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RezaReza said:
How we can know if our background check is cleared or not?
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There’s no one specific way. The outcome of your congressional inquiry may reveal this, a 2nd tier personnel may be willing to reveal this information, your IO can tell you the status of the background check at the end of your interview if you ask.
 
I had to move to a new house 5 days after my case was approved. It is the same city. I filled AR-11 online but didn’t mark that I have pending case because it was already approved.
I expect to receive my GC this or next week probably on the old address. USPS is forwarding to the new address, but I read that it might not be the case for USCIS mails.
Can I ask those who already received their GC. Did you have RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED or DO NOT FORWARD stamp on the envelope?
@kats kits @AOS2020 @migrant7 @aar81 @kratos @dvelopp @tekken123 ?
Thanks in advance!
 
ysim said:
I had to move to a new house 5 days after my case was approved. It is the same city. I filled AR-11 online but didn’t mark that I have pending case because it was already approved.
I expect to receive my GC this or next week probably on the old address. USPS is forwarding to the new address, but I read that it might not be the case for USCIS mails.
Can I ask those who already received their GC. Did you have RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED or DO NOT FORWARD stamp on the envelope?
@kats kits @AOS2020 @migrant7 @aar81 @kratos @dvelopp @tekken123 ?
Thanks in advance!
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I would love to have your problem
 
ysim said:
I had to move to a new house 5 days after my case was approved. It is the same city. I filled AR-11 online but didn’t mark that I have pending case because it was already approved.
I expect to receive my GC this or next week probably on the old address. USPS is forwarding to the new address, but I read that it might not be the case for USCIS mails.
Can I ask those who already received their GC. Did you have RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED or DO NOT FORWARD stamp on the envelope?
@kats kits @AOS2020 @migrant7 @aar81 @kratos @dvelopp @tekken123 ?
Thanks in advance!
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It is correct that USPS does not forward USCIS mail. Do you know the person who moved into your old place? Asking them to keep any mail that arrives for you would be the simplest solution, assuming it gets delivered there. If the post office simply doesn’t deliver it and sends it back to uscis, it can be quite a process to get the card back again.
 
SusieQQQ said:
It is correct that USPS does not forward USCIS mail. Do you know the person who moved into your old place? Asking them to keep any mail that arrives for you would be the simplest solution, assuming it gets delivered there. If the post office simply doesn’t deliver it and sends it back to uscis, it can be quite a process to get the card back again.
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Thanks, yes it is 1 mile away from my new home. I will speak to the new tenant. I will update here how it goes.
 
SusieQQQ said:
It is correct that USPS does not forward USCIS mail. Do you know the person who moved into your old place? Asking them to keep any mail that arrives for you would be the simplest solution, assuming it gets delivered there. If the post office simply doesn’t deliver it and sends it back to uscis, it can be quite a process to get the card back again.
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@ysim Apparently you can track the delivery of the GC by signing up for the Case Status Online account and the Informed Delivery through USPS. I tried registering my address for the informed delivery but it wasn't available for my address, which it sucks....
 
Had my bio this morning. Pretty routine, as per other people's posts here. Officer allowed phones inside, as long as they were switched off, despite a sign saying "no phones". I provided both appointment letters (I received two, but they were identical, apart from the issue dates being one day apart), and was told that either would be fine, as the case number was the same, and fingerprints/photo would be recorded to my profile, using that. A couple of mildly interesting administrative details to note, for the curious:
  1. Neither My.USCIS nor EGov.USCIS showed any updates throughout the day, as late as 6pm PDT (West Coast time), but at 8:50pm, the EGov account, and receipt number status check both read "Case Was Updated To Show Fingerprints Were Taken", though it isn't reflected in the "Case History" portion of the EGov account, but the previously blank "Next Steps" section now reads "We will prepare your case for officer review. If we need more information, we will notify you."
  2. My.USCIS even now still shows no updates (i.e. "We received your case").
  3. Despite being signed up for text updates on my EGov account, I didn't receive anything (so they're either unreliable, or they're released at certain times- i.e. not live).
  4. At 8:50pm PDT (11:50pm EDT 08/17), the "LAST UPDATED" date on EGov read 08/18 (see attached), so they must not be using an American timezone.
Thank you for reading my riveting post :p

Now for more waiting :,D
 

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ysim said:
I had to move to a new house 5 days after my case was approved. It is the same city. I filled AR-11 online but didn’t mark that I have pending case because it was already approved.
I expect to receive my GC this or next week probably on the old address. USPS is forwarding to the new address, but I read that it might not be the case for USCIS mails.
Can I ask those who already received their GC. Did you have RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED or DO NOT FORWARD stamp on the envelope?
@kats kits @AOS2020 @migrant7 @aar81 @kratos @dvelopp @tekken123 ?
Thanks in advance!
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Hi ysim,

USCIS provided me with a tracking number for each GC. That should help you with knowing when the envelope will be delivered. Both envelopes had “RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED” as Susie mentioned before.

