News Update - January 2, 2009

By Alan Lee, Esq.^†‡

U.S.C.I.S. Changing Location for Filing for Naturalization Applications as of 1/22/09

U.S.C.I.S. announced on December 23, 2008, that it would be changing the location for filing N-400 applications for naturalization on January 22, 2009. Applications which are sent to the incorrect address will be routed to the correct location for 30 days thereafter, but applications received thereafter will be rejected. U.S.C.I.S. will have three filing locations. Those in the Armed Forces will file in Lincoln, NE., those in the West and Midwest to Phoenix, AZ., and those on the East Coast and South to Lewisville, TX.

Persons in the armed forces or their spouses will file to:

Postal Service:

Nebraska Service Center,
P.O. Box 87426,
Lincoln, NE. 68501-7426

Courier and express mail deliveries:

Nebraska Service Center
850 S. St.,
Lincoln, NE. 68508

Nonmilitary applications for persons residing in Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, D.C., Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, or the U.S. Virgin Islands will go to:

Post Office delivery -
USCIS
P.O. Box 299026
Lewisville, TX 75029

Private courier -
USCIS
Attn: N-400
2501 S. State Hwy 121, Bldg. 4
Lewisville, TX 75067

Nonmilitary applications for persons residing in Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Territory of Guam, or the Northern Mariana Islands will go to:

Post Office delivery -
USCIS
P.O. Box 21251
Phoenix, AZ 85036

Private courier -
USCIS
Attn: N-400
1820 E Skyharbor Circle S. Floor 1
Phoenix, AZ 85036

† The author is a 26+ year practitioner of immigration law based in New York City. He was awarded the Sidney A. Levine prize for best legal writing at the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 1977 and has written extensively on immigration over the past years for the ethnic newspapers, World Journal, Sing Tao, Pakistan Calling, Muhasha and OCS. He has testified as an expert on immigration in civil court proceedings and was recognized by the Taiwan government in 1985 for his work protecting human rights. His article, "The Bush Temporary Worker Proposal and Comparative Pending Legislation: an Analysis" was Interpreter Releases' cover display article at the American Immigration Lawyers Association annual conference in 2004, and his victory in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in a case of first impression nationwide, Firstland International v. INS, successfully challenged INS' policy of over 40 years of revoking approved immigrant visa petitions under a nebulous standard of proof. Its value as precedent, however, was short-lived as it was specifically targeted by the Administration in the Intelligence Reform Act of 2004.

‡ This article © 2009 Alan Lee, Esq.

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