USCIS Immigration Forms

• WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used when you would like to request the return of your original documents that you have included in your Application or Petition. This form is only used when you have submitted your original documents when you only needed to submit a copy of the original documents. 

WHO CAN FILE IT: 

Anyone who has already established his or her eligibility for immigration benefit or citizenship and who had submitted an original document which is not required by the USCIS.

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used when you want the USCIS to send you a text message to your phone or email you that they have received your application or Petition. The message does not contain any personal information but only your receipt number. Your receipt number will help you track your petition and status with the USCIS online.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

Anyone who wants to file an application or a petition with the USCIS. 

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used if you want to pay the USCIS Filing Fee and Biometric Fee using your credit card. 

WHO CAN FILE IT:

Anyone who needs to file any form to establish an immigration benefit can use this form.  Please note that if you are using this form make sure that you have not reached your credit limit at the time the USCIS would charge their fees on your card. Otherwise, your application would be denied. 

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR: 

This form is used when:

1.  You want to replace your green card because it has been destroyed, lost, stolen, mutilated, contains errors or incorrect data. 

2.  Your card will expire in the next six months or has already expired. 

3.  Your card is an old edition and you need to get an updated one. 

4.  You have reached your 14th birthday but your card will expire on your 16th birthday and you need to get a new card.

5.  You have been previously given a green card by the USCIS and you have not received it.

6.  Your old card contains your old name and that you had your name legally changed and you want to replace your old green card in your old name with your new legal name.

WHO CAN FILE IT: 

Green card holders.

USCIS FILING FEE: $540 which includes the $85 Biometrics Fee in most cases. Please note that there are some cases that only the Biometric fee is needed. In some cases, no filing fees are needed. Note: Effective October 2, 2020,  online filing fee is $405.00 and paper filing is $415.00. Biometrics fee is $30.00. 

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used when you want to bring you fiance(e) to the US. If your Fiance(e) has children, you can bring them here along with your fiance(e). You can also use this form to bring your alien spouse to the country to wait for the availability of his or her immigrant visa. If your alien spouse has children, you can use this form to bring them to the US.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

You can file it for your fiance(e) and his or her unmarried and under 21 year old children that she or he might bring along or your alien spouse and his or her unmarried and under 21 year old children.

USCIS FILING FEE: $535.00. ATTENTION: On October 2, 2020 the filing fee will be $510.00.

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used when you want to bring your alien relatives to the US. This form will establish the existence of your relationship to them.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

If you are a US Citizen, you can use this form if you want to bring to the US your alien spouse, your unmarried children under 21 years old, unmarried children 21 years old and older, married children of any age, brothers or sisters as long as you are 21 years of age and your mother or father as long as you are also 21 years of age.

If you are a Legal Permanent Resident, you can use this form to bring your spouse and unmarried children under 21 years old and unmarried children 21 years old or older.

USCIS FILING FEE: $535.00

WHAT IS THE FORM FOR:

You can use this form if you are a Lawful Permanent Resident or a Conditional Permanent Resident and you want to be admitted to the US upon returning from abroad. During the permit’s validity, you can enter US without the need to get a returning resident visa from a US Embassy or Consulate.

If you are here in the US and you are still in the process of becoming a Lawful Permanent Resident, you will use this form to apply for Advance Parole Document if you wish to travel abroad without abandoning your application for adjustment of status.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

A Lawful Permanent Resident seeking re-entry to the US can file the form or an alien with pending I-485 or an application to adjust status and you want to travel abroad for urgent humanitarian reasons or in furtherance of a significant public benefit while your Application is pending.

USCIS FILING FEE: FREE if this form is included with the filing of I-485. $660 (includes form fee and biometrics service fee) if filed alone. ATTENTION: On October 2, 2020, the filing fee will be $590.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This is form is used when you are sponsoring a foreign national to come to the US who is inadmissible on public charge grounds. 

WHO CAN FILE IT:

A US Citizen or a Lawful Permanent Resident who wishes to bring a foreign national to the US.

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

You will used this form to apply for lawful permanent resident status and get your green card.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

You may apply as a Principal Applicant. This is usually the beneficiary of an immigrant petition (I-129F, I-130 etc) or if you are qualified to apply for an adjustment of status. You may also apply as a Derivative Applicant if you are the spouse or the children of the Principal Applicant and are also not beneficiary of their own immigrant petition. The word “child” under the Immigration Law means “unmarried and under 21 years of age”.

USCIS FILING FEE: $ 1,140.00  ATTENTION: On October 2, 2020, the filing fee will be $1,130.00

WHAT IS THE FORM FOR:

You will use this form to extend your stay in the US or change into another non-immigrant status.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

If you are a non-immigrant (A-V Visa holders) and you want to file an extension to stay, you can use this form.  Except those aliens in transit (C) or in transit without a visa (TWOV); a crewman (D); or Fiance(e) or dependent of a fiance(e). 

NOTE: K3 and K4 visa holders can file for an extension while their I-130 is being process and up to the time their adjustment of status is completed.

USCIS FILING FEE: $370.00. For a V visaholder (spouse and child of a Lawful Permanent Resident) the additional $85 Biometrics Service Fee is needed. ATTENTION: On October 2, 2020, the online filing fee will be $390 and the paper filing will be $400.00. The biometrics fee will only be $30.00.

