Green card production after ELIS

[Darnell 8,478]

Is there anyone who can share some info on the previous questions please ?

re: green card delivery address: if you can still receive mail at the NY address, I suggest you not change the address for ELIS.

I had a devil of a time with this, earlier this year. Very painful.

re: SSN address - SSA office won't care - they will send the SSN card to the address you put in on the SS-5.

[NikLR 13,227]

Paid the fee for In-Laws in ELIS on December 24.

In-Laws POE was JFK Terminal 1 on December 26.

Took them to a local SSA office to get SSN on January 6. Agent said they do the SAVE check there. Made no reference that a number has already been assigned (per answering YES on the DS-260) or to wait since it was only 11 days after entry. Cards received on January 10.

As of today, status in ELIS is Accepted with Case Received on December 24. When I do a check on the USCIS.gov case status website I get case can't be found.

How long should we wait before we start thinking about contacting USCIS or scheduling an INFOPASS appointment?

at about 6 months from POE if you still aren't optimized then worry. Until then there isn't much to do. At that time contact your senator or congressman.

You will not file the IOE number on the CRIS website until the card is produced.

[britishinfusion 30]

Today the USCIS did confirm that my husband's immigration packet given at POE in Dublin is LOST. So we had to schedule an appointment for next week with our local USCIS office. I'm very concerned now about where are the papers as they contain highly confidential information. Identity theft is weighing on my mind now. We'll it could be worse, at least I have my husband here living with me. He passed his drivers test this week so that's another item ticked off the list. I just hope they don't make him do the medical over again, if so they can pay that bill for us!

Have a good weekend.

[G_One 10]

Changing the delivery spot for the Green card (if the SSN wasn't issued after 2-3 weeks after POE, it won't be issued on it's own) is pretty tricky. It involves a lot of work with the USCIS and ELIS trying to get them both on the same page and can result in some major delays. Is it possible to still receive the card in NY?

@NLR thanks for your reply, need to check with my brother who lives in NY, he has tentative travel plans to India for Interview.

re: green card delivery address: if you can still receive mail at the NY address, I suggest you not change the address for ELIS.

I had a devil of a time with this, earlier this year. Very painful.

re: SSN address - SSA office won't care - they will send the SSN card to the address you put in on the SS-5.

@Darnell thanks for the response. What do you mean by SS-5 ?

[G_One 10]

The latest status on ELIS page is COMPLETED (Card is Produced).

However when I check my profile in ELIS, the Physical Address & Mailing Address boxes are blank, with no details.

So what I need to fill in there my DS-260 address (NY) or new address (CA) or leave it blank ?

[Nadeshda 6]

CRIS !

if you not have an account yet at CRIS, make one nowish.

Enter that IOE number from ELIS into the CRIS system, a case in your portfolio.

The USPS tracking # is listed in the CRIS system, after you log in and review it, when the tracking # is issued.

Don't see status yet? no USPS tracking # assigned yet - and that's ok - give it a few days.

CRIS account is important, please if you not have one, get one!

hhm I never heard of this one I did check my status and found a tracking number on the uscis website and already received my green card, 1 month and 8 days after POE.

Thanks though

[dhlunar 25]

My in-laws, the immigrants, asked this morning regarding their cards. I said based on this forum I said not to ask USCIS till after 30 days, which will be late January, and not to really get concern till after 6 months.

I haven't received any emails from ELIS or USCIS regarding the production of their cards. So, on a hunch I decided to check ELIS right now and see that both cases are now in optimized status as of yesterday. Per ELIS the case receive date was January 6, the date I take it USCIS receive their packets from CBP, and the latest update was yesterday. I checked the USCIS case status and got the status for both cases that the production of the cards started yesterday. I know Monday is a federal holiday. My next question is how many days does it stay in production status before it changes to card sent and a USPS Priority Mail tracking number is provided?

Also, does this activate the creation of the "Welcome to the US" letter? Do they actually still sent those letters?

[NikLR 13,227]

No they send a pamphlet with the green card.

