Use this List of Immigration Field Offices to find the local Immigration office serving your state or county of residence. The "About Us" section of each field office home page will list its jurisdiction and geographical service area in detail. For information about Field Office Closings, please check the Field Office Closings page.

Some immigration benefit applications must be filed with one of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's (USCIS) four Service Centers, rather than with the local District or Sub Office in your area. This List of Immigration Field Offices, as well as your District and Sub Office home pages lists the Service Center with jurisdiction for your area.

You may also check the home page of the USCIS Service Centers to confirm those applications they accept, the addresses and zip codes to use when mailing applications to them, and their geographical service areas.

Special Note for Asylum Applicants: Please use this List of Immigration Field Offices to identify the Service Center to which you should send your Asylum Application, based on your state or country of residence. Do not send asylum applications to an Asylum Office. After applying, applicants will be notified of the Asylum Office they must report to for their interview. Details about the office where the interview will be conducted are included under "Asylum Office".

There are many kinds of immigration field offices located throughout the United States that provide assistance on United States immigration issues. Understanding what each kind of office does should help you determine which field office(s) are most relevant to your needs.

This List of Immigration Field Offices will help you find the Immigration field offices serving your place of residence. The following types of Immigration offices on the list include:

There are 33 Immigration District Offices in the United States. Each District Office, headed by a District Director, has a specified service area that may include part of a state or territory, an entire state, or many states. District Offices are where most immigration field staff are located. District Offices are responsible for enforcing immigration laws in that jurisdiction. Certain applications are filed directly with District Offices, many kinds of interviews are conducted at these Offices, and immigration staff are available to answer questions, provide forms, etc.

Some Immigration District Offices also have Sub Offices that serve a portion of the District's jurisdiction. A Sub Office, headed by an Officer-in-Charge, provides many services and enforcement functions. Their locations are determined, in part, to increase convenience to our customers. Additionally, there are other offices (satellite offices) which may offer limited services to the public. Information on these offices may be found on the District home pages.

Each District and Sub Office has a home page on this Website to provide customers with information about the Offices. Each home page is organized similarly for all field offices. The About Us under each field office home page contains most of the essential information about that Office, including information on:

Who Are We?
Where Are We?
Visiting Our Office
Contacting Us
Local Filing Procedures
Finding the Status of My Case
Other Immigration Offices Serving This Area

The USCIS Service Centers were established to handle the mail, file, data entry, and adjudication of most applications for immigration services and benefits. Those applications should be mailed to USCIS Service Centers -- Service Centers are not staffed to handle walk-in applications or answer questions. Three of the four Service Centers have established special Post Office boxes to receive applications mailed to the Center by applicants or petitioners residing in its service area. The applications and petitions processed by each Service Center are listed on its home page, as are the special Post Office box numbers and zip codes by form type for the Service Centers using them. Prospective applicants should look at this list of forms to confirm that they are accepted by the Service Center in their area.
 

(Form I-589) are also filed at Service Centers. Do not mail an initial asylum application to an Asylum Office. However, as the List demonstrates, asylum applications are not always filed at the same Service Center that accepts other applications from residents of that area. Therefore, prospective asylum applicants should check the List to determine with which Service Center they should file their asylum application.
 

USCIS has eight (8) Asylum Offices within the United States. The mission of the U.S. Asylum Program is to implement asylum laws in a way that is fair, timely, and consistent with international humanitarian principles and our domestic tradition of providing refuge for the oppressed. After you have filed an asylum application with the appropriate Service Center, the USCIS will notify you of the Asylum Office serving your area.

Please do not send asylum applications to an Asylum Office. The USCIS Service Center that accepts asylum applications from people in your area is indicated on the List. After your asylum application has been received, you will be notified where to go for your asylum interview.
 

Some immigration applications, such as the Application for Naturalization or the Application to Register Permanent Residence or Adjust Status, require the USCIS to conduct a FBI fingerprint background check on the applicant. Most applicants that require a background check will be scheduled to appear at a specific Application Support Center (ASC) or Designated Law Enforcement Agency (DLEA) for fingerprinting. The ASC list gives the addresses and hours of operation for all ASCs and DLEAs by State. For specific information regarding the fingerprinting process, click here.

[NOTE: Applicants are scheduled for an appointment at a specific ASC. On rare occasions, they are allowed to choose between more than one site. Please read your appointment notice carefully.]
 

There are three Regional Offices that supervise the work of the immigration Districts. The Regional Directors report to the Executive Associate Commissioner for Field Operations in Washington, DC. The three Regional Offices are located in (Eastern Region) Burlington, VT, (Central Region) Dallas, TX, and (Western Region) Laguna Niguel, CA.

The three Immigration Administrative Centers, co-located with the Regional Offices, are responsible for implementing administrative policy and delivering direct services within their geographic areas. Additionally there are consolidated select administrative services at five centers: the National Hiring Center in Twin Cities, MN is responsible for officer corps hiring; the National Records Center in Lee's Summit, MO is responsible for centralizing immigration file holdings and serving immigration file needs; the Dallas Finance Center is responsible for processing accounts payable; the Burlington Debt Management/Collection Center is responsible for processing accounts receivable; and the Payroll Accounting Center in Twin Cities is responsible for payroll reconciliation. All of these Centers deliver administrative support to immigration employees throughout the country -- in total, providing services for the functional areas of finance, budget, information resources management, human resources and development, security, equal employment opportunity, and administration.
 

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