USCIS Internet Resources
The USCIS provides a number of important resources on the Internet. We have attempted to compile a list of the most important and helpful of these. In addition, we have provided access to other important materials, not generally found on the Internet. If you cannot find what you need, a broken link, or are aware of a new link that you feel should be included, please contact us.
Significant USCIS Internet links:
- USCIS main page
- Immigration forms
- USCIS e-filing main page
- Immigration Handbooks, Manuals, and Policy Guidance
- Laws, Regulations and Guides
- Case status online
- Civil surgeon locator
- USCIS office processing times
- USCIS unpublished administrative decisions
- Immigration statistical reports
- USCIS Ombudsman
- Locate an application support center
- Online change of address
Significant USCIS materials:
- USCIS memo on H and L stay limits
- USCIS memo on H1b consulting companies ("employer-employee" relationship)
- Guidance on employment for E and H spouses, employment abroad for blanket L petitions
- Guidance on L visa reform (July 28, 2005)
- H1B stay beyond six years
- Request for H1B stay for extensions beyond six years
- Recapture of H and L time for maximum stay purposes
- USCIS memo concerning substitution of a new I-140 in a pending I-485 case
- AC21 May 30, 2008 Neufeld Memo
- AC21 June 6, 2006 Aytes Memo
- AC21 December 27, 2005 Aytes Memo
- AC21 Sept. 9, 2005, Yates Memo
- AC21 May 12, 2005, Yates Memo
- AC21 April 24, 2003, Yates Memo
- AC21 June 19, 2001 Pearson Memo
- AC21 Jan. 29, 2001 Pearson Memo
- July 14, 2008 USCIS memo on Section 245(k) issues
- Successor in interest guidance memo (August 6, 2009)
- USCIS Adjudicator's Field Manual: Documents and Translations
- USCIS Adjudicator's Field Manual: 40.9 Section 212(a)(9) of the Act - Aliens Unlawfully Present after Previous Immigration Violations
- Port of entry special registration SOP
- USCIS expedite criteria
- Memo extending the validity of medical exam results while AOS pending
- Child Status Protection Act Memo (Sept. 20, 2002)
- Child Status Protection Act Memo Number 2 (February 14, 2003)
- Child Status Protection Act Memo, Section 6 (March 23, 2004)
- Child Status Protection Act clarification (July, 2004)
- USCIS September, 2008 H1B Benefit Fraud & Compliance Assessment Report
- E-Verify Supplemental Guide for Federal Contractors
- USCIS confidential internal H1B fraud checklist
- RFE guidance memo (June 1, 2007)
- Extension of validity of medical exam results for AOS cases
- Public charge memorandum
- GAO report concerning FBI background checks and fraud
- Westat report on E-Verify implementation and accuracy
- USCIS Update: combined advance parole and EAD cards
- USCIS FAQ: combined advance parole and EAD cards
- USCIS policy memo: combined advance parole/EAD cards
- DHS Inspector General: Examining Insider Threat Risk at USCIS
- USCIS processing by form type, FY 2011
- Worksite audit best practices
- OPT Q&A
- OPT final rule
USCIS Standard operating procedures (SOP)
- USCIS I-90 (replacement green card) SOP
- USCIS I-129 H1B SOP
- USCIS I-130 (relative petition) SOP
- USCIS I-140 (worker petition) SOP
- USCIS I-485 (adjustment of status - general processing) SOP
- USCIS I-485 (adjustment of status - adjudications) SOP
- USCIS I-539 (change of nonimmigrant status) SOP
- USCIS I-765 (EAD card) SOP
- USCIS Special Registration SOP
Significant cases:
- Matter of Cavazos (preconceived intent)
- Matter of Al Wazzan, (USCIS can deny unadjudicated I-140 notwithstanding the passage of 180 days)
- Ahmed v. Holder (appellant should not bear the burden of AAO delays)
- Construction and Design Co. v. USCIS (USCIS ability to pay analysis methodology badly flawed)
- Samirah v. Holder (advance parole decision)