[dhlunar 25]

The latest status on ELIS page is COMPLETED (Card is Produced).

However when I check my profile in ELIS, the Physical Address & Mailing Address boxes are blank, with no details.

So what I need to fill in there my DS-260 address (NY) or new address (CA) or leave it blank ?

If you take the IOE case number from ELIS and type in the case status on the USCIS.gov website you might get a USPS Priority Mail tracking number. If you take the USPS tracking number and type it into usps.com you should be able to see what city and state the item is addressed to.

[dhlunar 25]

@Darnell thanks for the response. What do you mean by SS-5 ?

SS-5 is the application for a Social Security Number. On the bottom of the application there is a place to put the address that you want your social security card to go to. If you have already been assigned a number they will just send you a new card (with the same number) to the address that you put down on the bottom of the application.

[dhlunar 25]

Once the status of the IOE case goes into card production status, how long does it usually stay in that status before the status gets updated to card mailed? In other words the card was sent to production status last Friday, will there be a good chance that it will be placed in the mail this week?

[G_One 10]

If you take the IOE case number from ELIS and type in the case status on the USCIS.gov website you might get a USPS Priority Mail tracking number. If you take the USPS tracking number and type it into usps.com you should be able to see what city and state the item is addressed to.

Thanks for the info, GC is in the city on its way as per the tracking results.

Once the status of the IOE case goes into card production status, how long does it usually stay in that status before the status gets updated to card mailed? In other words the card was sent to production status last Friday, will there be a good chance that it will be placed in the mail this week?

The status in ELIS will not change even after the Card being mailed till the time it is reached. Mine still shows card produced / Case status = Closed.

[katieflossom 54]

Got my greencard through (yay.) Had to go to SS office twice to see about me SS number (first time, line was out the door.) Finally got my SS number in the mail today, and they've only gone and spelt my middle name wrong... SERIOUSLY, can nothing go smoothly?!?!

Going to go back to SS office tomorrow to get it corrected. My question is: does anyone know if my actual number will change? I have job interviews coming up and need to finally get a bank account sorted, and want to be sure the actual number won't change.

Thanks in advance

[NikLR 13,227]

No your number will not change. It's like a NI.

[britishinfusion 30]

Today the USCIS did confirm that my husband's immigration packet given at POE in Dublin is LOST. So we had to schedule an appointment for next week with our local USCIS office. I'm very concerned now about where are the papers as they contain highly confidential information. Identity theft is weighing on my mind now. We'll it could be worse, at least I have my husband here living with me. He passed his drivers test this week so that's another item ticked off the list. I just hope they don't make him do the medical over again, if so they can pay that bill for us!

Have a good weekend.

So yesterday we met with our local USCIS office with regards to the lost immigration packet.

We got to the meeting early, didn't have a long wait at security which was nice. We were seen pretty much right away at the window. The lady made copies of everything they needed (birth cert, ssn, passport, marriage cert, UK & Wisconsin drivers licenses). The only thing she needed that we didn’t have was 2 passport type photos. We had plenty of photos but they were UK size not USA. So we had to leave and find a Walgreens and then come back. She said when you come back all we needed to do was drop off the passport type photos and then she would take Steve’s fingerprints and then she could mail everything to the Texas Service Center for his green card to be processed. What a sigh of relief that sounded so good.

So we left and thanks to the security guards they gave us directions to the nearest Walgreens. So when we got back, we went through Security again headed up to the window gave the same lady the 2 photos she needed and she then says you’re going to have to come back. The supervisor wants to have an interview with Steve, have him take an oath and then he will be fingerprinted then. She said you will get a letter in 1-2 weeks and then you have to come back. WHAT A JOKE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Were LIVID!

I mean come on! This was THEIR mistake in the first place so now we have to make another trip to their office which means more lost time from work and more gas $$ for the 2+ hour drive. I mean who do they think they are? They also act like it's OUR privilege to be in there presence. When this is all done I would really like to file a complaint but how does one even do that?

So now back to more waiting for the interview letter with the date/time.