I-485 - Address Change
Hi Guys
Received Date - Jun 18th 2002
Notice Date - Jun 19th 2002
EB 1
EAD and AP recd.
Website says the Finger Print results were received in Aug 2nd Week and the processing has resumed.
I am contemplating to relocate to St.Loius (Missourie Processing Center) or Dallas (Texas Processing Center) in Jan 2003. Here are my questions, wud highly appreciate your views.
If I do not receive my approval notice and Green Card by then ( which may happen given the current processing times), will my file get transferred to the new service center or would the case still be processed by California Service Center and only my address in the application will change? I am asking his b'case Missourie's processing rate is very high compared to Texas and I may wish to move to St.Louis instead of Texas.
Secondly, Anyone who have recived their approval notice - can you please explain whether the notice can get forwarded to a new address if the post offfice has informed about the address change or is there something specific in the mail cover that prohibits the post office from forwarding the approval notice?
Thirdly do you guys have any idea whether we can inform the INS officer ( at the time of approval interview and passport stamping)to send the green card to a different address than in the application? Would this kind of request be fine or would he say that we need to go though the normal AR 11 route in which case, I am sure the card will be dispatced to the old address and will take a longer time to reach the new address because it can go back to the INS and wait for address change information.
Hope my questions are not confusing.
Tks
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