Lost Green Card, need for flight out of the country in 2 weeks!!

[bananite 67]

Hi all, we're having a bit of an emergency. My husband (the immigrant) had his wallet fall out of his pocket while on a brew bike (the thing where there are like 6 people pedaling a giant bike) cycling about 15 blocks through the downtown of our city. He didn't realize it until later and we went back and walked the route 6 times and it's long gone - It's a very crowded and sometimes seedy area, no doubt someone picked it up. It contained, among other things, his green card. We have a flight to his home country in 2 WEEKS and have no idea what we are going to do. We are filing a police report right now and he just made an appointment with USCIS exactly 7 days from now.

 

The green card itself is expired but he's got the extension letter (I-751) that extends it for a year. We've also got photocopies of everything. 

 

I read that we can go to a USCIS office with the police report and get the I-551 stamp. Is that enough to leave and reenter the US? Otherwise what else can we do? 

[geowrian 22,338]

Yes, the I-551 stamp acts exactly like a physical green card for 1 year. The Infopass appointment would be the place to get it.

[Lemon23 400]

15 hours ago, bananite said:

Hi all, we're having a bit of an emergency. My husband (the immigrant) had his wallet fall out of his pocket while on a brew bike (the thing where there are like 6 people pedaling a giant bike) cycling about 15 blocks through the downtown of our city. He didn't realize it until later and we went back and walked the route 6 times and it's long gone - It's a very crowded and sometimes seedy area, no doubt someone picked it up. It contained, among other things, his green card. We have a flight to his home country in 2 WEEKS and have no idea what we are going to do. We are filing a police report right now and he just made an appointment with USCIS exactly 7 days from now.

 

The green card itself is expired but he's got the extension letter (I-751) that extends it for a year. We've also got photocopies of everything. 

 

I read that we can go to a USCIS office with the police report and get the I-551 stamp. Is that enough to leave and reenter the US? Otherwise what else can we do? 

Make sure you have the police report prior going to your appointment with USCIS, they might gonna ask for that document.

Also, bring  your husband's passport, extension letter, copy of lost green card and ticket of your travel as the officer my ask for it as well before giving your husband a I-551 stamp.

Hope this helps.

Edited September 27, 2018 by Lemon23

[Lucky2Lucky 2,526]

In the future don’t keep the green card in your wallet. Or social security card for that matter.