Hope this helps and good luck!
 
SusieQQQ said:
It is correct that USPS does not forward USCIS mail. Do you know the person who moved into your old place? Asking them to keep any mail that arrives for you would be the simplest solution, assuming it gets delivered there. If the post office simply doesn’t deliver it and sends it back to uscis, it can be quite a process to get the card back again.
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In reality this is not correct!
I changed address, I applied for USPS delivery informed and I filled out the "change address form"
I was sure to not get any USCIS mail, instead last Saturday I get my interview letter to my new address, despite USCIS sent it to my old address.
There was the typical yellow tag, and actually USPS re-address it...
Now I do not know if it was a mistake, if they get confused..but I actually got a IL...
I am sure that USCIS sent one also to my husband (in my previous post I said that we got a copy of our IL going directly to the USCIS office, so I know that there is another IL),he did not get his IL...and I am sure that it is because he is not register for delivery informed and he did not filled out the change of address form.
 
Ale85 said:
In reality this is not correct!
I changed address, I applied for USPS delivery informed and I filled out the "change address form"
I was sure to not get any USCIS mail, instead last Saturday I get my interview letter to my new address, despite USCIS sent it to my old address.
There was the typical yellow tag, and actually USPS re-address it...
Now I do not know if it was a mistake, if they get confused..but I actually got a IL...
I am sure that USCIS sent one also to my husband (in my previous post I said that we got a copy of our IL going directly to the USCIS office, so I know that there is another IL),he did not get his IL...and I am sure that it is because he is not register for delivery informed and he did not filled out the change of address form.
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Did the envelope have “return service requested” on it like the green card ones do?
 
There was no return service requested on it.
There was just the yellow tag with the new address.

I do not know if accidentally they re-address it..but in my case, they did it.
 
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Ale85 said:
There was no return service requested on it.
There was just the yellow tag with the new address.

I do not know accidentally they re-address it..but in my case, they did it.
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It is the ones marked return service requested that are not supposed to get forwarded. I guess your FO uses different envelopes to the green card ones (I am actually fairly sure my last letter from my FO said return service requested but cannot swear to it.)
 
Ale85 said:
In reality this is not correct!
I changed address, I applied for USPS delivery informed and I filled out the "change address form"
I was sure to not get any USCIS mail, instead last Saturday I get my interview letter to my new address, despite USCIS sent it to my old address.
There was the typical yellow tag, and actually USPS re-address it...
Now I do not know if it was a mistake, if they get confused..but I actually got a IL...
I am sure that USCIS sent one also to my husband (in my previous post I said that we got a copy of our IL going directly to the USCIS office, so I know that there is another IL),he did not get his IL...and I am sure that it is because he is not register for delivery informed and he did not filled out the change of address form.
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Susie’s post is correct. USPS is not supposed to forward government mail, especially if such mail has “Return Service Requested” on the envelope. You were rather fortunate to have had USPS forward the IL to your new address, they’re not supposed to do that. The GC will most definitely not get forwarded if USCIS does not have your new address on the envelope.
 
ysim said:
I had to move to a new house 5 days after my case was approved. It is the same city. I filled AR-11 online but didn’t mark that I have pending case because it was already approved.
I expect to receive my GC this or next week probably on the old address. USPS is forwarding to the new address, but I read that it might not be the case for USCIS mails.
Can I ask those who already received their GC. Did you have RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED or DO NOT FORWARD stamp on the envelope?
@kats kits @AOS2020 @migrant7 @aar81 @kratos @dvelopp @tekken123 ?
Thanks in advance!
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A workaround way might be to register for Premium Forwarding Service with USPS - this is a paid service, different from the standard mail forwarding service that comes with the USPS change of address. With Premium Forwarding Mail Service, USPS can forward Registered, Priority, and Express mails.

Here’s an AVVO article that talks more on this.
 
SusieQQQ said:
It is the ones marked return service requested that are not supposed to get forwarded. I guess your FO uses different envelopes to the green card ones (I am actually fairly sure my last letter from my FO said return service requested but cannot swear to it.)
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I think some FOs are using just a regular first class mail to send the IL. My FO used a regular $0.5 first class stamp without any return service request,(BTW I didn'tchange any address). So,I guess the usps just forwarded those IL like they forward the regular mail.
 
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