I'm sure you realise that just as soon as both documents are reissued (and I hope that will be soon), you will find both the Green Card and your old passport. This is an Immutable Law of the Universe.
In my case, when I was naturalised a British Citizen, I had to send my US passport off to the Home Office so that they could satisfy themselves that I was me. Unfortunately, they tried to return it by second-class post. It was lost, although I suspect that some minion in their mailroom nicked it since it was both a US passport and had an Indefinite Leave to Remain visa in it, thus quite valuable in the US and the UK. I went to the US Embassy here to report it missing, and got quite a bit of guff from the clerk, who was British. Why did I post it? Have you put a trace on it (likely to succeed with 2nd class, not)? I ended up getting a passport good for one year only, and I had to do the whole thing over again the next year, with questions. Has it turned up in the post? (No, fool!) They then extended it for 9 years. Every time I travel on it (only to the US nowadays) the airline check in person and the US immigration people have to leaf through it to discover that it is good until 2010.
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Date: 2007-08-29 07:35 am (UTC)In my case, when I was naturalised a British Citizen, I had to send my US passport off to the Home Office so that they could satisfy themselves that I was me. Unfortunately, they tried to return it by second-class post. It was lost, although I suspect that some minion in their mailroom nicked it since it was both a US passport and had an Indefinite Leave to Remain visa in it, thus quite valuable in the US and the UK. I went to the US Embassy here to report it missing, and got quite a bit of guff from the clerk, who was British. Why did I post it? Have you put a trace on it (likely to succeed with 2nd class, not)? I ended up getting a passport good for one year only, and I had to do the whole thing over again the next year, with questions. Has it turned up in the post? (No, fool!) They then extended it for 9 years. Every time I travel on it (only to the US nowadays) the airline check in person and the US immigration people have to leaf through it to discover that it is good until 2010.
Good luck in confronting the bureaucracy.