Plastic card recd -- possible error?

[budboy]

Recd my plastic card yesterday. In it, the "Permanent Resident since" date is specified as my I-140 RD (01/02/2001), although the card expiry date is correctly specified as 10/20/2014. Has anyone had this experience and is this an error that needs to be corrected?

 

[kailashr]

Bright side of this error, u will be eligible for citiszenship in a year...
May be this is how USCIS wants to applogize you for all those agonizing delays..

Recd my plastic card yesterday. In it, the "Permanent Resident since" date is specified as my I-140 RD (01/02/2001), although the card expiry date is correctly specified as 10/20/2014. Has anyone had this experience and is this an error that needs to be corrected?

 

[curiousGeorge]

I wonder if they double check this stuff when you apply for citizenship.

 

[budboy]

kailashr, I'm pretty sure that if and when I apply for citizenship, I'll be asked to fill out my GC approval date on a bunch of official forms and, even if CIS does not double check the info, I personally won't have the ba##s to knowingly fill out wrong info on those forms. So much for CIS's inadvertent effort to make it up to me for its long delay.

On the other hand, I would like to avoid the experience of being told that the card is invalid because of the wrong "PR since" date printed on it. Hence the concern. I do appreciate your thought though.

 

[kailashr]

It was just a joke... i know how frustrating it is to go thru this because of their stupid mistake... I hope u find the answer and when you do please share it with others

Thanks and Good Luck

kailashr, I'm pretty sure that if and when I apply for citizenship, I'll be asked to fill out my GC approval date on a bunch of official forms and, even if CIS does not double check the info, I personally won't have the ba##s to knowingly fill out wrong info on those forms. So much for CIS's inadvertent effort to make it up to me for its long delay.

On the other hand, I would like to avoid the experience of being told that the card is invalid because of the wrong "PR since" date printed on it. Hence the concern. I do appreciate your thought though.

 

[nmishra]

First congratulations for receiving the card.

I would suggest you to talk to customer service and let them know about the mistake. I hope that they will issue a corrected card soon.

 

[vidy5300]

my boss got the card with an earlier date as well

I personally know that my ex-boss who applied few years ago also had got a predated greencard. his case was approved in 2000 and he applied for his citizenship after 1 years or so.. since the card was predated his 5 year mark reached 1 years after his GC approval(that was sometime in 2001). He got his citizenship within a year(2002) of applying. He said that the application for citizenship was very straightforward. He applied for it all by himself.

 

[austin_eda]

So that's a gift! to you from TSC, budboy.

 

[Samir Das]

Wrong date in Green Card

I would advise that you do not take any chances with the Citizenship application. After 09/11 everything is cross checked and if they find out the discrepancy it may be more serious than you can imagine. Better to be safe than sorry!