From: [email-masked] (Zongli Lin)
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 94 11:26:21 CST

We are in the following situation, any help would be greatly appreciated.

My wife is a LAD who filed her I-485 last August in Spokane INS and
has not received anything from them yet. We recently moved to Long
Island, New York. We wrote to Spokane INS a month ago asking them
for the transfer of the file to the new local INS. No answer from anywhere
yet. Now my wife needs a social security number for the health insurance
card from the state. We went to the local SS office and were denied. They
need a proof from the INS to show the legal status. We know that a
working permit will do, but where shall we apply to as we don't know
where the I-485 material is at now? Any suggestions? 

Lin

p.s. Any information about the NYC INS office (location, office hours, 
     telephone, how long normally one needs to wait in the line...) would be 
     helpful to us too,