Plastic Card

[boggavarapu]

I understand that one gets plastic card immediately if approved through local INS center rather than the regional one! What is the reason? Would appreciate any feed back. Thanks.

 

[brb2]

No, you don't. The cards are processed in only a couple of facilities. They are not processed in any local office.

Around the time I received my card in 2002 I noticed that people who did consular processing regardless of where they lived typically received their green cards within a maximum of 30 days. I was very intrigued by it and assumed that for consular processing it was done in a separate facility which was much faster than the one used for 485 processing.