no green card yet??

[baby44 0]

I am just curious if how long to have the greencard. Arrived usa july 10 of 2010 but until now i didnt received anything from them. ( greencard and ssn.) what should i do? wait? please share what you know. thanks.

[marriedtomrg 141]

You arrived on CR-1 visa?

You may want to ask other CR-1 applicants how to follow up on your green card. When you applied for CR-1, did you fill out the option for being issued a SSN? Do you have an I-551 stamp in your passport?

I believe some of the members have experienced not receiving their green card on time...you should visit the Philippines forum, or we can ask one of the moderators to move your question.

I am just curious if how long to have the greencard. Arrived usa july 10 of 2010 but until now i didnt received anything from them. ( greencard and ssn.) what should i do? wait? please share what you know. thanks.

Edited September 7, 2010 by marriedtomrg

[baby44 0]

You arrived on CR-1 visa?

You may want to ask other CR-1 applicants how to follow up on your green card. When you applied for CR-1, did you fill out the option for being issued a SSN? Do you have an I-551 stamp in your passport?

I believe some of the members have experienced not receiving their green card on time...you should visit the Philippines forum, or we can ask one of the moderators to move your question.

ya arrived on CR-1 Visa and I have stamp on my passport 1 year temporary resident !-551 also I filled out the option to issued me a SSN. thank you

[milimelo 4,481]

ya arrived on CR-1 Visa and I have stamp on my passport 1 year temporary resident !-551 also I filled out the option to issued me a SSN. thank you

Received any Welcome to USA letters yet? Those will have your case number that you can follow up on for green card issuance. If no green card until 9/10, I'd make an infopass to make sure someone's working on it.

http://infopass.uscis.gov/

If you still haven't received a SSN, time to go to your local SSA office.

https://secure.ssa.gov/apps6z/FOLO/fo001.jsp

[renatavivi 0]

Hi guys, I didn`t receive the Welcome letter and no GC!!! I arrived USA on August 07, and nothing Snifffff.....

[zenaxe 22]

I immigrated on a CR 1 (stamped) on Aug 13th and still no green card or SSN. I've been calling about the SSN but not about the green card. I hope I get it soon. You've been waiting a month longer than I have. You may want to follow up by calling.

Keep us posted

[Darnell 8,478]

SSN is easy - go to SSA office with passport and birth certificate, apply in visa name.

have the clerk look you up in the SAVE database system, using VISA name and/or A#.

re: green card - nothing? nothing at all? suggest you call USCIS, get an ISO, inquire - http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1221837986181.shtm#5

[zenaxe 22]

SSN is easy - go to SSA office with passport and birth certificate, apply in visa name.

have the clerk look you up in the SAVE database system, using VISA name and/or A#.

re: green card - nothing? nothing at all? suggest you call USCIS, get an ISO, inquire - http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1221837986181.shtm#5

I went down to the SSN office and have been calling the often. same old stuff. In fact, I mentioned the SAVE system and nothing, lncluding today. they won't issue one at all until 8 weeks have passsed; they said they used to at the 3 week mark but stopped because people would end up with two numbers issued. So now we all have to wait until at least 8 weeks fly by before they are willing to issue the SSN card and number and that takes 7-10 days. I can see now the advantage of NOT checking of the 'yes' to having the consulate applying for the SSN, on the DS230 form. If I checked off NO then I would have stopped by the local office and by now for sure would have received one; now instead I have to wait until sometime in Oct before they'll issue, if I don't yet receive one.

Green card, same, nothing. I'll try to follow that up. I'm at the 4 week mark of being here so I'm probably just along the normal timelines....the other poster should have received his/hers by now.

Darnell, thnx for posting that link. I'll follow up.

[baby44 0]

I went down to the SSN office and have been calling the often. same old stuff. In fact, I mentioned the SAVE system and nothing, lncluding today. they won't issue one at all until 8 weeks have passsed; they said they used to at the 3 week mark but stopped because people would end up with two numbers issued. So now we all have to wait until at least 8 weeks fly by before they are willing to issue the SSN card and number and that takes 7-10 days. I can see now the advantage of NOT checking of the 'yes' to having the consulate applying for the SSN, on the DS230 form. If I checked off NO then I would have stopped by the local office and by now for sure would have received one; now instead I have to wait until sometime in Oct before they'll issue, if I don't yet receive one.

Green card, same, nothing. I'll try to follow that up. I'm at the 4 week mark of being here so I'm probably just along the normal timelines....the other poster should have received his/hers by now.

Darnell, thnx for posting that link. I'll follow up.

have you received a welcome letter from uscis yet? I'm not

[baby44 0]

actually couple of weeks i arrived i received a letter and form from my POE Detroit metro instructing me to filled out the form and sent back to them coz they can;t process my papers as they forgot to let me sign the required form, that;s what i thought the reason of my delay. until now no welcome letter, SSN and Greencard yet.

[zenaxe 22]

actually couple of weeks i arrived i received a letter and form from my POE Detroit metro instructing me to filled out the form and sent back to them coz they can;t process my papers as they forgot to let me sign the required form, that;s what i thought the reason of my delay. until now no welcome letter, SSN and Greencard yet.

