lostinblue Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Today Yan went to biometrics for the 10 year green card. Outside of the upper NY state winter weather traveling to Buffalo things went fine. While Yan was being fingerprinted I walked up to the window and talked to an immigration person. I showed her the extention letter and asked about Yan returning to china in another month. They assured me that with that letter she would be able to enter an U.S.POE with no problem. I mentioned that some people had trouble using that to board an aircraft in the past. She proceeded to mention that Immigration was aware of this problem (as severe problems that face an airline for allowing a passenger to board a flight without a valid visa and passport) (what prompted this lately ?)And that some airlines were not allowing people to fly with the letter smoothly. So after Yan was done with finger printing she took Yans passport and stamped a page with the I-551 . She said we still should carry the I-751 letter with us when we leave the country with the expired 2 yr green card. So she is good to go. On another note. She mentioned we have a NEW A number on the extention letter. How our government works. So the old A number will do us no good if we want to find how the case status is online. I never looked to match the two A numbers up The last thing is she said when the NEW 10 year green card arrives we should return the OLD 2 year expired green card back to her office . (By mail was fine) As people had both green cards in posession when trying to enter the country and had a problem at the border for having both. I have no idea if the computer system showed the had not returned expired one. Anyway they NOW desire the expired 2 year green card one back. Link to comment
dnoblett Posted January 8, 2010 Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Actually the A# is not used on the online case status system you use the EAC# that is on the Bio letter, for some reason the number on I-751 NOA1 is different and does not reference the case on the online system. Crazy. I doubt A# changes since this is the number on Green-Card. Good to hear about the I-551 stamp, I too have had this concern. Link to comment
lostinblue Posted January 8, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2010 Sorry EAC number Link to comment
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