Change of Address - Wait or Not to Wait? NEED HELP/ADVISE

[Ruben 0]

Happy New Year 2013 to all!!

My wife is still waiting for her "Removing Conditions on Residency" to be approved. We filed end of June 2012 and received/acknowledged by USCIS on June 28 2012. She did her Biometrics end of July 2012 and got her extension for 1 year Aug 2012 while waiting for her permanent 10 yrs green card to be approved.

It's now Jan 2013 and we havent heard any news from USCIS. I know two applicants were been approved for the month of June 2012.

We live in the SF Bay area which we moved from San Francisco (where we used to live and as our home address on her application). We moved temporarily 10 miles far from San Francisco and advised USPS to forward our mails to the temporary address from Dec 15, 2012 to March 3, 2013. But we finally moved to our permanent address today Jan 1, 2013, which is 25 miles away from our old permanent address.

Definitely, at some point we are going to notify USCIS our new permanent address. Our questions are: Do we have to do it now? If we do it, is it going to delay her "Removing Conditions on Residency" approval? Or do we have to wait to get approved and then notify USCIS for our permanent address change? If we are not going to notify USCIS, does USPS forward your Immigration Correspondences to your forwarding address? We dont want to delay her approval, we dont want her approved 10 year green card to miss or get lost through the mail with these address changes. And of course, we dont want to have any RFE since we change our permanent address.

Any help is greatly appreciated before we do anything that we might regret later.

And once again, HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013 TO ALL!!! :help:

[milimelo 4,544]

No forwarding of USCIS sent mail possible even if you have forwarding set up with USPS. You can either hold the mail at the local post office and go there once a month and pick it up or do a full change of address (wife AR-11, you I-865) and HOPE GC gets sent to your new address.

[Enigma11561 336]

Technically you are supposed to notify USCIS within 10 days of moving. There is no forwarding. You can call them and do the change over the phone. I would suspect that as long as the change is in the system prior to mailing anything, it will go to the last address on file. I doubt if this will delay anything.

[Ruben 0]

No forwarding of USCIS sent mail possible even if you have forwarding set up with USPS. You can either hold the mail at the local post office and go there once a month and pick it up or do a full change of address (wife AR-11, you I-865) and HOPE GC gets sent to your new address.

Thanks for your quick response. Happy New Year to you and your family. I already did forwarding to my temporary address via USPS online from Dec 15, 2012 until Mar 3, 2013. So I am not sure if I can hold the mail at the local post office (I can go there once a week and pick it up) since I dont want USPS to get confused and lost my mails. I can do a full change of address for permanent and hope to get my wife's GC to our new address. But the question still prevails, does it delay the process and/or does it open to RFE since we change our dwelling place as husband and wife?

Thanks

[milimelo 4,544]

Thanks for your quick response. Happy New Year to you and your family. I already did forwarding to my temporary address via USPS online from Dec 15, 2012 until Mar 3, 2013. So I am not sure if I can hold the mail at the local post office (I can go there once a week and pick it up) since I dont want USPS to get confused and lost my mails. I can do a full change of address for permanent and hope to get my wife's GC to our new address. But the question still prevails, does it delay the process and/or does it open to RFE since we change our dwelling place as husband and wife?

Thanks

Happy New Year. Try going to the local post office and talk to the postmaster on how to hold the mail there until you're done with ROC. Changing address for both of you won't trigger a RFE, people do move - it's only an issue in getting the address actually updated with USCIS so the new GC arrives to the new place. AR-11 usually doesn't get you confirmation (paper) beyond the online confirmation but I-865 does get you a confirmation. If local USCIS office is close to you, schedule an infopass and see if they can change the address right then and there - 1-800 number people are not of much help.

[Ruben 0]

Happy New Year!!! Thanks for response guys!! One more question: I am the US citizen. Do I have to inform USCIS that I moved to my permanent address? I know my wife has to notify them. But do I have to, also?

Thanks!! :help:

[milimelo 4,544]

Happy New Year!!! Thanks for response guys!! One more question: I am the US citizen. Do I have to inform USCIS that I moved to my permanent address? I know my wife has to notify them. But do I have to, also?

Thanks!! :help:

Yes, as her sponsor, you fill out form I-865 and mail it in. Look it up on uscis.gov under forms.