Hi, well I've received a few welcome letters, one dated Aug 25th, a second dated Aug 25th and I called the customer service number and they advised there was post decision activity and I asked if that could mean another welcome letter, to which she replied 'yes it could be." I asked her how it is that we can receive three welcome letters but get no information on SSN or green card...

It'll be nice to have everything in place and taken care of so we don't have to deal with this stuff at least for two years.....

Maybe this post decision activity is the green card but there's no way to know it seems....probably the 3rd welcome letterer. I'm surpised you haven't received your first welcome letter.

Here's another thing, the unofficial welcome letter (not the I 797C), goes on to say if you haven't received the SSN card within three weeks of immigrating, then call the national # they provide. But I called the national number only to be told that they don't deal with card, only benefits.

Again the wonderful NON integrated, left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing, process. It's not that bloody hard to get coordinated but these guys fail miserably at that. Not only that, but given that I've been calling and visiting the SSN offices, and they assure me I'm not on the system and no SSN number is yet assigned, why not just assign one locally then when the whoevers get to assigning one months later they can see on their system that one has been assigned. But no. Instead we have to wait up to 8 weeks for this to be assigned and then if it doesn't happen, they will be happy to assign one. But they can see no number is given out, so in the absence, assign one for pete's sake.

Clearly there is a more effective way of doing things than what we are used to in this process. At least we are approved and have immigrated BUT is there any portion of this entire process that isn't met with stonewalling and lack of information??

So I was told 60 days wait for SSN then come in, and today was told it could take 60 days after immigrating for the green card. Yet you see people getting things in a week, in a few weeks, in many months....what a broken system.

Just my rant of the day.

[intuitionsys 0]

I am just curious if how long to have the greencard. Arrived usa july 10 of 2010 but until now i didnt received anything from them. ( greencard and ssn.) what should i do? wait? please share what you know. thanks.

I've gotten busy and been meaning to post regarding our ordeal in the hopes that it might help someone else, which is directly related (or at least could be) to your situation:

My wife arrived at the end of March 2010 and after two months of no welcome letter no SSN no nothing we took things into our own hands (at the suggestion of several VJ members I might add ) and first did the SSN application ourselves even though like most people we requested one be automatically assigned. The SSA had no record of us in their system even after two months. Less than a month later she had her SSN in the mail anyway. After three months and still no welcome letter no nothing regarding her greencard we made an InfoPass appointment at our local USCIS office and they had no record of her in their system either. They told us to wait until the end of July before inquiring again "just because". No real affirmative reason mind you "just on the off chance something might be delayed", and if still no update regarding our case number by then to bring all our original documents next time and we'd have to resubmit everything basically recreating the package that should have been sent to Texas many months ago by the POE. So we made another InfoPass appointment the first week of August and then things were much different. The lady that time actually got off her behind and did something besides punching in a few numbers and saying "sorry my computer doesn't tell me anything about that specific number so it's not my problem". The mountain of paperwork we brought with us was I'm sure somewhat of an encouragement to do a little more research

All they would have had to do the first time, which the lady did this time, was search for my wife's name, which is unusual enough to be unique, at least among Canadian immigrants, and bingo "oh there she is right there". It turns out the Montreal consulate put the wrong registration number on her visa, so as far as the processing center in Texas was concerned, she hadn't crossed the border yet. Of course the system isn't smart enough to put two and two together; how does a package arrive FROM the border without someone CROSSING the border? And why if the SSA found the wrong number in their system did they not forward that information to the USCIS? Or more likely they just rubber stamped everything.

So anyway, once they had the right number they notified the processing center of the correct number and I guess our paperwork needs to come back through that office so it can get processed but at least now it is being processed, and she did extend her visa another year from the beginning of August so as long as the greencard processing doesn't take another year, everything is peachy.

You might want to suggest they do the same the next time you talk to the USCIS. Every time I've talked to them all they ever want is this number and that number. They don't seem willing to do much else unless push comes to shove. In our case a mountain of paperwork.

[Darnell 8,478]

anyone talking to an ISO ? (that's a 2nd tier staffer, btw, never the first person that answers the phone)

http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1221837986181.shtm#5

anytime I read ' they advised there was post decision activity ' then I think is tier 1 staffer, as they read exactly what is on the same uscis status portal that you can see, without any other real info.

[intuitionsys 0]

anyone talking to an ISO ? (that's a 2nd tier staffer, btw, never the first person that answers the phone)

http://www.dhs.gov/xabout/structure/gc_1221837986181.shtm#5

anytime I read ' they advised there was post decision activity ' then I think is tier 1 staffer, as they read exactly what is on the same uscis status portal that you can see, without any other real info.

I didn't know that's what they were called. The two times I talked to USCIS on the phone both times they were highly reluctant to pass me along to anyone else. It took two InfoPass appointments with real face-to-face meetings to even find out somebody messed up many months ago. I know I sound cynical but it kind of irks me that all they needed to do was type a few letters and hit tab a few times and they wouldn't even do that. The lady who did use her brain was curious who we talked to last time as she seemed genuinely annoyed as well that they didn't do for us the first time we were there what she did, so at least there's that

[tokyo.lovers 6]

we waited and it came on it's own!!

it took about 1 month, but we had to go to the SS office to get the SS card.