Urgent Travel, but green card not arrive after approved interview

[edwin1682006 0]

To whom may help us,

After 5 years of relationship, we were married on 3/24/2016. Keep things short, our interview was approved on 9/21/2016 and the interviewer said it will takes 10 days for green card to arrive. Now is over 10 business days, but yet nothing received. My wife has to travel back to Hong Kong on 10/17 (1 week later) for urgent family visit without conditional Green Card on hand.

Questions:

1. How to check if USCIS process our approved case? Any numbers to call?

2. Any ways to speed up the process to receive green card or travel approval?

3. Can we go back to USCIS office to have the travel approval stamp?

PS: The interviewer said we need flight information (Not booked flight on interview) to stamp on her passport for re-entry if no greencard received.

Any help appreciated. I will update the interview questions and timeline when I get these urgent travel solved!

Much Thanks!

Edwin

Los Angeles, CA

[ch3john 308]

Check the status on the USCIS.gov website. They sometimes will put the tracking number of the shipment

[Ryan H 3,821]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to Working & Traveling During US Immigration forum.

[Penguin_ie 5,996]

Did she interview for a CR-1 spousal visa ABROAD, as you originally posted in that forum? If so, she would not get a greencard, but a visa. She should be able to ask for her passport back without the visa if she needs to travel, and upon return, can submit the passport again for visa stamping.

Or did she come to the USA on some other visa, such s a K1 fiancee visa? If so, did she not apply for EAD (work permit) and AP (travel permit) with her Adjustment of Status to greencard holder?

[edwin1682006 0]

Dear Queen Penguin,

She came to USA via student visa, later on F-1 (OPT). We got married when she has the F-1. With limited knowledge, we didn't apply for EAD or AP with her AOS.

I see that on the website after the interview, we need to call the office for a case number. So we can apply the plastic green card for $165. Can I apply the green card for her when she returned to Hong Kong? Then I can pass the greencard for her when she returns?

Thanks!

Edwin

[Jojo92122 1,924]

Dear Queen Penguin,

She came to USA via student visa, later on F-1 (OPT). We got married when she has the F-1. With limited knowledge, we didn't apply for EAD or AP with her AOS.

I see that on the website after the interview, we need to call the office for a case number. So we can apply the plastic green card for $165. Can I apply the green card for her when she returned to Hong Kong? Then I can pass the greencard for her when she returns?

Thanks!

Edwin

She needs AP before she leaves the US. Even if she is readmitted, she can be found to have abandoned the process by leaving without AP.

https://www.uscis.gov/green-card/green-card-processes-and-procedures/travel-documents/emergency-travel

Travel outside of the United States may have severe consequences if you are in the process of adjusting your status (applying for a green card). In general, if you are seeking immigrant status (a green card) and depart the United States without the appropriate documentation (i.e. advance parole) you may be inadmissible to the United States upon return, or even if admitted, you may be found to have abandoned your application.

[p-ana 933]

Try setting up an infopass to request her passport to be stamped.

[Jojo92122 1,924]

Try going back to the USCIS office and ask for emergency AP.

Do not travel without AP in hand.

If she leaves without AP, she is risking her green card. She may have to wait a year outside the US for a spousal visa.

The only way you can get the green card to her is to mail it. The risk of losing by sending it abroad is not worth it.

At LAX, there is no way you can get the card to her before CBP inspection.

[Rc123rc 528]

I guess another question is.. Is the family travel really that important? I don't want the details of the reason but I've missed close relative funerals due to severe circumstances. I would classify this as a severe circumstance.

[Eric-Pris 1,607]

If the greencard was already approved in the system, AP is no longer an option. She would need to get an I-551 stamp in her passport. That's a temporary greencard stamp.

Make an INFOPASS to your local USCIS office.

[pink_niru 41]

To whom may help us,

After 5 years of relationship, we were married on 3/24/2016. Keep things short, our interview was approved on 9/21/2016 and the interviewer said it will takes 10 days for green card to arrive. Now is over 10 business days, but yet nothing received. My wife has to travel back to Hong Kong on 10/17 (1 week later) for urgent family visit without conditional Green Card on hand.

Questions:

1. How to check if USCIS process our approved case? Any numbers to call?

2. Any ways to speed up the process to receive green card or travel approval?

3. Can we go back to USCIS office to have the travel approval stamp?

PS: The interviewer said we need flight information (Not booked flight on interview) to stamp on her passport for re-entry if no greencard received.

Any help appreciated. I will update the interview questions and timeline when I get these urgent travel solved!

Much Thanks!

Edwin

Los Angeles, CA

Currently , Physical green card takes 6 months to dispatch. I arrived in USA in Feb & i received my card in July End.

Huge backlog is there for Green Card.