hell these USCIS people do all day.

No letter, no email. I called the USCIS customer service line and was told my wifes 10 year green card had been ordered produced. The online status also changed. USCIS did not communicate with us, we did all the checking.

Well, at face value, you filed your I-751 a few weeks before us. You also had the bad luck of having it go to Nebraska. That is the bad news. The good news is your claim has been transferred, most likely to California. From looking at the responses, we can see that there are a good many people here that, once their claim was transferred, got an approval letter shortly after. My wife and I included in that list.

So, long story short, I would wait till the end of the month then call USCIS. Plus I would check your status online twice a day. I suspect you will be getting an approval notice very soon.

We got no letter, and no email. But my wife checks her status online, and it showed up there. On the 27th of this month, we had planned to send off her passport for a one year extension stamp. But, since her card was ordered to be produced on the 10th of this month, there is a chance we will get the actual 10 year green card before the 27th.

If you are like us and have gotten no emails and no letters, I suggest checking your status online or calling the information line.

No, our file date was march 2007, about a month before yours. Maybe give it a few weeks.

On one hand, we are happy its over, but its depressing to think of those that have gone longer then us with no result.

Well, since the card was ordered yesterday, maybe we should expect it before the end of the month...I hope. Thank you for the reply!

Ok, as of April 10, 2008 the card has been ordered. The phone line said "if you don't get the card within 30 days contact us". I suspect this is along the same lines as "I-751 processing takes 6 months" joke. Or, we will be lucky if we get the card before the end of 2008.

Question is, has anyone gotten notification, then gotten a card within 30 days? If not, has anyone gotten it in less then 30 days? Or is 60 days a more logical amount to plan for?

Thanks in advance!

I just called the USCIS customer service line. They said as of April 10, 2008 production of my wife's 10 year green card has been ordered and that it will arrive in 30 days. We filed in March of 2007. I will keep everyone updated if there is more progress, but as of now we are preparing to hit warp speed on "Operation: Get The Hell Outta America".

Hey that's not a bad plan. According to current feminist dogma, you probably wouldn't even need to break out the feather. None of us stands anything to lose, USCIS already has us over a barrel. It cant get any worse.

We just passed our 12 month mark, and our claim was transferred from Nebraska (AKA 9th Circle of Hell) to another service center. Were hoping for California. Regardless, we know it can take as long as 18 months, so were gonna file an N-400 next month so as to put the next 6 months to good use.

That one event shook us from our fantasy of "freedom" and into the reality of "prison". We have gotten one email from USCIS, nothing more. Phone calls are returned on a 50/50 basis. Cost are outrageous, by design. Decisions are arbitrary, at best. Your entire life hangs on a roll of the dice.

My wife and I constantly talk about all the things we COULD have done these last 3 years. Go back to Ukraine, spend more time in Canada, visit my relatives on the east coast. But no, we sit and wait for USCIS. I cant really work on expanding my business, because it would require travel or even relocation.

We have a strong marriage, but this is a time in our relationship we would very much like to put behind us. That being said, perhaps its like the military. You dream about the day you ETS, and you enjoy the freedom all the more. Ive alot of pent up energy that I plan to put to good use, so maybe its for the better.

Bingo! They did the same for us. But, ours was 2 days from the day we got the letter and we were at that very moment packing up the car to leave for a 6 month vacation in Canada.

Only after it was all over did we find out we could have called the local office and rescheduled the biometrics for a more convenient time for us. If there is a problem, you may want to call your local office. Our local office returns about 50% of our calls, which is spectacular customer service for the USCIS.

I called my local office and they said we can mail my wifes passport in for a 1 year extension stamp. We are authorized to do so on the 27th of April, 2008. It seems a fairly informal matter. That being said, I TOTALLY agree with you about USCIS passing out 3 to 5 year extension letters. I requested a 2 year extension and the local office refused, stating the maximum was 1 year at a time.

One of the Founding Fathers, I forget who, was asked what was the defining aspect of a police state. He thought about it and replied "When those that enforce the law exempt themselves from the law, you live in a police state". We see rules and regulations that we, the citizen, must follow explicitly when dealing with the USCIS upon threat of deportation, or worse.

