Lost green card for naturalization interview

[kissjo 2]

Hello immigration community,

It's me again, the one who lost her GC just after the FP but before the Interview and oath ceremony.

I put my house upside down this weekend and I couldn't find my GC. (

I now know I can apply for another GC and use the receipt of the application to go to the interview and to the oath ceremony thereafter (Right??)

Do you think I can just get a police report that I lost my card and present it at both my interview and aoth ceremony? I have very limited resources and if I don't have to pay 400.00 for a green card that I am not going to use anyway (I am going to become a USC in the next 2 months max), then I would rather take that option..

What do you think??.. Please share your advise...

Thank you so much. You make a difference in my life.. Stay blessed.

[Brother Hesekiel 2,236]

No.

I understand what having limited funds means, which is why you make sure you don't lose your Green Card the same way a girl makes sure she doesn't lose her virginity. She just doesn't make out with boys, doesn't have sex, and doesn't walk through central park at night, alone, or go to parties where a bunch of drunk fellas hang out.

If your Green Card is in a fire safe in a locked steel cabinet, you don't lose it, you just don't.

If you managed to lose your Green Card nonetheless, you will either file an I-90 upfront, or attend the interview with the police report and hope for a miracle. It's possible that the I.O. will not require you to file for a replacement, the same way it's possible President Obama is an alien from outer space, hiding under a rubber mask of a human being.

If money is more important to you than time right now, that's what I would do. The worst that can happen is that the I.O. will ask you to file an I-90 and put your N-400 on hold until this has happened.

[NickD 202]

Have heard of cases where a person lost their green card after the interview and they let them get their certificate without it. But that is a risk depending on what side of bed the officers got up on that day.

Feel the reason they want it back so you can no longer travel without a US passport, a lot of good that did us, wife and stepdaughter still need their home country passports to get into their home country. I feel left out, only eligible for a US passport.

Wife is always losing her work ID card, but always manage to find it, she must have at least ten different purses, and try to remember what she was wearing when she lost it. I am always leaving stuff in either my copying machine or three scanners.

Have a leather key holder with four keys on it, house key and for three of my vehicles, that drove me crazy when I lost that. Didn't know if if I should change all the locks in my home and those three cars. A couple of months later, my wife was folding my blue jeans, she runs her hand to smooth them out and found those keys in my change pocket. Darn thing went through the wash at least five times and never fell out. Wouldn't that be something if you paid 400 bucks for a new card, then find your old green card in some pocket!

I hope you find it.

[milimelo 4,475]

Yes, as per: http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/uscis/menuitem.f6da51a2342135be7e9d7a10e0dc91a0/?vgnextoid=fa7e539dc4bed010VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD&vgnextchannel=fa7e539dc4bed010VgnVCM1000000ecd190aRCRD&CH=afm

(4) Delivering Certificates When the Permanent Resident Card Is Lost .

No Certificate of Naturalization will be delivered in any case in which the naturalized person has not surrendered his or her Permanent Resident Card to USCIS. Upon a finding that the card is destroyed or otherwise unavailable, the District Director may waive the surrender of the card and the Certificate of Naturalization must then be delivered to the naturalized person.

Since waiver is available, all the OP has to do is get the police report, make sure IO at interview is aware of that and sign whatever USCIS staff asks him to sign. I don't see a reason to waste $400 for something that won't even be produced by the time of interview or oath ceremony and USCIS does not refund money easily.

[kissjo 2]

HI everybody,

Just to give you updates. I was able to go to the immigration office today to explain my situation and they said it would be fine if I just come to the interview with my ID and a police report!.. Yeahh.. Thanks for the advices..

[MASH 172]

On 4/13/2011 at 10:26 PM, kissjo said:

HI everybody,

Just to give you updates. I was able to go to the immigration office today to explain my situation and they said it would be fine if I just come to the interview with my ID and a police report!.. Yeahh.. Thanks for the advices..

question, i sadly lot my green card at the airport but i dont remember if it was in the toronto airport or dallas airport , am i able to go to any police office and fill out the form or does it have to be in a certain police office?

[Ontarkie 14,215]

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