Table of Contents
- Part A - Public Services
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Web-Based Information
- Chapter 3 - Forms of Assistance
- Chapter 4 - Service Request Management Tool
- Chapter 5 - Expedite Requests
- Chapter 6 - Disability Accommodation Requests
- Chapter 7 - Privacy and Confidentiality
- Chapter 8 - Conduct in USCIS Facilities
- Chapter 9 - Feedback, Complaints, Misconduct, and Discrimination
- Part C - Biometrics Collection and Security Checks
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Biometrics Collection
- Chapter 3 - Security Checks [Reserved]
- Part E - Adjudications
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Record of Proceeding
- Chapter 3 - Jurisdiction
- Chapter 4 - Burden and Standards of Proof
- Chapter 5 - Verification of Identifying Information
- Chapter 6 - Evidence
- Chapter 7 - Interviews [Reserved]
- Chapter 8 - Discretionary Analysis
- Chapter 9 - Rendering a Decision
- Chapter 10 - Post-Decision Actions
- Part G - Notice to Appear
- Part A - Nonimmigrant Policies and Procedures
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - General Requirements [Reserved]
- Chapter 3 - Maintaining Status [Reserved]
- Chapter 4 - Extension of Stay, Change of Status, and Extension of Petition Validity
- Part C - Visitors for Business or Tourism (B)
- Part D - Exchange Visitors (J)
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - J Exchange Visitor Eligibility
- Chapter 3 - Terms and Conditions of J Exchange Visitor Status
- Chapter 4 - Waiver of the Foreign Residence Requirement
- Chapter 5 - Change of Status, Extensions of Stay, Program Transfers, and Reinstatement
- Chapter 6 - Family Members of J-1 Exchange Visitor
- Part F - Students (F, M)
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
- Chapter 3 - Courses and Enrollment, Full Course of Study, and Reduced Course Load
- Chapter 4 - School Transfer
- Chapter 5 - Practical Training
- Chapter 6 - Employment
- Chapter 7 - Absences From the United States
- Chapter 8 - Change of Status, Extension of Stay, and Length of Stay
- Chapter 9 - Dependents
- Part I - Temporary Agricultural and Nonagricultural Workers (H-2)
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility for Temporary Agricultural Worker (H-2A) Classification [Reserved]
- Chapter 3 - Documentation and Evidence for Temporary Agricultural Worker (H-2A) Classification [Reserved]
- Chapter 4 - Adjudication of Temporary Agricultural Worker (H-2A) Petitions [Reserved]
- Chapter 5 - Post-Adjudication Issues related to Temporary Agricultural Worker (H-2A) Petitions [Reserved]
- Chapter 6 - Temporary Agricultural Worker (H-2A) Petitions Requiring Special Handling [Reserved]
- Chapter 7 - Eligibility for Temporary Nonagricultural Worker (H-2B) Classification [Reserved]
- Chapter 8 - Documentation and Evidence for Temporary Nonagricultural Worker (H-2B) Classification [Reserved]
- Chapter 9 - Adjudication of Temporary Nonagricultural Worker (H-2B) Petitions [Reserved]
- Chapter 10 - Post-Adjudication Issues related to Temporary Nonagricultural Worker (H-2B) Petitions [Reserved]
- Chapter 11 - Temporary Nonagricultural Worker (H-2B) Petitions Requiring Special Handling
- Part J - Trainees (H-3)
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - H-3 Categories
- Chapter 3 - Trainee Program Requirements
- Chapter 4 - Special Education Exchange Visitor Program Requirements
- Chapter 5 - Family Members of H-3 Beneficiaries
- Chapter 6 - Adjudication
- Chapter 7 - Admissions, Extensions of Stay, and Change of Status
- Part L - Intracompany Transferees (L)
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - General Eligibility
- Chapter 3 - Managers and Executives (L-1A)
- Chapter 4 - Specialized Knowledge Beneficiaries (L-1B)
- Chapter 5 - Ownership and Control
- Chapter 6 - Key Concepts
- Chapter 7 - Filing
- Chapter 8 - Documentation and Evidence
- Chapter 9 - Adjudication
- Chapter 10 - Period of Stay
- Part M - Nonimmigrants of Extraordinary Ability or Achievement (O)
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility for O Classification
