Where to find the Permanent Resident Card number?

Do you know where to find the Permanent Resident Card number? The Green Card number is a number that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) used to track your file, prior to issuing the card.

In other words, Green Card is a name for the identification card issued by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to permanent residents a permanent resident card.

A Green Card contains 3 lines of 90 letters, numbers, and some symbols on the back. In the middle of these characters is a lot of important information, including your Green Card number, which is unique to each green card holder.

Where to find the Permanent Resident Card number?

The Green Card number is located on the bottom of the back of the card, in the first line of a string of 90 characters. The less than symbols are there just as space holders.

Each line contains 30 characters, but the Green Card number is located in the last 13 characters of the first line, followed by “>>.” 

The first line starts with C1 or C2, which indicates whether the Green Card holder is a long-term permanent resident within the US (C1), or a permanent resident commuter, from Canada or Mexico (C2).

Following are letters indicating the country of residence, USA, digits 3-5. The next ten digits (6-15) are called the alien number.

After this information, the Green Card number begins, this series begins with 3 letters, which indicate the service center which received the file for residency status.

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• CSC – California Service Center;
• EAC – Eastern Adjudication Center (now known as Vermont Service Center);
• IOE – ELIS (efile);
• LIN – Lincoln Service Center (now known as Nebraska Service Center);
• MSC – Missouri Service Center (now known as National Benefits Center);
• NBC – National Benefits Center;
• NSC – Nebraska Service Center;
• SRC – Southern Regional Center (now known as Texas Service Center);
• TSC – Texas Service Center;
• VSC – Vermont Service Center;
• WAC – Western Adjudication Center (now known as California Service Center);
• YSC – Potomac Service Center;

After the service center code are two digits that represent the fiscal year the case was received. Remind U.S. government’s fiscal year runs from October 1 through September 30.

Following the fiscal year are 3 numbers indicating the workday of the year that the case was opened.  Finally, the last five numbers are your unique immigrant case number.

The rest of the numbers include your birth date in year-month-date (YY/MM/DD) format, gender, the expiration date of the card (YY/MM/DD), a country of birth, and some space holders. The third line will contain your last name, first name, father’s first initial, mother’s first initial, and more space holders if needed.

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