USCIS Announces Change to Filing Locations for Stand Alone Form I-130 Filings

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has recently accounced that it will soon change the filing locations for Form I-130, Petition for Alien Relative.  Effective Jan. 1, 2012, depeding on where they reside in the U.S., domestic petitioners will mail their stand-alone I-130 applications to either the Chicago Lockbox or the Phoenix Lockbox.  The new filing locations will be updated with the corresponding addresses on Jan. 1, 2012 on the "Form I-130 Direct Filing Locations" page of the USCIS website.

According to USICS, this change will be made in an effort to balance workloads between the two locations and provide more efficient and effective processing of Form I-130.  There will be no change in filing locations when submitting Form I-130 in conjunction with Form I-485, Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status; individuals filing these forms together will continue to mail them to the Chicago Lockbox.  Petitioners filing from overseas addresses in countries without USCIS offices will also continue to file at the Chicago Lockbox.  Petitioners residing in a country with a USCIS office may send their I-130 forms to either the Chicago Lockbox, or at the international USCIS office having jurisdiction over the area where they live.

Szabo, Zelnick & Erickson, P.C.

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