green card production stalled for CSC approvals in April?

[barryfaetheus 2]

So our ROC (september 2012 filer) got approved at CSC in the 2nd week of April. We received the approval letter in the mail a few days later, however, the card has not arrived. Looking at the September filers thread, this appears to be a common theme; Many approvals in April at CSC, but almost nobody has received the card. VSC does not appear to have the same issue, and earlier CSC approvals also appear to have gotten their cards quickly.

I know the approval letter says wait 60 days for the card to arrive, but something has clearly changed that card production has suddenly gone from fast to a dead stop. Does anybody have any idea what is going on? We are not in a desperate rush, but have to travel overseas in a couple of months, so would rather have this taken care of...

[Saylin 1,605]

So our ROC (september 2012 filer) got approved at CSC in the 2nd week of April. We received the approval letter in the mail a few days later, however, the card has not arrived. Looking at the September filers thread, this appears to be a common theme; Many approvals in April at CSC, but almost nobody has received the card. VSC does not appear to have the same issue, and earlier CSC approvals also appear to have gotten their cards quickly.

I know the approval letter says wait 60 days for the card to arrive, but something has clearly changed that card production has suddenly gone from fast to a dead stop. Does anybody have any idea what is going on? We are not in a desperate rush, but have to travel overseas in a couple of months, so would rather have this taken care of...

I don't know anything about card production, but I know both service centers hit some kind of back log or something mid-April in regards to issuing NOAs and cashing checks for ROC applications. They're currently a few weeks behind on these.

Seems like the workers shifted their focus away from the ROC department to another category

[Pitaya 2,577]

I suspect that the slowdown of many visa categories is a result of the ongoing DACA-tsunami that has swamped USCIS. Since program inception through mid-March 2013 there has been close to 500,000 DACA applications inundating USCIS service centers, with resultant shifting of workloads, it is amazing that anything else is being adjudicated.

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/All%20Form%20Types/DACA/daca-13-3-15.pdf

YMMV

[barryfaetheus 2]

I suspect that the slowdown of many visa categories is a result of the ongoing DACA-tsunami that has swamped USCIS. Since program inception through mid-March 2013 there has been close to 500,000 DACA applications inundating USCIS service centers, with resultant shifting of workloads, it is amazing that anything else is being adjudicated.

http://www.uscis.gov/USCIS/Resources/Reports%20and%20Studies/Immigration%20Forms%20Data/All%20Form%20Types/DACA/daca-13-3-15.pdf

YMMV

Agree....BUT I don't think this explains the slowdown of PRINTING green cards for CSC approvals in April onwards

[Pitaya 2,577]

Who knows? It is a huge government bureaucracy, where logic, reason and efficiency are often left at the curb in front of the building….lol...

Edited May 6, 2013 by A&B

[newlyweds2010 208]

I believe that all card are printend and shipped from a charming place called Lee's Summit, MO. It is inexplicable to me why there is such a huge difference between VSC and CSC, but it is what it is, I guess. I received my approval letter almost a month ago (I believe it was April 10 or 12), so I will give it another month before sharing my concern with the USCIS by means of multiple telephone calls, until this gets resolved. Meanwhile, I need to travel international, so I guess I will also need to schedule an info pass to see what exactly I will need to come back into the country, whether my expired GC and my extension letter, or also my approval letter, or anything else.

[newlyweds2010 208]

I received an email/text message today that my card was ordered for production and that I will receive it in the next 30 days. I had to call and place a service request, though.

[bigdog 376]

On the bright side at least you have an approval, just pending your card. Congratulations.

[tx2il 0]

On the bright side at least you have an approval, just pending your card. Congratulations.

The approval letter looks so 'fake' I wanna see the card to believe :-). At least the envelope it came in looks real

[huntherx17 0]

it's almost June now. still no Green Card. Got approved first week of April

Who else is waiting?

[AnotherLostSoul 167]

Dear Obama also passed the new law that the illegals can get citizenship, so could be that all those (ok, not all, but lot of them) illegals are right now submitting their documents to legalize themselves, so the USCIS offices are hammered by those as well. Also, I know that for those who are under H1B visa and want to extend, they could file until April for the following fiscal year...so now USCIS got all those applications too to look through and approve/deny those...so if we count all these and the DACA applications (and who knows about those DV lottery winners) sounds to me I would not want to work for USCIS and seems like they always have a ton to do. So I sort of understand their slowdown...after all, ROC applicants are "no biggies" compared to the others....ROC peeps are already permanent residents and USCIS doesn't try to deny people at this stage and get into a "he-or-she argument" with even divorced applicants....they have way more to do than that....good luck everyone!

[bewildering 9]

Dear Obama also passed the new law that the illegals can get citizenship, so could be that all those (ok, not all, but lot of them) illegals are right now submitting their documents to legalize themselves, so the USCIS offices are hammered by those as well. Also, I know that for those who are under H1B visa and want to extend, they could file until April for the following fiscal year...so now USCIS got all those applications too to look through and approve/deny those...so if we count all these and the DACA applications (and who knows about those DV lottery winners) sounds to me I would not want to work for USCIS and seems like they always have a ton to do. So I sort of understand their slowdown...after all, ROC applicants are "no biggies" compared to the others....ROC peeps are already permanent residents and USCIS doesn't try to deny people at this stage and get into a "he-or-she argument" with even divorced applicants....they have way more to do than that....good luck everyone!

Just wait till this new comprehensive immigration bill is passed and that will happen soon. I applied for my ROC in JAN and I fully expect to be delayed...

[AnotherLostSoul 167]

Exactly.....I also think there will be huge delay due to that too....

Just wait till this new comprehensive immigration bill is passed and that will happen soon. I applied for my ROC in JAN and I fully expect to be delayed...

[nickbits 43]

Got the fake looking approval on 4/16, still waiting for the card.

At least I'm less concerned the card got lost in the mail now from reading this thread.

Edited May 29, 2013 by nickbits

[nickbits 43]

Finally got the email today that card production was ordered.