USCIS Changes Filing Location for EB-5 Related Items
Office of Communications U.S. Citizenship And Immigration Services
USCIS Update Jan. 12, 2009
USCIS Changes Filing Location for EB-5 Related Items
WASHINGTON—U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced that petitions and
applications related to the Alien Entrepreneur (EB-5) immigrant classifications
and Regional Center Proposals under the EB-5 Immigrant Investor Pilot Program
must be filed at the California Service Center (CSC). A
Federal Register
notice announcing the change was
published on Jan. 9, 2009.
Currently, EB-5 petitions and
applications are filed at either the Texas Service Center (TSC) or the CSC,
depending on where the alien’s commercial enterprise is located. Regional center
proposals are currently submitted to the Chief of Service Center Operations at
USCIS headquarters. This change in filing locations is necessary to improve the
efficiency in the processing of EB-5 related filings.
USCIS has established a unit at the
California Service Center comprised of specially-trained adjudicators dedicated
to EB-5 adjudications. By consolidating adjudications at the center, USCIS
believes that it will be able to reduce overall processing times and better
monitor EB-5 related adjudications.
Filing changes are effective Jan.
26, 2009. For a 30-day period that began on Jan. 9 and ends Feb. 9, 2009, EB-5
related petitions and applications mailed to USCIS headquarters or the Texas
Service Center will be forwarded to the California Service Center. After
February 9, EB-5 petitions and applications received at an incorrect filing
location will be rejected and returned with instructions to re-file at the
correct address.
For direct mail, send to:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
California Service Center Attn:
EB-5 Processing Unit
P.O. Box 10526
Laguna Niguel, CA 92607-0526
For non-U.S. Postal Service
deliveries (e.g. private couriers), send to:
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
California Service Center Attn:
EB-5 Processing Unit
24000 Avila Road, 2nd Floor
Laguna Niquel, CA 92677
For more information, visit
www.uscis.gov or call the National Customer Service Center at (800) 375-5283.
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