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tarmac727

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hell to all, my family and i enterred USA in May 31St 2011 POE was Miami, we declare an address in Miami from a relative, but this person is sick and hospitalized now and we left USA without the fisical green card on hand, the USPS delivered those gc in a common mail or they request somebody to sign the delivered mail? and how long take to recieved the cards? if we don have the cards by Aug, what we have to do? please some advices are welcome
Tks very much
 
It normally takes 2-4 weeks after you arrived in the US for them to deliver the cards. So don't get concerned until it's been more than a month.

They stamped your passport when you arrived at the airport ... when does the stamp expire? In August?

Is there anybody to check your relative's mailbox?
 
Jackolantern said:
It normally takes 2-4 weeks after you arrived in the US for them to deliver the cards. So don't get concerned until it's been more than a month.

They stamped your passport when you arrived at the airport ... when does the stamp expire? In August?

Is there anybody to check your relative's mailbox?
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Tks Jackolantern, so far our relative is hospitalized, but her doughter who is taking care of her maybe could pass to see the mailbox,, i would like to know if the USPS left the green card in the mail box without requesting a form sign like you do when you receive some important mail?
Tks very much
 
Have you not been paying attention?

http://www.uscis.gov/portal/site/us...nnel=68439c7755cb9010VgnVCM10000045f3d6a1RCRD

USCIS Improves Delivery of Immigration Documents through Secure Mail Initiative

May 2, 2011

WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has fully implemented the Secure Mail Initiative (SMI), which uses U.S. Postal Service (USPS) Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation to deliver certain immigration documents in a safe, secure and timely manner.

Made possible by a partnership between USCIS and the USPS, the SMI enables USCIS to confirm delivery of permanent resident cards and documents pertaining to travel and employment authorization. With USPS tracking information, USCIS customers can easily stay up-to-date on the delivery status of their documents and USCIS can confirm that these essential documents were delivered to the proper address.

SMI provides USCIS customers many benefits, including:

The ability to track the status of their documents with USPS tracking information
Quicker delivery—on average, documents sent through USPS Priority Mail should arrive two to four business days sooner than with first-class mail

Customers who receive notices of approval can contact USCIS’s Customer Service Center at 800-375-5283 to request tracking information for their documents. USCIS customer service representatives will provide customers with their USPS tracking number and current USPS delivery status.

Customers should wait at least two weeks after getting their approval notice before calling for information regarding their cases. When requesting tracking information, customers must also provide information from the receipt notice they received when they submitted their initial application. After receiving the tracking number from the USCIS Customer Service Center, customers can track the delivery status by visiting the Postal Service website at www.usps.comExit Disclaimer and entering the USPS tracking number into the Track & Confirm field.

SMI was one of several enhancements resulting from USCIS’s 2007 final fee schedule. USCIS first piloted the initiative in July 2008, delivering all re-entry permits and refugee travel documents using USPS Priority Mail with Delivery Confirmation. USCIS has also used SMI processes since July 2009 for re-mailing all permanent residence cards, as well as employment authorization and travel documents returned by the USPS to USCIS as undeliverable.

For more information on USCIS and its programs, please visit www.uscis.gov or follow us on Twitter (@uscisExit Disclaimer), YouTube (/uscisExit Disclaimer) and the USCIS blog The Beacon.





Last updated:05/02/2011
 
tarmac727 said:
Tks Jackolantern, so far our relative is hospitalized, but her doughter who is taking care of her maybe could pass to see the mailbox,, i would like to know if the USPS left the green card in the mail box without requesting a form sign like you do when you receive some important mail?
Tks very much
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They don't have the recipient sign for it, but they do have tracking.

Anyway, you asked about what if you don't have the physical card by August. What happens in August? Is that when your passport stamp (the I-551 you got at the airport) will expire?
 
Jackolantern said:
They don't have the recipient sign for it, but they do have tracking.

Anyway, you asked about what if you don't have the physical card by August. What happens in August? Is that when your passport stamp (the I-551 you got at the airport) will expire?
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At POE, the officer told us that the stamp is valid for 1 year after endorsment, so we dont have any doubt about it, our concern is, since we gave an address of a relative that after we arrive was hospitalized, there is nobody in her House to receive the cards, so the question is is any possibility to receive the cars even there is nobody to receive those?
tks
 
The postal service would have delivered (or will deliver) the cards to the mailbox at the address of your hospitalized relative, even if nobody is there to sign for it. Somebody needs to check her mail so you can get the card.
 
Jackolantern said:
The postal service would have delivered (or will deliver) the cards to the mailbox at the address of your hospitalized relative, even if nobody is there to sign for it. Somebody needs to check her mail so you can get the card.
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Heloo averybody, this is to continue this post, my family and I enterred USA May 31st 2011, all with an immigrant visa on passport won on DV, at POE the IO told us that the phisical green card should arrive between 6 to 8 months later, also our SSN card arrive by mail cause we filled out our DS230 requesting to send it via mail, the cuestion is, since i read some post that people recieved their gc in almos 1 months we are worried about our gc were lost in mail, if we file for I90 how long is to receive the duplicate cards? and are we need to pay the fee since we never received those cards? wich documents they request to send with the application? all comments are very welcome we dont know what to do.
Tks
Christian
 
If at all the Green Card was never received, then you must submit documentation as a proof of it (a copy of the original approval notice that was dispatched to the applicant’s current address). If the original card was not delivered back to USCIS as undeliverable, then the replacement application based on the reason of non-receipt will be rejected. You need to file for a replacement of a lost Green card in case you cannot verify that the original card was returned as undeliverable. Form I-90 needs to be filed for this process.
 
jessicapotter said:
If at all the Green Card was never received, then you must submit documentation as a proof of it (a copy of the original approval notice that was dispatched to the applicant’s current address). If the original card was not delivered back to USCIS as undeliverable, then the replacement application based on the reason of non-receipt will be rejected. You need to file for a replacement of a lost Green card in case you cannot verify that the original card was returned as undeliverable. Form I-90 needs to be filed for this process.
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Thanks for your comments, the problems is the next, we enterred in USA almost 2 months ago, is that enough time to file for i90, we never received a letter from ucsis, or the ssn either, so we are worry about it, our POE ,was Miami and we dont know time for processing the documents?
any comments about please.
 
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