Received green cards for me and my wife, but not our daughter

[Kaptan 0]

Hi,

My wife and I received our green cards in the mail a little more than 3 weeks ago, but so far our daughter's has not arrived. Should this be a cause for concern?

The last update for her on the USCIS ELIS website is dated August 19th, and the status is still showing "in process." We had entered the U.S. on July 25th so it has almost been two months. We got our cards produced on August 28th.

We called the USCIS call center to ask about this a couple of weeks ago. The answer we got was "our systems sometimes have problems, I cannot see what is exactly happening with her case from my screen, but the fact that she has a case number and status is a good sign, so just continue waiting for some more time."

Any advice on what the best thing to do would be? Keep waiting as we were told, or try to make an appointment with a field office? I don't want to panic prematurely, but I also want to avoid losing time in case something should have happened by now but didn't.

[ashi2 0]

I don't know what is the best advice but wish you all the best and hopefully her card card arrives soon.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

Something has gone wrong, you should have received all around the same time. If you're not getting any luck calling USCIS (I'd suggest another call to talk to someone else) then yes make an appointment at uour local office.

[Kaptan 0]

Thanks. My wife was relaxed about it because she has read in Russian-speaking forums that things like this have happened from time to time, some people receiving their cards months after others in their family. However, I'm not so relaxed, especially with another federal government shutdown on the horizon.

Another question: If, hypothetically, due to an excessive amount of incompetence on the government's part, we are not able to get the actual green card within a year, would my daughter's status as a permanent resident expire? Or would it be just the stamp that's expiring? I remember in the envelope with our green cards it said that even if the card expires our status would remain valid, so I'm guessing this goes for the 1-year, passport-stamp I-551s as well?

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

The status doesn't expire but your proof of it does, which becomes a bureaucratic nightmare. Get it sorted...