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It's been a while since I've posted a new thread on these boards, but I thought I'd share my experience traveling by air through the Toronto POE back to the USA this week. The day before my flight (on United), I went online in Canada to print out the boarding passes for myself (US LPR and...

I need to travel to Shanghai in early December for a five day business trip. I am a Canadian Citizen (with Canadian Passport) and hold a US Green Card. I live in San Francisco. I have consulted both the Chinese Consulate Web sites, and the online Visa requirement tools provided by Delta and...

I got my GC in August 2004 (self-petitioned EB1-A), and my wife received her GC as a derivative. We are nearly three years away from applying for US Citizenship. We have twin daughters who were born in 2003 and obviously attained immediate US Citizenship, and they have their US Passports. I...

I just read this on the Fragomen site: ---- U.S. immigration laws and regulations require every foreign national age 18 or older to carry documentation of their lawful registration as a foreign national while in the United States. Documents acceptable for this purpose include the Form I-94...

I don't usually rant on these boards, but I read something this evening that really annoyed me. Many of you will be familiar with the Sensenbrenner/Frist Bills that may soon be passed that will make undocumented workers felons, or to even be in this country without proper papers a felony. I...

My GC was approved a couple of years ago, but I was doing some file housekeeping on my computer and came across this information from the USCIS Adjudicators Manual, "I-485 Standard Operating Procedure", page 7-3.24. It outlines the process by which an adjudicator might request an interview for...

I have an interesting situation and am wondering if anyone has the answer. I am a dual citizen (Canada and United Kingdom). I have maintained passports for both countries. I have my GC. When I applied for my Green Card, I did so with my Canadian Passport details, and everytime I have...

Just curious... I keep a photocopy of my Green Card in my wallet at all times in case my wallet gets stolen, I still have the card in a safe at home. Most people I know do this. My lawyer said it's OK (though not STRICTLY within the letter of the USCIS regulation) - she said as long as they...

My wife and I got our Green Cards about a month ago. We have both had CA Drivers Licenses for 10 years. We went to the local SS office today to request new SS# cards without the restrictive "INS" legend on them. Everything went smoothly, but the SS officer noted that our names on our GC only...

Flew back to SFO from London today (9/24) via United. Wife got her plastic a week before we went to London, our newborns are USC so have US passports. I just had the stamp in my passport. Ticket officer at Heathrow United counter took our documents and asked if I had a green card, and I said I...

Are the United Airlines staff at Heathrow completely familiar with the I-551 stamp? I am returning to SF next week and am wondering if I should anticipate any hassles... (before anyone flames me, I searched the forums on these terms and did not come up with any relevant threads/experiences)

I notice that the "Plastic Card Tracker" is almost exclusively populated by those lucky souls who stamped at SJC and got their cards in about a month. I propose this thread to be much like the LA thread, to catalog SFO stampings --> plastic card progress. I'll start - stamped 7/19. Officer...

Am traveling with my family to London and back in mid-September. I doubt we'll have our plastic cards before then, so I am wondering if there are any good/bad experiences to know about while traveling. (My wife and I have the stamps, our newborn daughters have US Passports. We are both British...

I found this buried deep within a CSC site somewhere today... sorry I don't have the link. May be of some interest to you how it all works. I don't know old this information is. Other posters have said that contractors are no longer involved in producing cards. I-551 Card Production Process...

Hi, we just got our passports stamped last week and are traveling abroad in September. Assuming we don't have our plastic cards in time, are we allowed to come back through the US Citizen/LPR line at the airport? If so, will we be referred to secondary inspection if all we have are the stamps?

With all these approvals going on, I wonder if there is a downside lurking at the USCIS. Will they be so overburdended trying to spit out the plastic cards, that those will take years to make too? And, of course, the amateur looking I-551 stamp only lasts one year (why?), which might mean an...

Sitting for seven hours at the SF USCIS yesterday, I began to wonder why they use such unfriendly language for documentation. Consider: Alien Registration Receipt Card - why not "Permanent Residence Card" - or - Advance Parole of an Alien into the United States - why not "Foreign...

Pathapati posted his SF stamping experience this morning. Becky and I posted our SF stamping experiences yesterday. What more evidence do we need that USCIS has no consistent system for informing officers, and that things 'just get made up' on the spot: I was told the card would be mailed...

My wife and I arrived at 8:10am - we were just too tired to get up early and do one of those 5am things. By 9am we were in the building. Got tickets #61 and 62, they were on #09 when we arrived. At 1pm our number was called. Stamping took less than five minutes. Whole process took five hours...

My wife and I received email approval notices the evening of 7/9 (Friday) saying that the paper notices were mailed that day. It's 7/14 now and we have not seen them yet (yes, I know about the "14 days" stated in the online case status - but that seems excessive for first class mail!). One...