Approved, but what is ADIT?

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Animalia

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Today, I received email from CRIS informing me that notice welcoming new permanent resident sent. However it says "Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later." What is ADIT processing? As I understood it has something to do with biometrics. Am I right? My and my wife's fingerprint were taked on 5/13/09. Does it mean my green will not be mailed without ADIT procesing?
My wife's I485 is still pending.

Thank you gurus as always for valuable comments.
 
Animalia said:
Today, I received email from CRIS informing me that notice welcoming new permanent resident sent. However it says "Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later." What is ADIT processing? As I understood it has something to do with biometrics. Am I right? My and my wife's fingerprint were taked on 5/13/09. Does it mean my green will not be mailed without ADIT procesing?
My wife's I485 is still pending.

Thank you gurus as always for valuable comments.
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Congratulations
 
Thank you mmed. This forum helped me to understand entire immigration process to become permanent resident.

Hope they will approve my wife's I-485 soon.
 
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Animalia said:
Today, I received email from CRIS informing me that notice welcoming new permanent resident sent. However it says "Your new permanent resident card should be mailed within 60 days following this registration or after you complete any ADIT processing referred to in the welcome notice, whichever is later." What is ADIT processing? As I understood it has something to do with biometrics. Am I right? My and my wife's fingerprint were taked on 5/13/09. Does it mean my green will not be mailed without ADIT procesing?
My wife's I485 is still pending.

Thank you gurus as always for valuable comments.
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Post-approval ADIT processing is a bit of an anachronism and is almost never necessary now. In the olden days (I think until about 4 years ago), after I-485 was approved by a national service center, the applicant had to go to a local INS office for additional biometrics (fingerprints, photo and signature) that were then used for the physical card production. Now this step is almost never necessary and USCIS forwards your previously collected biometrics data directly to the card production facility, which prints the card within a couple of weeks of I-485 approval. There may still be a few cases where additional biometric data is necessary, but such cases are few and far between. So unless you receive a new letter from USCIS specifically requesting you to do additional ADIT processing, you should just sit tight and wait for your card to arrive in the mail. Your case status on-line or over the phone should be updated accordingly when a card has been ordered into production and then when it has actually been mailed to you.

There is also another thing called the ADIT ot I-551 stamp that provides temporary proof of LPR status. In the old days, again when card production could take a while after I-485 approval, such stamps (placed in a passport) were routinely given by local INS/USCIS offices to people who had I-485 approval notices and needed to travel abroad before their cards were ready. Since card production now happens rather quickly after I-485 approval, I think that local USCIS offices generally do not give these ADIT stamps except for some rare situations.
 
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