record break?!
I might have already broken the record (or will soon be doing so) for the longest wait for the Plastic card since passport stamping! We got our passports stamped at Baltimore on 25th Sep. 2002; month and ten days later, wife received the card but mine has been in the "card production stage" ever since!!! I have spoken to IIOs 5 times since the first week of Dec. '02 and the answer is the same.
The 5th time (yesterday) when I spoke to an IIO, she identified the officer in whose possession my file is and mentioned that other case types (probably the 485 etc.) are taking precedence over card production and that I shouldn't expect the card for another 60 days at least! She further said that if the backlog hadn't been this big, she would have personally asked the officer holding my file to offload it to her and would have seen it through the card production.
So, I have now decided not to call VSC until I reach my passport stamping anniversary. Is there anyone who has been waiting longer than I have? There seems to be something wrong with the Baltimore INS office as most of the problem cases are from that office!
Good luck to all!
-Palaniappan Rajaram