Starting over in the U. S. after Getting Your Green Card (w jez. angielskim).pdf

Starting Over

in the U.S.

After Getting

Your Green Card

An Indispensible Handbook for Immigrants

Elzbieta Baumgartner

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Starting Over

in the U.S.

After Getting Your Green Card

An Indispensible Handbook for Immigrants

Elizabeth (Elzbieta) Baumgartner

Cover design: SKOK Communications, LLC, New York, tel. 1-718-224-2948,

www.skok.us

Publisher: Polpress Services, 255 Park Lane, Douglaston, NY 11363, tel. 1-718-224-

3492

Editing : Heidi Baumgartner

International Standard Book Number: ISBN 978-0-9770453-0-3

International Standard Book Number 10 digit: 0-9770453-0-7

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008939789

1. Aliens -- United States -- Popular Works. 2. Aliens -- United States -- Handbooks,

manuals, etc. 3. Visitors, Foreign -- United States -- Life skills guides.

Legal disclaimer: All information provided in this book is of a general nature and

does not constitute a legal advice. Although we try to provide accurate and timely

information, there can be no guarantee that such information is accurate as of the

date it is received or that it will continue to be accurate in the future. No one should

act upon such information without appropriate professional advice after a thorough

examination of the facts of the particular situation.

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Table of Contents

1. I NTRODUCTION .......................................................................... 1

P ART I. What Needs to Be Done Right After You Get

Your Green Card

2. Y OUR R OADMAP FOR L IFE WITH A G REEN C ARD ................... 4

2.1. If You Worked in the U.S. on a Temporary Visa in the Past.. 4

2.2. If You Have Worked Without Papers ....................................... 5

2.3. If You Have Been Using Someone Else’s Identity ................... 6

2.4. If Your Help to a Fellow Immigrant Got You in Trouble....... 8

2.5. If Your Identity Got Stolen.......................................................... 9

2.6. If You Were in Trouble in the Past .......................................... 10

2.7. If You Never Lived in the United States Before..................... 10

3. M ORE P ROBLEMS WITH THE I MMIGRATION S ERVICE A FTER

G ETTING Y OUR G REEN C ARD ................................................ 12

3.1. Now that You Are a Permanent Resident .............................. 12

3.2. Potential Problems with Your Green Card............................. 13

3.3. Remove Conditions on Your Two-Year Conditional

Permanent Resident Card ......................................................... 16

3.4. Don’t Lose Your Permanent Resident Status ......................... 20

3.5. Report Change of Address to the USCIS ................................ 21

3.6. Don’t Stumble on the Road to Naturalization ....................... 23

3.7.

4. F ORMALITIES A FTER G ETTING Y OUR G REEN C ARD ............ 26

4.1. Paperwork at the Social Security Office with New and

Old Cards .................................................................................... 26

4.2. Switch from ITIN to SSN .......................................................... 28

4.3. What Needs to Be Done at Work ............................................. 30

4.4. How Not to Get Fired for Having Used a Fake SSN in the

Past ............................................................................................... 32

4.5. When You Can Leave Your Sponsor....................................... 34

4.6. What Needs to Be Done at the Bank........................................ 35

4.7. Register with the Selective Service .......................................... 36

Forms, Appointments, and Office Locations ......................... 25

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