Re-applying for Green Card

[nepenthe 0]

Hello, all

I've been reading VisaJourney for several months, and it has been invaluable for its guides and knowledgeable user-base. I and innumerable others appreciate this community so very much, to be sure!

I apologize if this question has been answered previously, but if there's one thing I have observed on here; this is one place where good information cannot be repeated enough.

Our situation:

My wife entered the US last year (she is a Canadian citizen) with the intent to visit me over the summer. We soon fell very dearly and love and married in September. We are now nearing the culmination of all the necessary documents and forms to re-submit for her Adjustment of Status so that she can stay with me in our home. The thing is, she used to actually hold a Green Card (back in 2005 or so), and ended up moving back with her parents to Canada in 2006. On a trip to visit family in Florida in 2007, she was hassled by customs at the airport for holding a Green Card, yet not residing in the US, and was asked to sign a form to relinquish her status as a Permanent Resident of the US. They never ended up confiscating her actual card, and she has no proof that she signed this form as none was ever sent to her, but the actual card she still holds says it doesn't expire until 2015. We're not relying on continuing her previous status here, as we know she had not lived here for several years, and we want to do this completely by the book, but...

My question is: for the current paperwork we intend to submit, is it OK to use her previous A# and Social Security Number? I have read that the US Government likes to only assign one SSN to a person (for understandable identification purposes), and a new A# was never given to her at her point of entry last year, as she is Canadian and did not require a Visa to enter.

If anyone has been through this before, your insight would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you

[a+j 77]

Her SSN will definitely be the same (you get one for life).

As for her A#... I am not sure, hopefully someone else can chip in. Good luck.

[NikLR 13,232]

Use the same numbers.

I'll also report the post so it's moved to the AOS forum vs CR1

I hope you both have a wonderful life together.

BTW you're from VERY close to where I will be! Good to know there's other Canadians around Denver LOL

Edited April 3, 2013 by NikiR

[nepenthe 0]

Use the same numbers.

I'll also report the post so it's moved to the AOS forum vs CR1

I hope you both have a wonderful life together.

BTW you're from VERY close to where I will be! Good to know there's other Canadians around Denver LOL

Thank you for the response!

And yes, AOS is a far more relevant board for this. I apologize, and thank you for the requested move.

Best wishes as well; and yes, Colorado needs as many Canadians as it can get!

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Topic has been moved from the CR-1 forum to the AOS forum as the OP's wife is already in the US and applying for PR status from visitor's status.

[AnotherLostSoul 167]

SSN number stays the same, Alien registration number may not...mine changed...although it wasn't the same situation as your wife...but I was in the same belief as you were, and wrote my previous A number on all the forms. I did not get either rejection, or RFE for it. They simply just issued the NOA and that's when I noticed that my A number is not the same anymore. But SSN number stayed the same and will defintely stay the same for your wife as well.

Edited April 4, 2013 by AnotherLostSoul

[hmh33 117]

You should assume the A number stays the same unless USCIS tells you otherwise. Use the existing A number on these forms.