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RAsylee

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I received the letter in the mail yestrdayAccording to the approval letter they would process this notice from Monday Thru Friday during the hours of 7 AM- 2 PM. Letter also instructed to bring along :

I-94
Passport
Two pictures

I took all the required documents and 2 extra pictures. Arrived at the office at 7:15 AM in the morning ... was assigned a number and I was serviced around 9:20 A.M. The officer took the finger prints and signatures etc. I told him that my passport was expired and I do not want it to be stamped with adjustment of status so I requested the white card with picture etc....
Officer took my asylee I-94 and gave me a photocopy of the Approval letter and the I-94 on same page. He had me fill out another form "Deferrence Request" or something simmilar to it and took me to another area in the office. This section was named as EWD and Deferrence.

I sat down and waited again...after a little over one hour one lady called me and asked me the purpose of the visit so I showed her the photocopy previous officer had given me and told her that I filled out I-89 today and since my passport is not valid so I was sent in this direction. She asked me for my driver's liscence. She went away with me Liscence and the photocopy of Approval letter and I-94 that was given by the earlier officer....

Around 11:30 AM she came and asked me if I had picture with me. I gave her a picture and then after about 10 mins she returned and provided me the white card that states....

Processed for I-551
TEMPORARY EVIDENCE OF
LAWFUL ADMISSION FOR
PERMANET RESIDENCE
VALID UNTILL NOV 12, 2004
EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED

I was out of the office around 11:55 or so... This whole process took around 4.5 hours....

Questions: Will green card be backdated from one year today? and was I suppose to request for it? Cause if I was then I forgot....
 
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Rasylee, good luck with the rest of the journey. I have a question, I do not currently have I-94 for asylee, I still have my very first one when I came on a tourist visa.
were they firm about those 2 documents that they required or is there a substitute?
Gilbert your inout will be appreciated too

thanks a lot
 
One year before APPROVAL DATE, not stamp date.

It should be automatic. But sometimes they forget to backdate it. If that happens to you, just submit an I-90 form to have it corrected. No big deal.

Congratulations.


Originally posted by RAsylee
I received the letter in the mail yestrdayAccording to the approval letter they would process this notice from Monday Thru Friday during the hours of 7 AM- 2 PM. Letter also instructed to bring along :

I-94
Passport
Two pictures

I took all the required documents and 2 extra pictures. Arrived at the office at 7:15 AM in the morning ... was assigned a number and I was serviced around 9:20 A.M. The officer took the finger prints and signatures etc. I told him that my passport was expired and I do not want it to be stamped with adjustment of status so I requested the white card with picture etc....
Officer took my asylee I-94 and gave me a photocopy of the Approval letter and the I-94 on same page. He had me fill out another form "Deferrence Request" or something simmilar to it and took me to another area in the office. This section was named as EWD and Deferrence.

I sat down and waited again...after a little over one hour one lady called me and asked me the purpose of the visit so I showed her the photocopy previous officer had given me and told her that I filled out I-89 today and since my passport is not valid so I was sent in this direction. She asked me for my driver's liscence. She went away with me Liscence and the photocopy of Approval letter and I-94 that was given by the earlier officer....

Around 11:30 AM she came and asked me if I had picture with me. I gave her a picture and then after about 10 mins she returned and provided me the white card that states....

Processed for I-551
TEMPORARY EVIDENCE OF
LAWFUL ADMISSION FOR
PERMANET RESIDENCE
VALID UNTILL NOV 12, 2004
EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED

I was out of the office around 11:55 or so... This whole process took around 4.5 hours....

Questions: Will green card be backdated from one year today? and was I suppose to request for it? Cause if I was then I forgot....
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Originally posted by cider_or
Rasylee, good luck with the rest of the journey. I have a question, I do not currently have I-94 for asylee, I still have my very first one when I came on a tourist visa.
were they firm about those 2 documents that they required or is there a substitute?
Gilbert your inout will be appreciated too

thanks a lot
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I think you were approved by an immigration judge?

I do not think you have to worry about an I-94 with asylum stamp.
 
cider_or,

No they were not firm about the I-94, I am sure the I-94 you have will work just fine...

Regards,
 
Gilbert,

If approval date is the criteria then it will be Nov 7th...so the green card should be dated as of 11-7-02......?

Regards
 
what do u do if you don't have a passport(lost 2yrs ago) but have a valid RTD? any one knows?
 
Having a valid passport at the time for stamping is not a necessary. If you have it then it is good for the immigration officer cause they just stamp your passport and they are done. If you don't then however they have to get a white card, scribe the information, affix the picture, stamp the card. So there is little bit more work involved.

Officer who processed my approval said that he need a valid passport and I told him that I never renewed mine and he was bit puzzled but I insisted on getting the white card and at this particular office he took to me area called "Deferred Inspection & EAD" and when I explained to the officer that I am an asylee and need the card with change of status stamp the officer because I am an asylee and I never renewed my card she understood what I needed. There was some delay because I ended up waiting for considerable more time then I anticipated but hey I am an asylee and I am good at waiting :)

By the way I have read some posts here where forum members have shared that some folks have been actually stamped on the RTD. Even If my RTD was valid I would have still insisted on the card but that is just my personal opinion....

