Green Card Replacement

[bjarvis]

I was at the local INS office for 8 AM this morning for my appointment to replace my green card. In all, it was a fairly efficient and quick affair: show the letter designating my appointment at that office along with photo ID, complete an additional service request form and wait for a short while before being electronically fingerprinted and having a new photo taken. I was out of there by 8:20 AM.

My replacement card should arrive in December.

Now to work on replacing my passport...

Comments

[weekilter.livejournal.com]

Are you saying that *they* took a picture rather than you having to provide (2) as you do for a passport? I assume (rightly or wrongly) that this is handled through the department of state the same as for passports. Or am I wrong in this assumption?

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

Yes, precisely: the INS took a digital photo on the spot rather than me obtaining photos myself from a professional photographer.

The INS these days is more correctly called the US Citizenship & Immigration Service, a part of the Dept of Homeland Security. Passports, however, are handled by the State Dept.