- Chapter 3 - Petitioners
- Chapter 4 - O-1 Beneficiaries
- Chapter 5 - O-2 Beneficiaries
- Chapter 6 - Family Members
- Chapter 7 - Documentation and Evidence
- Chapter 8 - Adjudication
- Chapter 9 - Admission, Extension of Stay, Change of Status, and Change of Employer
- Part A - Protection and Parole Policies and Procedures
- Part B - Victims of Trafficking
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
- Chapter 3 - Documentation and Evidence for Principal Applicants
- Chapter 4 - Family Members
- Chapter 5 - Documentation and Evidence for Family Members
- Chapter 6 - Bona Fide Determinations
- Chapter 7 - Adjudication
- Chapter 8 - Annual Cap and Waiting List
- Chapter 9 - Applicants in Removal Proceedings
- Chapter 10 - Duration and Extensions of Status
- Chapter 11 - Federal Benefits and Work Authorization
- Chapter 12 - Travel Outside the United States
- Chapter 13 - Revocation of Status
- Chapter 14 - Confidentiality Protections and Prohibitions Against Disclosure
- Part C - Victims of Crimes
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements for U Nonimmigrant Status
- Chapter 3 - Documentation and Evidence [Reserved]
- Chapter 4 - Adjudication
- Chapter 5 - Bona Fide Determination Process
- Chapter 6 - Waiting List
- Chapter 7 - Final Adjudication
- Chapter 8 - Post-Adjudicative Matters [Reserved]
- Part C - Child Eligibility Determinations (Orphan)
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility
- Chapter 3 - Identity and Age
- Chapter 4 - Eligibility Requirements Specific to Orphans
- Chapter 5 - Qualifying Adoptive or Custodial Relationship
- Chapter 6 - Additional Requirements
- Chapter 7 - Documentation and Evidence
- Chapter 8 - Adjudication
- Chapter 9 - Pre-Adoption Immigration Review Programs
- Part D - Child Eligibility Determinations (Hague)
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility
- Chapter 3 - Identity and Age
- Chapter 4 - Eligibility Requirements Specific to Convention Adoptees
- Chapter 5 - Qualifying Adoptive or Custodial Relationship
- Chapter 6 - Additional Requirements
- Chapter 7 - Required Order of Immigration and Adoption Steps
- Chapter 8 - Documentation and Evidence
- Chapter 9 - Adjudication
- Part B - Family-Based Immigrants
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Principles Common to Family-Based Petitions [Reserved]
- Chapter 3 - Filing
- Chapter 4 - Documentation and Evidence for Family-Based Petitions [Reserved]
- Chapter 5 - Adjudication of Family-Based Petitions
- Chapter 6 - Post-Adjudication of Family-Based Petitions [Reserved]
- Chapter 7 - Spouses [Reserved]
- Chapter 8 - Children, Sons, and Daughters
- Chapter 9 - Parents of U.S. Citizens [Reserved]
- Chapter 10 - Siblings of U.S. Citizens [Reserved]
- Part E - Employment-Based Immigration
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
- Chapter 3 - Successor-in-Interest in Permanent Labor Certification Cases
- Chapter 4 - Ability to Pay
- Chapter 5 - Reserved
- Chapter 6 - Permanent Labor Certification
- Chapter 7 - Schedule A Designation Petitions
- Chapter 8 - Documentation and Evidence
- Chapter 9 - Evaluation of Education Credentials
- Chapter 10 - Decision and Post-Adjudication
- Part G - Investors
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Immigrant Petition Eligibility Requirements
- Chapter 3 - Immigrant Petition Adjudication
- Chapter 4 - Regional Center Applications
- Chapter 5 - Project Applications
- Chapter 6 - Direct and Third-Party Promoters
- Chapter 7 - Removal of Conditions
- Chapter 8 - Sanctions and Discretionary Determinations
- Part H - Designated and Special Immigrants
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Religious Workers
- Chapter 3 - Panama Canal Zone Employees
- Chapter 4 - Certain Physicians [Reserved]
- Chapter 5 - Certain G-4 or NATO-6 Employees and their Family Members [Reserved]
- Chapter 6 - Members of the U.S. Armed Forces
- Chapter 7 - Certain Broadcasters [Reserved]
- Chapter 8 - Certain Iraqi Nationals
- Chapter 9 - Certain Afghan Nationals
- Chapter 10 - Certain Iraqi and Afghan Translators and Interpreters
