Husband lost Remove of conditions approval letter with extension

[Irishlover 2]

Hello,

My husband did the interview to remove conditions and biometrics in October 2013. He quickly received a letter in the mail stating that a year extension had been approved while the 10 year green card was being processed. Today my husband started a new job and went to look for that letter as verification of the extension since that is all he received and he cannot find it. Will he need this for his I-9? and if he does need it, how can we quickly get a new letter or confirmation of the extension so that he can complete his I-9?

Also, how long does it normally take to receive the actual 10 year green card?

Thank you so much!

He is seriously freaking out right now.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

The approval letter is not the extension letter. The extension letter is the NOA1, not the NOA2. The GC should come within 10 business days of "Card Production Ordered." If that is not enough, he can make infopass and get a I-551 stamp in his passport.

[Irishlover 2]

Thank you Harpa,

What is infopass?

And when you say The GC should come within 10 business days of "Card Production Ordered" I'm not sure what that means either? is
"Card production Ordered' a letter that we should have received?

All I know is that he received a letter a week or so after his interview an biometrics appointment in October 2013 that said, keep this letter as proof of a one year extension, while the 10 year green card is being processed, but there was no date that we would receive it.

Edited February 18, 2014 by Irishlover

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Infopass is the name for making an appointment to speak with an immigration officer at your local USCIS office. At uscis.gov there will be buttons to "schedule infopass."

[Irishlover 2]

And when you say The GC should come within 10 business days of "Card Production Ordered" I'm not sure what that means either? is
"Card production Ordered' a letter that we should have received?

All I know is that he received a letter a week or so after his interview an biometrics appointment in October 2013 that said, keep this letter as proof of a one year extension, while the 10 year green card is being processed, but there was no date that we would receive it.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

And when you say The GC should come within 10 business days of "Card Production Ordered" I'm not sure what that means either? is

"Card production Ordered' a letter that we should have received?

All I know is that he received a letter a week or so after his interview an biometrics appointment in October 2013 that said, keep this letter as proof of a one year extension, while the 10 year green card is being processed, but there was no date that we would receive it.

Okay.

So you said he had an "interview" and that his 10-year GC was "approved."

Now you say biometrics. Biometrics is not an interview.

Can you write out a timeline here? Because much is getting lost.

[Irishlover 2]

Thank you for your help.

He sent the package to remove conditions in, got an appointment for the biometrics, then I thought he had his interview that day too, which was October 2013. Then a week or so later we received a letter in the mail stating that the removal of conditions had been approved and that he was temporarily extended for a year, while the 10 year green card was being processed and to keep the letter as proof, since the stamp in his Passport is expired ( expired December 20th 2013). So now, he cannot find the letter that he was supposed to save and he needs to show proof that he is able to work since the stamp in his passport is expired.

This process is so confusing!

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

When did you send the package?

He did not have an interview at biometrics.

This also does not make sense: "removal of conditions had been approved and that he was temporarily extended for a year, while the 10 year green card was being processed and to keep the letter as proof"

When you are approved, you get an approval notice, and they mail you your green card.

When your initial package is accepted to be processed (you signed the forms and paid the fee), then you get an extension letter. The approval letter would not have an extension letter on it.

Can you fill in your timeline or make a timeline here? Have you read in the ROC forum or joined a monthly filers thread, to track the "parts" of the ROC process?

Edited February 18, 2014 by Harpa Timsah

[Irishlover 2]

I just updated my timeline.

Have not read the ROC forum or joined the monthly filers thread, because up until this point, I really had no questions about the process of removing conditions but I will look into those resources.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Okay, so the letter you got was the NOA1. It also serves as an extension of the GC for a year. It is just a good faith extension and protects people while their ROC is pending. It is a receipt that you filed ROC.

Then he had biometrics.

You have not yet been approved.

So, if he lost the extension letter, then he can make infopass and get a I-551 stamp in his passport (proof of his LPR status).

Good luck.

[Irishlover 2]

Thank you for your help

[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to Removing Conditions on Residency Discussion.

[Messybrownhair 251]

I never received my extension letter. USPS did not deliver it. I went to the local USCIS office, made an infopass appointment and got the stamp. I got it, but she only gave me one for 6 months, not a year. Told me that my greencard will most likely arrive before it expired, and she was right, I got it a month later.