Card Was Picked Up By The United States Postal Service

What "Card Was Picked Up By The United States Postal Service" means on your USCIS case, and what to do next.

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Card Was Picked Up By The United States Postal Service is a status you may see on your USCIS case. Here is what it means and what to do next.

What does “Card Was Picked Up By The United States Postal Service” mean?

USPS has physically taken possession of your card from USCIS and it is now in the mail stream. Delivery to your address is the next step.

What we see in real cases

From 10+ de-identified cases people checked with CaseStatusAPI that show code LEE. Updated daily.

Cases
10+
Last seen
Apr 2024
Usually after filing
56 days
Half of cases: 31–185 days

Forms it appears on

  • I-76582%

These are cases people checked here, not every USCIS case, so they lean toward online filings and people watching their case closely. Your own case can move faster or slower.

What should you do?

Track the shipment with USPS. Make sure someone can receive the mail at your address.

What this means for your case

A single status only tells part of the story. Paste your full USCIS case data and we read “Card Was Picked Up By The United States Postal Service” in the context of every other event on your file — including the silent updates the public site hides — and show what usually came next for similar cases (history, not a prediction for yours).

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