- Chapter 11 - Decision and Post-Adjudication
- Part I - Family-Based Conditional Permanent Residents
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Terms and Conditions of CPR Status
- Chapter 3 - Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence
- Chapter 4 - Joint Petitions and Individual Filing Requests
- Chapter 5 - Waiver of Joint Filing Requirement
- Chapter 6 - Decision and Post-Adjudication
- Chapter 7 - Effect of Removal Proceedings
- Part A - Adjustment of Status Policies and Procedures
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
- Chapter 3 - Filing Instructions
- Chapter 4 - Documentation
- Chapter 5 - Interview Guidelines
- Chapter 6 - Adjudicative Review
- Chapter 7 - Child Status Protection Act
- Chapter 8 - Transfer of Underlying Basis
- Chapter 9 - Death of Petitioner or Principal Beneficiary
- Chapter 10 - Legal Analysis and Use of Discretion
- Chapter 11 - Decision Procedures
- Part B - 245(a) Adjustment
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
- Chapter 3 - Unlawful Immigration Status at Time of Filing (INA 245(c)(2))
- Chapter 4 - Status and Nonimmigrant Visa Violations (INA 245(c)(2) and INA 245(c)(8))
- Chapter 5 - Employment-Based Applicant Not in Lawful Nonimmigrant Status (INA 245(c)(7))
- Chapter 6 - Unauthorized Employment (INA 245(c)(2) and INA 245(c)(8))
- Chapter 7 - Other Barred Adjustment Applicants
- Chapter 8 - Inapplicability of Bars to Adjustment
- Part E - Employment-Based Adjustment
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background [Reserved]
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements [Reserved]
- Chapter 3 - Immigrant Visa Availability and Priority Dates [Reserved]
- Chapter 4 - Documentation and Evidence [Reserved]
- Chapter 5 - Job Portability after Adjustment Filing and Other AC21 Provisions
- Chapter 6 - Adjudication [Reserved]
- Chapter 7 - National Interest Waiver Physicians [Reserved]
- Part F - Special Immigrant-Based Adjustment
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Religious Workers
- Chapter 3 - International Employees of U.S. Government Abroad
- Chapter 4 - Panama Canal Zone Employees
- Chapter 5 - Certain Physicians
- Chapter 6 - Certain G-4 or NATO-6 Employees and their Family Members
- Chapter 7 - Special Immigrant Juveniles
- Chapter 8 - Members of the U.S. Armed Forces
- Chapter 9 - Certain Broadcasters
- Chapter 10 - Certain Afghan and Iraqi Nationals
- Part H - Reserved
- Part O - Registration
- Chapter 1 - Presumption of Lawful Admission
- Chapter 2 - Presumption of Lawful Admission Despite Certain Errors Occurring at Entry
- Chapter 3 - Children Born in the United States to Accredited Diplomats
- Chapter 4 - Noncitizens Who Entered the United States Prior to January 1, 1972
- Chapter 5 - Other Special Laws
- Part P - Other Adjustment Programs
- Chapter 1 - Reserved
- Chapter 2 - Reserved
- Chapter 3 - Reserved
- Chapter 4 - Reserved
- Chapter 5 - Liberian Refugee Immigration Fairness
- Chapter 6 - Reserved
- Chapter 7 - Reserved
- Chapter 8 - Reserved
- Chapter 9 - Amerasian Immigrants
- Chapter 10 - Reserved
- Part R - Abandonment of Lawful Permanent Residence
- Part A - Admissibility Policies and Procedures
- Part B - Health-Related Grounds of Inadmissibility
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Medical Examination and Vaccination Record
- Chapter 3 - Applicability of Medical Examination and Vaccination Requirement
- Chapter 4 - Review of Medical Examination Documentation
- Chapter 5 - Review of Overall Findings
- Chapter 6 - Communicable Diseases of Public Health Significance
- Chapter 7 - Physical or Mental Disorder with Associated Harmful Behavior
- Chapter 8 - Drug Abuse or Drug Addiction
- Chapter 9 - Vaccination Requirement
- Chapter 10 - Other Medical Conditions
- Chapter 11 - Inadmissibility Determination
- Chapter 12 - Waiver Authority
- Part D - Criminal and Related Grounds of Inadmissibility
- Part E - Terrorism
- Part F - National Security and Related Grounds of Inadmissibility
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background [Reserved]
