what does I-551 stamp look like..for CR-1

[greeneclipse 0]

Can someone please confirm what the I-551 stamp is for a CR-1 entry?

my wife only recieved one stamp, and it reads:

"Alien has been notified of the provisions of section 216 and of the procedures for having the conditional basis of his/her status removed"

Is this the "stamp" that everyone is taking about? Can she travel with this?

Also, the CR-1 visa says : "upon endorsement serves as a temporary I-551 evidencing permanent residence for 1 year"

thanks

[YuAndDan 153]

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[greeneclipse 0]

her's doesn't have a date on it though... just says :

"Alien has been notified of the provisions of section 216 and of the procedures for having the conditional basis of his/her status removed"

[Flames9_RN 358]

Mine just has a stamp " US Immigration HTM admitted with the #220 on one side, and the #4001 on another and the date.

[Mononoke28 134]

My husband's stamp looks just like the one YuAndDan has. It has the date of expiration along with his A #.

Diana

[YuAndDan 153]

It can varry by POE, I would wait a month or so for green-card in the mail, and if it fails to show up by then, then schedule an info pass and ask about it.

Same goes for SSN, wait to days, and then apply for a card from SSA if it fails to arrive.

[Chris Parker 11]

No special permanent resident admission stamp for us (IR-5, no conditions applicable).

Just the usual "USDHS-Admitted" stamp on the facing page without any class or expiration date written.

Stamp is identical to the stamp placed in U.S. passport and the foreign passports of returning residents.

Immigrant visa in this way has been accepted as a temporary I-551 everywhere thusfar, but the admission stamp on the facing page as a so-called "endorsement" is less than what I would have expected.

[Chris Parker 11]

It can varry by POE, I would wait a month or so for green-card in the mail, and if it fails to show up by then, then schedule an info pass and ask about it.

Same goes for SSN, wait to days, and then apply for a card from SSA if it fails to arrive.

Our SSN based on the DS-230 has the date of 01/30/2007 printed on the bottom (we arrived 01/26/2007). According to the SSA, that is precisely when the electronic data from the visa should be processed by SSA---2 business days after admission.

My advice, if you want to possibly have an SSN very quickly, is to apply for the card on the DS-230, but also go into the SSA office as soon as you normally would. By the time you admission is entered into SAVE, SSA should have a SSN card either pending or already issued, or it is not going to come at all. The only way to check the status of SSN is go into the office with the SS-5 application marked "Don't Know", and if they find no record, they will process the application, and if the DS-230's Enumeration-at-Entry (EAE) SSN application subsequently arrives, it will not be processed.

On the other hand, if it matters to you, you may not want to use the DS-230 to apply for the SSN if you don't want to get an SSN which could be used to identify you as an immigrant forever---this is because the first three (3) digits of SSN's issued through the EAE process aways begin with 729-733 rather than the usual state codes determined by the ZIP Code of the mailing address for the original card. The SSN area codes are public information available from SSA here: http://www.socialsecurity.gov/employer/stateweb.htm. It is unclear why SSA has chosen to use a special area code for EAE applications, but continues to use the ZIP code of the mailing address for Enumeration-at-Birth (EAB) SSN's which are processed similarly in all other respects except with state birth certificate data from vital registration offices (state code for EAB's is not based on the state of birth either).

Edited February 6, 2008 by Chris Parker