Yet the USCIS is free to do what they want, when they want, for whatever reason they want, without consequence. Even if it means we and our families suffer or our hopes and dreams are ruined.

Sucks to be us.

Im right with you, NickD. The reason my wife and I stay, the only reason, is to get a 10 year green card or passport. My wife is from Ukraine, so her ability to travel with her current passport is severely limited. One aspect you may consider is attempting to get a job overseas. This will allow you to file an expedited N-400 request.

This thread is about removing conditions on residency that assumes the I-751 application, a burden put on us to assure to the USCIS that a US citizen did not marry an alien immigrant for the sole purpose of bringing that immigrant into this country.

So there are two parties involved, the US citizen and the alien immigrant, from reading other posts here, never sure who is posting is what!

When I met my wife, at first we developed a very strong platonic relationship, became for good friends and learned we had a very strong physical attraction as well, we knew we wanted to spend the rest of our lives together. I am the US citizen, she is the alien immigrant, and she had a daughter that also required a working relationship that was between just her and me. In other words, could we be a family.

We had a short discussion, key factor is that we all wanted to live together, but in her country or mine? As she was from Colombia with her family in that country, no relatives in Venezuela, and I have a very huge family here, we mutually agreed that she and her daughter would come here. Point is, this is my country, born here, served my country, and been paying taxes for years. So just natural that I handle the immigration details, I feel now that I am fighting to keep my family. So I took it upon myself to learn all about the procedure, this was done before we were married, I certainly was no expert in marrying an alien immigrant as the I-751 assumes. Also decided with the very poor grammar used in the immigration forms and that the very expensive fees for all the applications could be lost with one error to hire the best immigration law firm that I could find.

I just enlisted the aid of my wife in typing in those foreign kind of addresses to make sure they were accurate, an interesting note, the downloadable forms from the USCIS force you to use a fixed over sized font where you cannot fit everything in that small box they provide. The forms I received from my law firm let you reduced the size of the font so you could fit everything in and still very readable, but they were the same identical forms provided by the USCIS.

With all this jazz about the I-751, I took it upon myself to contact my congressman, senator, the USCIS, the Ombudsman form, after all, I am the US citizen. In our interviews, I did most of the talking just keeping my big mouth shut when questions were directed to either my wife or daughter.

If a law was broken by me marrying an alien immigrant just to bring her into this country, well, she would be deported and I would be in prison, so not only fighting for her, but actually fighting for myself. I am the assumed guilty party here trying to prove my innocence that seems to be just the opposite of what our US Constitution dictates.

With some of the hardships imposed, my wife and I have already discussed moving to a different country where both of us will be welcomed. Seems ironic to receive a form that both my wife and daughter received in separate envelops addressed to each, Welcome to the USA! Then to have to go through this entire procedure again, isn't this a flat contradiction? First, they are welcomed, then put in a position to prove that they are welcomed?

This entire procedure seems crazy to me and contradicts everything I learned about this country, and a country where I was forced to put my life down to defend. I never asked anything from my country, on the other hand gave everything to this country and never received anything in return. But I did ask my country if I could bring the woman of my most wildest dreams here, and her daughter, they told me it would cost me so much, and that I can, and told me how I can do it, and I said, okay. And I paid the price.

This whole I-751 and the problems and stress it has caused really has me asking, is it really worth staying here? We are talking about the most valuable entity here, my wife. My anger is high, but I keep that to myself and attempt to use logic and reasoning. Also not particularly fond that a number of our most recent leaders are draft dodgers and claim to be patriots of this once great country. My dad wasn't even around to send me to Harvard to avoid the draft.

The battle to keep my wife here is my battle, not hers, and I feel for those here that have to take steps to stay here instead of their US citizen spouses. My wife comes before this country, and whatever it takes, even leaving it, I am prepared to do. I feel that I have been let down by my country. And why in the hell do they get Veterans Day off?

Just FYI for the group, my wife checked her status online this morning and sure enough, her claim was transfered from Nebraska to God knows where. I assume California? We have yet to get an email or snail mail notification of this. Jenny, our claim is 12 months in, and we were about to contact the senator after the 27th. Since you are well beyond 12 months, you should consider talking to your senator.

Lets just agree we are all aboard the good ship USCIS Titanic, and its a bumpy ride.