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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is currently experiencing a three-to five-day delay with the intake and receipting of applications associated with re-registration of El Salvadorans for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and Forms I-130, Petition for Alien Relative, filed at the Chicago Lockbox facility.As of August 18, 2010, we are currently receipting applications and petitions received at the Chicago Lockbox on August 5, 2010.
WASHINGTON — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminds nationals of El Salvador (and persons without nationality who last habitually resided in El Salvador), who have Temporary Protected Status (TPS), to file their re-registration applications for TPS before the end of the re-registration period on Sept. 7, 2010.
WASHINGTON—U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today announced implementation of an Act Making Emergency Supplemental Appropriation for Border Security for the Fiscal Year Ending September 30, 2010, and for Other Purposes (also known as the Emergency Supplemental Appropriation for Border Security Act).
WASHINGTON— The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today published a final rule amending its regulations governing the employment authorization for dependents of foreign officials classified as A-1, A-2, G-1, G-3, and G-4 nonimmigrants. This rule, effective August 9, 2010, expands the list of dependents eligible for employment authorization to include any individual who falls within a category of aliens designated by the Department of State (DOS) as qualifying.
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) experienced technical difficulties with the Form I-797C, Notice of Action - Fingerprint Notification. USCIS did not print and mail this form to asylum applicants living in California and Arizona between July 8, 2010 and August 4, 2010.
What You Should Do
Go to the nearest USCIS Application Support Center (ASC) for fingerprinting and biometrics collection before your asylum interview if you:
WASHINGTON - U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and the Department of State today issued a joint statement on the decision to suspend processing for new adoption cases based on abandonment in Nepal. Joint Statement
New edition dated 4/21/10. Previous editions accepted. Transition to change in filing location instructions and addresses. Part of an overall effort to transition the intake of forms from Service Centers to USCIS Lockbox facilities.
New edition dated 7/15/10. Previous editions accepted. Transition to change in filing location instructions and addresses. Part of an overall effort to transition the intake of forms from Service Centers to USCIS Lockbox facilities.
New edition dated 4/21/10. Previous editions accepted. Transition to change in filing location instructions and addresses. Part of an overall effort to transition the intake of forms from Service Centers to USCIS Lockbox facilities.
New edition dated 07/15/10. 12/03/09 edition can also be used. No other editions accepted.