Phase Two of USCIS Direct Mail Program Begins

  

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reminded its customers last week via a press release last week that they must now mail the following applications directly to the Chicago lockbox instead of submitting them to their local District Office:

 

·         Form I-485 (Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status – Family-based Adjustments only);

·         Form I-765 (Application for Employment Authorization);

·         Form I-131 (Application for Travel Document).

 

The new procedures for the above listed applications are in compliance with a Federal Register notice published on November 19, 2004, and went into effect on April 1, 2005.

 

With the exception of the new filing address, all immigration-filing procedures remain unchanged.  According to the release, the lockbox is a post office box used by USCIS to accelerate the collection of receivables.  In the case of the above listed forms, the lockbox accelerates this process of applications by electronically capturing data and images from these forms and by performing fee receipting and fee depositing. 

 

The above listed fees must now be sent to one of the following addresses:

 

US Citizenship and Immigration Services 
P.O. Box 805887
Chicago, IL 60680-4120

 

Or

 

For non-U.S. Postal Service deliveries (e.g. private couriers)

 

US Citizenship and Immigration Services
Attn: FBASI
427 South LaSalle – 3rd floor
Chicago, IL 60605-1098 

The release said that USCIS is facilitating the Direct Mail rollout in two phases.  Last December during Phase One, residents of 36 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam and the Virgin Islands began using the Chicago lockbox for filing these applications.  Phase Two of the rollout includes the states of Alaska, California, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington.  Detailed instructions on filing the above listed forms are available at www.uscis.gov.

  

 

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