Lost green card

[mugs 0]

My wife sent in the N-400 and got the biometrics for 12-9-09. I know the whole process takes about three months from biometrics to oath ceremony. The problem is she lost her greencard.

We see the solution (I-90 and fee, ouch!). What we're worried about is that she'll be waiting for the replacement greencard and so not have it when she goes to the interview and/or oath. If she doesn't have it will they turn her away and consider the N-400 process abandoned?

The biometrics app says she can postpone till 3-3-2010. With the waiting time for a greencard at about 3.5 months if she applies now she might just make it but that would be tricky.

[Sand 5]

I am not sure but i guess she need to file I90.

anyways seems ur local immigration office in Chula Vista. Well i know them u need to get that green card, they gave me a hard time. and i guess my N400 Interview will be there too.

Wait for the best Answer,

Good luck.

[jsnearline 2]

I don't think you have much choice except to file the I-90 and then bring the receipt notice for that to the biometrics appointment. It's better that showing up with no green card and no evidence you are trying to replace it.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

It beats me how someone can lose their passport, their green card, or their car titles, unless there was a huge fire in the house and even the safe got eaten up by it. Assume you have $20,000 cash at home; the green card needs to be right next to it as it is as important a document.

[jsnearline 2]

It beats me how someone can lose their passport, their green card, or their car titles, unless there was a huge fire in the house and even the safe got eaten up by it. Assume you have $20,000 cash at home; the green card needs to be right next to it as it is as important a document.

While locking it away in a safe would prevent someone from losing their green card, it also would put them in violation of the law. An immigrant is legally required to carry their green card with them at all times.

[NickD 203]

Hopefully she will find it, my wife seems to lose her ID cards for work or other things. One problem is, women seem to have too many purses, different colors and all that stuff, so at times she finds her ID one one of those many pockets in one of her purses.

I really don't know the legal requirements, but know my wife needed her green card just to get in the field office. Don't ask me how I do it, I drop her off at the door, just walk in and say my wife is inside without any problems. Then she had to trade her green card for her USC certificate.

Green card is worthless to anyone except the person that has their picture on it, hopefully it will turn up. Never liked that phrase, you must carry your card with you wherever you go. Does that include going to the bathroom at night?

[mugs 0]

Hopefully she will find it, my wife seems to lose her ID cards for work or other things. One problem is, women seem to have too many purses, different colors and all that stuff, so at times she finds her ID one one of those many pockets in one of her purses.

I really don't know the legal requirements, but know my wife needed her green card just to get in the field office. Don't ask me how I do it, I drop her off at the door, just walk in and say my wife is inside without any problems. Then she had to trade her green card for her USC certificate.

Green card is worthless to anyone except the person that has their picture on it, hopefully it will turn up. Never liked that phrase, you must carry your card with you wherever you go. Does that include going to the bathroom at night?

Yeah, I don't know how it happened. We're guessing that it's how the green card lives in our daily life. She didn't take it out all the time because we were paranoid of something just like this happening so we kept it in a safe place at home. However it did get taken out and put in her wallet when we thought someone might ask her for rock-solid identification (usually she uses her California ID) or when we needed to make a copy. I think it's in this transfering of one place to another that it got misplaced. Go figure! It's giving us an excuse/reason to go thru every slip of paper in the house!

Edited November 26, 2009 by mugs

[NickD 203]

Hopefully she will find it, my wife seems to lose her ID cards for work or other things. One problem is, women seem to have too many purses, different colors and all that stuff, so at times she finds her ID one one of those many pockets in one of her purses.

I really don't know the legal requirements, but know my wife needed her green card just to get in the field office. Don't ask me how I do it, I drop her off at the door, just walk in and say my wife is inside without any problems. Then she had to trade her green card for her USC certificate.

Green card is worthless to anyone except the person that has their picture on it, hopefully it will turn up. Never liked that phrase, you must carry your card with you wherever you go. Does that include going to the bathroom at night?

Yeah, I don't know how it happened. We're guessing that it's how the green card lives in our daily life. She didn't take it out all the time because we were paranoid of something just like this happening so we kept it in a safe place at home. However it did get taken out and put in her wallet when we thought someone might ask her for rock-solid identification (usually she uses her California ID) or when we needed to make a copy. I think it's in this transfering of one place to another that it got misplaced. Go figure! It's giving us an excuse/reason to go thru every slip of paper in the house!

Since I have three scanners and a copying machine, hey the USCIS wants tons of evidence, I am constantly guilty of leaving some original in one of those. Easy to do when concentrating on organizing all the copies. Did you make your copies at home or go someplace? Just a thought.

[antda 13]

Hi Mugs,

Sorry to hear that you lost your 10yr green card. I do hope you find such in time. If I were you, in my opinion, I think you should do the following:

1) Look again everywhere for the green card! Surely it's got to be somewhere! Turn the whole house upside down if you have too...lol.....

2) If stolen, file a police report. That way, if it gets found, it can be returned to you. Notify other agencies (such as credit card companies, the USCIS, etc.) that your documents have been stolen. This prevents fraud from other people using such documents illegally.

3) Schedule an Infopass appointment with the USCIS to explain your situation. If you have made copies of your green card beforehand, bring that with you too, as well as any other documents you may have about your green card.

4) If you still have your foreign passport, ask for a I-551 stamp in your passport, during your infopass appointment. The I-551 stamp proves your green card status and residency, and is usually valid for up to a year (or however long the immigration officials choose it to be). This should be sufficient enough for you to prove status during your biomterics and your interview and for your oath.

5) In the future, seriously, consider making photocopies of important documents, and important documents that you don't need to use on a regular basis, keep in a safe place instead.

Hope this helps. Good luck on the rest of your journey and hope you find your green card too.

Ant

P.S. To the poster who said not to carry the green card...It's the law! "You must carry this card with you at all times!" (and don't lose it, or pay $300+ for a replacement)

P.P.S. As for the naturalization certificate...."Keep it in a safe place" (or risk losing it and paying $400+ for a replacement). Do not carry it with you! (And if you need proof of citizenship, apply for a passport, an/or carry a photocopy of it only with you).

My wife sent in the N-400 and got the biometrics for 12-9-09. I know the whole process takes about three months from biometrics to oath ceremony. The problem is she lost her greencard.

We see the solution (I-90 and fee, ouch!). What we're worried about is that she'll be waiting for the replacement greencard and so not have it when she goes to the interview and/or oath. If she doesn't have it will they turn her away and consider the N-400 process abandoned?

The biometrics app says she can postpone till 3-3-2010. With the waiting time for a greencard at about 3.5 months if she applies now she might just make it but that would be tricky.

Edited November 29, 2009 by Ant+D+A

[SuperDuper! 230]

Do we really have to have the carry "Copy vs Actual GC" discussion going on in two threads simultaneously?

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...=230573&hl=