waiting for GC..frustrating

[AwaySooner]

My wife was approved in Feb during our interview, but she has to re-do her fingerprint. Unfortunately we need to move after that, I updated our address accordingly using the online system and received a confirmation at the new address. We finally got the fingerprint done late March. I received bunch of emails update a week after that including Card Production order and Approval Notice Sent (I485 and I130), but we received nothing in the mails. Call 1-800 several times, told me to update it online and wait 30 days for return. Completely useless. Yesterday I receive "Notice Being Return LUD in my file! We updated the address like a month ago, and I do it again anyway last week. This pretty much proved that the online address update system is a completely different system, even if you receive a address changed confirmation from CIS, your application file is still not updated. How stupid is that? What a bunch of morons..now we wait wondering when we going to get her GC that's sitting at CIS office in Missouri.

 

[AwaySooner]

My wife finally received her GC this past week, I applied for her soon after I became USC. Took us a little longer because she had to do fingerprint twice, and we had to change address twice (another long and unrelated story).

--Seattle District (Married to USC)
-Nov 13 2006 - I486, I130 and I131 sent to Chicago
-Nov 22 2006 - NOA for I485 and I130 and I131
-Nov 28 2006 - NOA for Fingerprint, scheduled Dec 08 2006
-Dec 08 2006 - Fingerprint
-Dec 18 2006 - NOA for Interview, scheduled for Feb 07 2007
-Dec 21 2006 - LUD on I131, approval noticed sent
-Dec 23 2006 - Received Travel document
-Feb 07 2007 - Interview (last about 10 minutes, obviously we've been married for 2 years and have a 8 months old daughter with us, only asked for daughter's birth certificate, approved but have to do a second fingerprint)
-Feb 13 2007 - Received 2nd fingerprint notice, scheduled for Mar 16 2007
-Feb 22 2007 - Change address online
-Feb 28 2007 - Changed address online again
-Mar 16 2007 - Second Fingerprint
-Mar 21 2007 - LUD on I485 Notice mailed welcoming the new permanent resident.
-Mar 26 2007 - LUD on I485 Card production ordered
-Apr 02 2007 - LUD on I485 Approval notice sent
-Apr 06 2007 - LUD on I485 Notice returned as undeliverable (sent to old address without apartment number)
-Apr 09 2007 - LUD on I130 Aproval notice sent on Apr 05
-Apr 10 2007 - Received I130 Aproval notice
-Apr 13 2007 - LUD on I485 Document returned by the post office as undeliverable
-Apr 17 2007 - Document OTHER THAN CARD manufactured and mailed (They resent my wife greencard actually)
-Apr 19 2007 - GC arrived in a brown envelope with the previous letter cut up and GC in a small plastic bag

The second fingerprint set on our 2nd year anniversary, so my wife got 10 years IR6, I wondered if they do this on purpose? or just a coincidence? Considered us lucky because our change of address only delay us 2 weeks in getting the GC. As of today, I still don't have I485 Approval notice. What do I care, I am taking my wife to get her SSN next week. Good luck everybody.

 

[dr_lha]

Congrats. Its normal for USCIS to fuck up the address change process. I would say that you got extremely lucky in that they seemed to correct the mistake quickly. I've known people who've had to wait 6 months for that mistake to be corrected!