stillwaiting55
New Member
Hello, I finally went to INS in Philly yesterday and had mine and my wife\'s passport stamped.
Overall was a nice experience, the immigration officer (a lady) was very very nice and she did the work in less than 15 minutes. We came in at 8:50am and were nr 14 on "class" C (class/line C says replacement cards). First you go to a single line to get the number and explain the person why you\'re there. Then she gives you a number for the specific "class" that you belong to.
We\'ve been called at 11:00 and left INS about 11:15.
I gave her two photos (the same ones you take for everything else), the Advance Parole papers, the EAD card, the I-94 (stapled on the passport) and the passport. Although me and my wife got a number for each one of us, we went together when she called the first number. She worked on both cases and didn\'t complain the fact that we were together.
As I heard before, the stamp is pretty simple (total of 3 stamps on the passport, one is the stamp saying you\'re a permanent resident, another with the date and another saying PHI). She said the card itself can take up to 6 months, sometimes one year. She said if we don\'t receive it in 6 months, we can come back there and get some information or call you layers and they will look after it.
Here is some info about my case:
Country: others
Came as L-1 @ 3.5 years ago. The GC process was started on May 98.
EB unknown (my layer said it was not important in my case)
RD: Sept 29 1999
FP: Aug 2000
I-485 approval: Jan 30 2001
On the mean time, I\'ve got two EAD cards and two advance parole documents.
Somehow I thought I would feel so happy but to be honest, I still feel the same way as before... I\'m just relieved that it\'s almost over (it will be over the day I get the card, I know it\'s not important but I want it!).
Now I have a question if you don\'t mind. When we (me, my wife and daughter) were traveling using the advance parole, everytime we came back to the US (through Newark, NJ), INS asked us to go to another room were an officer would ALWAYS stamped everything without asking questions. Once, I asked them why I had to go to that room and they said it was a standard procedure when using the advance parole. No big complains, but after 10 hours on a plane with a child, it\'s not really a pleasant experience to wait 1-2 hours on this room to have everything stamped. The question is: now, with the GC stamped on the passport, will I have to go to the same room again next time or will it be easier?
Thank you all and God bless all the hard workers that come to the US and had to go through all those hassles.
Overall was a nice experience, the immigration officer (a lady) was very very nice and she did the work in less than 15 minutes. We came in at 8:50am and were nr 14 on "class" C (class/line C says replacement cards). First you go to a single line to get the number and explain the person why you\'re there. Then she gives you a number for the specific "class" that you belong to.
We\'ve been called at 11:00 and left INS about 11:15.
I gave her two photos (the same ones you take for everything else), the Advance Parole papers, the EAD card, the I-94 (stapled on the passport) and the passport. Although me and my wife got a number for each one of us, we went together when she called the first number. She worked on both cases and didn\'t complain the fact that we were together.
As I heard before, the stamp is pretty simple (total of 3 stamps on the passport, one is the stamp saying you\'re a permanent resident, another with the date and another saying PHI). She said the card itself can take up to 6 months, sometimes one year. She said if we don\'t receive it in 6 months, we can come back there and get some information or call you layers and they will look after it.
Here is some info about my case:
Country: others
Came as L-1 @ 3.5 years ago. The GC process was started on May 98.
EB unknown (my layer said it was not important in my case)
RD: Sept 29 1999
FP: Aug 2000
I-485 approval: Jan 30 2001
On the mean time, I\'ve got two EAD cards and two advance parole documents.
Somehow I thought I would feel so happy but to be honest, I still feel the same way as before... I\'m just relieved that it\'s almost over (it will be over the day I get the card, I know it\'s not important but I want it!).
Now I have a question if you don\'t mind. When we (me, my wife and daughter) were traveling using the advance parole, everytime we came back to the US (through Newark, NJ), INS asked us to go to another room were an officer would ALWAYS stamped everything without asking questions. Once, I asked them why I had to go to that room and they said it was a standard procedure when using the advance parole. No big complains, but after 10 hours on a plane with a child, it\'s not really a pleasant experience to wait 1-2 hours on this room to have everything stamped. The question is: now, with the GC stamped on the passport, will I have to go to the same room again next time or will it be easier?
Thank you all and God bless all the hard workers that come to the US and had to go through all those hassles.