[sak9645]

I'm not sure what you mean by the Consulate at Shanghai not issuing a passport. Your child already came home on a Chinese passport, issued by the Chinese government. She now needs a U.S. passport, which you apply for at your local passport acceptance facility, such as a post office. The passport acceptance facility sends it to the Regional Passport Agency Office serving your state. Shanghai has nothing to do with it. From here on, everything is processed in the U.S.

Clearly, there has been a problem with your COC, as they generally take 60-90 days to arrive. The fact that you were sent a green card shows that there was an error, since you should not have received one; the COC should have been sent, instead. Your child is not a legal permanent resident; she is a citizen.

I assume that both you and your spouse traveled and saw your child before the final decree of adoption was issued in China. If only one spouse traveled, or if one spouse arrived AFTER the decree was signed, then your child would get an IR-4, not an IR-3, and you would not get a COC automatically.

If you both traveled, and your child should have had an IR-3, check her Chinese passport to see what the visa stamp says. It is possible that the wrong visa stamp was used in China, and that it says IR-4. If so, that is why you did not get the COC. You will have to prove to the USCIS that both parents traveled and saw your child before the final decree was issued.

If the Chinese passport says IR-3, then the USCIS office in the U.S. messed up. In that case, you need to contact the USCIS and try to correct the error. You can find contact information on the USCIS website. If you have difficulty getting through to a live human being, contact your adoption agency. Some USCIS offices do not like talking to parents; they prefer to talk to agencies.

Sharon