Green Card for New Immigrant with IR1

[Lari 0]

Hello All,

My husband came last month on IR1 visa. We have not heard anything more from USCIS, like the welcome letter or green card. I wonder if we have to notify them or something. I assumed that that is authomatic and we need not do anything. Please advise what we should do now? Contact USCIS for GC? Basically how long it takes before you get any notification from USCIS after coming? Thanks.

[aussiewench 9]

If it's been 4 weeks or more since entry and he hasn't yet received the green card he should make an InfoPass appointment with your District Office. You can find your District Office details on the uscis.gov website.

Edited July 18, 2006 by aussiewench

[Lari 0]

If it's been 4 weeks or more since entry and he hasn't yet received the green card he should make an InfoPass appointment with your District Office. You can find your District Office details on the uscis.gov website.

Thanks, but what is usually to be done after entry? Did we need to notify USCIS from his arrival? Do we need to file something or just wait for them. I just wonder if we are doing what we are supposed to do. So what is the usual and normal procedure? Thanks!

[zyggy 9]

If it's been 4 weeks or more since entry and he hasn't yet received the green card he should make an InfoPass appointment with your District Office. You can find your District Office details on the uscis.gov website.

Thanks, but what is usually to be done after entry? Did we need to notify USCIS from his arrival? Do we need to file something or just wait for them. I just wonder if we are doing what we are supposed to do. So what is the usual and normal procedure? Thanks!

You have to do nothing... the paperwork to generate the GC was done at the POE. However, sometimes files get misfiled before your GC was generated. You need to make an Infopass appointment to get things straightened out...

[Kez/JWolf 6]

Infopass is the way to go......

Kezzie

[Lari 0]

Thanks!

[louandmikek3 0]

I didn't receive anything until my green card arrived, around 5/6 weeks after I arrived. It will be on its way soon!

[kiwimcclung2 0]

I received both my 10 year Green Card and Welcome to USA letters within two weeks of arriving in Texas.

Cheers,

Suzanne

[Fischkoepfin 1]

I got the first letter after 3 weeks (3 more were to follow) and the greencard after about 4 1/2 weeks. Since the stamp in the passport serves as a temporary greencard, you might want to wait a little longer before contacting USCIS.

[Lari 0]

I think SFO is taking a little longer. I called USCIS customer services just to be sure they got all the info correct. She told me that they got it all and we should wait atleast 60 days like till mid August. That is just OK. I was just wondering if we needed to do inform USCIS or file something... now I know, we just have nothin to do but wait Thanks to All.

[A-PhiJill 0]

Dave got his like 3.5 weeks after entry (see timeline below)