- Chapter 2 - [Reserved]
- Chapter 3 - Immigrant Membership in Totalitarian Party
- Part G - Public Charge Ground of Inadmissibility
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Definitions
- Chapter 3 - Applicability
- Chapter 4 - Prospective Determination Based on the Totality of the Circumstances
- Chapter 5 - Statutory Minimum Factors
- Chapter 6 - Affidavit of Support Under Section 213A of the INA
- Chapter 7 - Consideration of Current and/or Past Receipt of Public Cash Assistance for Income Maintenance or Long-term Institutionalization at Government Expense
- Chapter 8 - Waivers of Inadmissibility Based on Public Charge Ground
- Chapter 9 - Adjudicating Public Charge Inadmissibility for Adjustment of Status Applications
- Chapter 10 - Public Charge Bonds
- Chapter 11 - Public Charge Bonds: Posting and Accepting Bonds
- Chapter 12 - Public Charge Bonds: Maintaining, Substituting, and Canceling Bonds
- Part H - Labor Certification and Select Immigrant Qualifications
- Part L - Documentation Requirements
- Part M - Citizenship Ineligibility
- Part N - Noncitizens Previously Removed
- Part O - Noncitizens Unlawfully Present
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background [Reserved]
- Chapter 2 - Reserved
- Chapter 3 - Reserved
- Chapter 4 - Reserved
- Chapter 5 - Reserved
- Chapter 6 - Effect of Seeking Admission Following Accrual of Unlawful Presence
- Part Q - Practicing Polygamists, International Child Abductors, Unlawful Voters, and Tax Evaders
- Part C - Family Unity, Humanitarian Purposes, or Public or National Interest
- Part E - Criminal and Related Grounds of Inadmissibility
- Part G - Unlawful Presence
- Part H - Provisional Unlawful Presence
- Part I - Immigrant Membership in Totalitarian Party
- Part J - Alien Smuggling
- Part K - Noncitizens Subject to Civil Penalty
- Part L - Refugees and Asylees
- Part M - Temporary Protected Status Applicants
- Part N - Special Immigrant Juvenile Adjustment Applicants
- Part P - Crime Victims
- Part Q - Violence Against Women Act Applicants
- Part R - Other Waivers and Provisions Overcoming Inadmissibility
- Part A - Employment Authorization Policies and Procedures
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
- Chapter 3 - Documentation and Evidence [Reserved]
- Chapter 4 - Adjudication
- Chapter 5 - Reserved
- Chapter 6 - Card Production and Card Correction [Reserved]
- Chapter 7 - Post-Decision Actions [Reserved]
- Part D - General Naturalization Requirements
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Lawful Permanent Resident Admission for Naturalization
- Chapter 3 - Continuous Residence
- Chapter 4 - Physical Presence
- Chapter 5 - Modifications and Exceptions to Continuous Residence and Physical Presence
- Chapter 6 - Jurisdiction, Place of Residence, and Early Filing
- Chapter 7 - Attachment to the Constitution
- Chapter 8 - Educational Requirements
- Chapter 9 - Good Moral Character
- Part H - Children of U.S. Citizens
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - Definition of Child and Residence for Citizenship and Naturalization
- Chapter 3 - U.S. Citizens at Birth (INA 301 and 309)
- Chapter 4 - Automatic Acquisition of Citizenship after Birth (INA 320)
- Chapter 5 - Child Residing Outside the United States (INA 322)
- Chapter 6 - Special Provisions for the Naturalization of Children
- Chapter 7 - Deriving Citizenship Before the Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (Former INA 321 and 320)
- Part I - Military Members and their Families
- Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
- Chapter 2 - One Year of Military Service during Peacetime (INA 328)
- Chapter 3 - Military Service during Hostilities (INA 329)
- Chapter 4 - Permanent Bars to Naturalization
- Chapter 5 - Application and Filing for Service Members (INA 328 and 329)
- Chapter 6 - Required Background Checks
- Chapter 7 - Revocation of Naturalization
- Chapter 8 - Posthumous Citizenship (INA 329A)
- Chapter 9 - Spouses, Children, and Surviving Family Benefits
Current as of November 26, 2024