Regards
 
A question to three wise persons: Gilbert, Jackisback, and RAsylee,

If you get stamped on the your national passport, what would stamp normally say? Would it mention somewhere A06 or asylee status etc. Please give your best feedback.
Thanks
 
Azadindian,

This is the stamp on the white card


Processed for I-551
TEMPORARY EVIDENCE OF
LAWFUL ADMISSION FOR
PERMANET RESIDENCE
VALID UNTILL NOV 12, 2004
EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED

AS6

(AS6 is in my educated guess the indicator that we are being granted permanent residence on basis of asylum)

Since my passport is not stamped but my educated guess is that this indication will also be present on your national passport after it stamped as it appears to be a routine entry as part of stamping.
AS6 is hand written right beneath the stamp.

Regards,
 
RAsylee:
Your stamp below doesn't mention anywhere you became PR with asylum. Also you did not get your passport stampped. So I am just curious what passport stamp says when you get it on yout passport. Is anyone out there who has actually go stampped on the national Passport. Please advice....

Processed for I-551
TEMPORARY EVIDENCE OF
LAWFUL ADMISSION FOR
PERMANET RESIDENCE
VALID UNTILL NOV 12, 2004
EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED
 
Some of my family members got their expired passports stamped, I got the white card. The stamp they use for the passport and white card is exactly the same one.
The white card also contains your personal information, citizenship included.
This stamp becomes meaningless after you received the GC, it doesnt really matter where they stamp it (passport, RTD or white card) or even if you dont get it stamped, as long as you get your GC of course.
Hope this helps

Originally posted by Azadindian
RAsylee:
Your stamp below doesn't mention anywhere you became PR with asylum. Also you did not get your passport stampped. So I am just curious what passport stamp says when you get it on yout passport. Is anyone out there who has actually go stampped on the national Passport. Please advice....

Processed for I-551
TEMPORARY EVIDENCE OF
LAWFUL ADMISSION FOR
PERMANET RESIDENCE
VALID UNTILL NOV 12, 2004
EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED
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Originally posted by Azadindian
RAsylee:
Your stamp below doesn't mention anywhere you became PR with asylum. Also you did not get your passport stampped. So I am just curious what passport stamp says when you get it on yout passport. Is anyone out there who has actually go stampped on the national Passport. Please advice....

Processed for I-551
TEMPORARY EVIDENCE OF
LAWFUL ADMISSION FOR
PERMANET RESIDENCE
VALID UNTILL NOV 12, 2004
EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED
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Are you sure it doesn't say "AS6" on the stamp? An educated and well rounded foreign offical would know what "AS6" means. Especially those in the intelligence community.
 
Jack,
From RAsylee's stamp it looks like immigraton officer did not write AS6. Thats why I was asking particularly this question.

So please crarify if stamp mentions anywhere AS6.

I am not worried about it. But I just wanted to clarify this.
 
Originally posted by RAsylee
Azadindian,

This is the stamp on the white card


Processed for I-551
TEMPORARY EVIDENCE OF
LAWFUL ADMISSION FOR
PERMANET RESIDENCE
VALID UNTILL NOV 12, 2004
EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED

AS6

(AS6 is in my educated guess the indicator that we are being granted permanent residence on basis of asylum)

Since my passport is not stamped but my educated guess is that this indication will also be present on your national passport after it stamped as it appears to be a routine entry as part of stamping.
AS6 is hand written right beneath the stamp.

Regards,
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The way I read this post is that AS6 IS on the stamp. Rasylee, would you please clarify?
 
From what I understand this stamp is a generic stamp that is used by the officers to stamp regardless of how one obtained permanent residence....

Processed for I-551
TEMPORARY EVIDENCE OF
LAWFUL ADMISSION FOR
PERMANET RESIDENCE
VALID UNTILL __________
EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED

OK... so this is the content of the stamp....

For me this is what It says ...
A # XXXXXXX right above the stamp and is handwritten

Processed for I-551
TEMPORARY EVIDENCE OF
LAWFUL ADMISSION FOR
PERMANET RESIDENCE
VALID UNTILL __________ NOV 12, 2004 is handwritten .....
EMPLOYMENT AUTHORIZED

Right beneath the stamp AS6 is handwritten ....

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On a different note though I don't remember anyone ever sharing that they scan green card while passing borders via cars to Canada... they may scan it though while coming via airport...but I will be interested if someone can share some experience in that matter....

Regards,
 
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AS6 = Asylum based LPR. And BCIS backdates our greencard issue date to one year prior to the I-485 approval date. I dont know if asylees are the only ones who get one year backdate on their GC. For the Refugees they backdate their GC issue date to the day they entered the US.
 
Stamp on white card

The stamp on the white card at the back says AS6 for the primary applicant and AS7 for derivative family member in our case.
We got stamped on 11/07 and 11/17
Both were back dated 1 year from the date approved.

InQ4GC
 
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