Biometrics appointment after green card approval ?

[Marco Jahn]

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Hello,
my wife has an EB3 green card. As a spouse, I also got one as a result and went through the consular processing at the consulate in Frankfurt/Germany. I had my interview in Frankfurt at the end of May 2024. At that time I was also photographed and fingerprinted. So basically what they call “biometrics”. My GC was approved in June 2024 and I entered the USA with it for the first time on September 9. This means I currently have the I551 stamp in my passport and I want to move permanently at the beginning of March 2025, which means I'm currently back in Germany. So at the moment I'm basically waiting for the physical GC to be produced and sent to the American address (where my wife lives).
Now I've received a summons to my wife's US address, summoning me to a biometrics appointment in Philadelphia. I was immediately threatened that my petition would be rejected if I did not attend the appointment. Can someone explain to me what the point of this is if the GC has already been approved? That wouldn't be the case if something was still missing, would it?

 

[SusieQQQ]

Sometimes they need to rerun the biometrics if something wasn’t captured correctly. The revocation statement is standard on a bio notice and usually refers to petitions in progress so no you won’t lose your status for that, but you won’t get a plastic green card until they have recaptured your biometrics.