How to check status on her green card

[linuxpro]

My wife arrived, from Asia, on August 1, on her IR1 visa (15 days ago).

I paid the fee for her green card on June 3.

How can I check that everything is going smooth.

Her sister is very sick, so she needs to travel to Canada for two weeks. She needs her green card to get a eTA.

Once she returns my employer can hire her. She must have a green card because I work for a defense contractor.

Meanwhile, can she enter Canada by land only on her endorsed IR1 visa? Her sister lives right over the border in Whiterock.

[newacct]

My wife arrived, from Asia, on August 1, on her IR1 visa (15 days ago).

I paid the fee for her green card on June 3.

How can I check that everything is going smooth.

Her sister is very sick, so she needs to travel to Canada for two weeks. She needs her green card to get a eTA.

Once she returns my employer can hire her. She must have a green card because I work for a defense contractor.

Meanwhile, can she enter Canada by land only on her endorsed IR1 visa? Her sister lives right over the border in Whiterock.

Her immigrant visa, endorsed upon entry, already is a "green card" -- it automatically turns into an I-551 upon entry, and a green card is also just an I-551. Everything she can do with a green card, she can do with her endorsed immigrant visa, including get an eTA. Her A number is listed on the immigrant visa as the "registration number".

[linuxpro]

Her immigrant visa, endorsed upon entry, already is a "green card" -- it automatically turns into an I-551 upon entry, and a green card is also just an I-551. Everything she can do with a green card, she can do with her endorsed immigrant visa, including get an eTA. Her A number is listed on the immigrant visa as the "registration number".

Interesting. I will go online an try the eTA form.

My employer is a defense contractor. I am an engineer, and only a USC can work as an engineer here. My wife can work in one of the other departments. They tell me she needs a physical green card. I guess that is just policy, and nothing to do with immigration???

The trip to Canada is more important now. She should get work and a driver license when she returns.

BTW: My wife already has a social security card. We obtained that right after we got married. I guess we do not need an i94 this time. I cannot pull it up. I guess they misspelled her name again. She has a three part first name, and no last name. There are a lot of iterations of spelling that they may have entered.

Thank you

[scientist2016]

Interesting. I will go online an try the eTA form.

My employer is a defense contractor. I am an engineer, and only a USC can work as an engineer here. My wife can work in one of the other departments. They tell me she needs a physical green card. I guess that is just policy, and nothing to do with immigration???

The trip to Canada is more important now. She should get work and a driver license when she returns.

BTW: My wife already has a social security card. We obtained that right after we got married. I guess we do not need an i94 this time. I cannot pull it up. I guess they misspelled her name again. She has a three part first name, and no last name. There are a lot of iterations of spelling that they may have entered.

Thank you

I94 is for non-immigrant visas. She is a permanent resident now.

[newacct]

Interesting. I will go online an try the eTA form.

Yes. The only question is what to put for the expiration date. I think she can put 1 year after her date of entry, because that's how long the endorsed immigrant visa serves as an I-551 for.

My employer is a defense contractor. I am an engineer, and only a USC can work as an engineer here. My wife can work in one of the other departments. They tell me she needs a physical green card. I guess that is just policy, and nothing to do with immigration???

That might be illegal discriminatory documentary abuse. The employer cannot require or prefer any particular document over any other set of documents accepted by the I-9. A foreign passport with an endorsed immigrant visa is a List A document (i.e. it satisfies both identity and work authorization requirements) for the I-9 and it sufficient to complete the I-94 by itself. Alternately, she can present her driver's license (a List B document) and her Social Security card that does not have restriction text on it (a List C document), and she does not have to present any proof of permanent residency at all.

BTW: My wife already has a social security card. We obtained that right after we got married.

How did she get a Social Security card right after you got married? Usually she needs to be in some status that allows work authorization to get a Social Security card.

[linuxpro]

I94 is for non-immigrant visas. She is a permanent resident now.

True, but some government org require it.

When my wife entered before on a K1. We decided not to stay because my job transfer fell though. She needed her i94 to get a SSN.

I switched employers and came back to the USA. We obtained an IR1.

[scientist2016]

True, but some government org require it.

When my wife entered before on a K1. We decided not to stay because my job transfer fell though. She needed her i94 to get a SSN.

I switched employers and came back to the USA. We obtained an IR1.

Once again, I94 is for people entering the US with a non-immigrant status. For e.g., you will never be issued a I94 since you are a citizen. Previously she was given a I94 since she entered using a K1, which does not confer permanent residency. I94 was needed for getting SSN because she was not a permanent resident, and hence it was necessary to determine whether she was currently legal to stay. The case now is different. She is a permanent resident now once she entered using IR1. If she had applied for SSN after becoming a LPR, they would not have asked for her I94.

The primary purpose of I94 is to determine the legal duration of stay i.e., any stay beyond the assigned date automatically cancels the non-immigrant visa used to enter, as well as marking the beginning of accrual of illegal stay which then could lead to automatic bans upon departure. People admitted under some visas like F are not given a fixed duration of stay in their I94, but instead granted a stay as long as they maintain their F status for e.g. Their legal stay duration is then determined by other documents like I20.