Passport Visa Stamp has Expired but Green Card has not arrived

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Normally, your immigrant visa will say "Upon endors*m*nt, serves as temporary I-551 evidencing permanent residency." If it does, then it is your temporary green card (I-551) until July 2019.

"Endors*m*nt" refers to the admission stamp placed in your passport on or near the immigrant visa when the CBP officer processes you for immigration. This will have the date on which you immigrated in July 2018.

If the ground staff checking you in are not aware of this, you can explain it to them. Tell them to look in TIMATIC, which says (among other things) that you do not need a visa if you have

an ADIT stamp, (Upon endors*m*nt, serves as temporary I-551 evidencing permanent residency), on a passport or on a Form I-94.

If your visa does indeed say this then you should demand denied boarding compensation from the airline.

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