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| Changes in immigration that impact your life. |
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| USCIS Announces Changes to Stand-Alone I-130 Filing Locations |
| December 24, 2011 |
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| USCIS has announced changes in the filing locations for Form I-130 and effective 01/01/2012 domestic petitioners will mail their stand-alone I-130 applications to either the Chicago Lockbox or the Phoenix Lockbox, depending on where they reside in the United States. There will, however, be no change in filing locations when submitting Form I-130 along with Form I-485, for Adjustment of Status, and individuals filing these forms together will continue to mail them to the Chicago Lockbox facility. |
| USCIS Centralizes Filing of Form I-130 |
| August 24, 2011 |
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| Effective Aug. 15, 2011, petitioners residing in countries without USCIS offices must file their Form I-130, Petition for an Alien Relative, with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) lockbox facility in Chicago. Petitioners residing in a country with a USCIS office may send their petitions to the USCIS Chicago lockbox, or file at the USCIS office in that country. Individuals who must file Form I-130 at the Chicago lockbox should use the addresses provided in the revised form instructions. |
| USCIS Memo on eligibility for naturalization for battered spouses and children |
| February 4, 2005 |
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| U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services (USCIS) has released a memo clarifying that individuals who obtained lawful permanent residence by reason of an approved waiver of the joint filing requirement under section 216(c)(4)(C) of the INA are also eligible to apply for naturalization under section 319(a). |
| USCIS Memo on Good Moral Character in VAWABased selfpetitions |
| January 25, 2005 |
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| In an interoffice memorandum the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has informed the adjudicators at the Vermont Service Center (VSC) of the change in the law concerning determinations of good moral character made in connection with VAWAbased selfpetitions (Forms I360). |
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