WHAT IS THE FORM FOR:

You will use this form if you are a conditional resident and you wish to remove the conditions on your residence.

WHO CAN FILE IT: 

If you have a conditional resident status because of your marriage to your US citizen spouse, you will use this form to file for the removal of the conditions on your residence with your US spouse if you are still married.  If you have dependent children who acquired their status the same day as you, include them in your petition. If you are a son or daughter of a deceased conditional resident, you can used this form to file on your own. Please note that if you have siblings, you must all file a separate I-751 on your own to remove the conditions.

WHEN SHOULD I FILE THIS FORM: 

This form should be filed DURING the 90 day period immediately before your conditional residence status expires.

USCIS FILING FEE: $ 680.00.  ATTENTION: On October 2, 2020, the filing fee will be $760.00.

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used when a foreign national is seeking to be authorized to work in the United States.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

For as long as you fall with the eligible categories provided by the USCIS you can use this form to file your application.

USCIS FILING FEE: $495.00 (Filing fee and Biometrics Fee)    ATTENTION: On October 2, 2020, the filing fee will be $550. Biometrics fee will be $30.00 instead of $85.00.

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used when a foreign national is seeking to be authorized to work in the United States.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

For as long as you fall with the eligible categories provided by the USCIS you can use this form to file your application.

USCIS FILING FEE: $495.00 (Filing fee and Biometrics Fee)

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is needed for most family-based immigrants. Some employment-based also need this form to show that they will not likely become a public charge in the future.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

This form is required to be completed by a petitioner seeking to obtain an immigrant visa or to adjust status to lawful permanent resident. Immigrants such as the immediate relatives (spouse, unmarried children below 21 years of age and parents  of the US citizens who are 21 years and older) will use this form. All family-based preference immigrants (unmarried sons and daughters of US citizen, spouses and unmarried sons and daughters of lawful permanent residents, married sons and daughters of US citizens and brothers and sisters of US citizens who are 21 years old and older) will use this for to file their I-485 and in cases of employment-based preference immigrants, if their relative who is either a US citizen, lawful permanent resident or a US national filed an immigrant visa petition or when such relative owns 5 percent or more of the interest in the entity (company) that filed the petition.

WHO ARE EXEMPTED FROM FILING IT:

-You don’t need to file this form if you are an intending immigrant who has earned or received credit for 40 qualifying quarters of work in the United States. You can also get a credit for your spouse’s work during your marriage and your parents’ work while you were under 18 years of age.

-You also don’t need to file this form if you intend to immigrate in the US and upon your admission you will acquire a US citizenship under chapter 4 of the INA (320) on Automatic Acquisition of Citizenship after birth. 

-You also do not need to file this form if you petition yourself as a widow or widower with an approved I-360, widow or widower or special immigrant.

-If you petition yourself as a battered spouse or child who have an approved I-360, you do not need to file with form.

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used when the income/assets of the sponsor is not enough to support the intending immigrant. Each household member whose income/assets is used by the sponsor to meet the requirements of I-864, will have to use this form. By signing this form the household member  will be responsible along with the sponsor for the support of the intending immigrant. His obligation will only end when the sponsor’s obligation ends under the I-864. 

WHO CAN FILE IT:

If you are a member of the household of the sponsor who is at least 18 years old (spouse, parent, adult son and daughter, siblings of the sponsor) and who lives with the sponsor, you may sign this form. Also, if you are an individual who is a dependent of the sponsor in his Federal Income Tax even if you don’t live with the sponsor and has a different address, you may sign this form. 

If you are an intending immigrant and the sponsor needs your income to qualify, you may sign this form as long as you are the spouse of the the sponsor, accompanied by dependents and that your income comes from a lawful source even after the acquisition of the lawful residence and you live in the same address of the sponsor. If the sponsor needs your assets only, you don’t need to complete this form.

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is for sponsors who filed the I-864. If the sponsor changed his address he needs to submit this form to the USCIS.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

If you are a sponsor who filed the I-864 and that you have changed your address, you need to file this form with the USCIS within 30 days of the change of address if the sponsorship agreement is still in full force. The sponsorship only ends when the immigrant becomes a US citizen, dies, receives credit for 40 quarters of work, leaves US permanently or in removal proceedings and lost his lawful permanent resident status of which you are the sponsor.

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

If you are unable to pay the filing fees and the biometric fees for forms that are eligible for a fee waiver, you may file this form 

NOTE: On deciding whether you qualify for a fee waiver, your inadmissibility is not considered but if you are approved and your fee is waived this may negatively impact your eligibility to receive an immigration benefit (like green card) that is subject to public charge determination.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

Anyone who qualifies under the fee waiver eligible forms except DACA applicants. There are no fee waivers for DACA. Some forms of the USCIS provide for a fee exceptions, applicants don’t need to file this form with their applications or petitions. An example of this is when you file for I-765 and I-131 with your I-485. The I-765 and I-131 are both free if filed together with the I-485. Both forms will not be fee exempt if filed after the I-485 has been filed.

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used to reduce the filing fees for N-400, Application for Naturalization. 

WHO CAN FILE IT:

You can request to reduce your filing fee for the N-400 if your documented annual income is between 150-200 percent of the Federal Poverty Guidelines. Also if you and your family are simultaneously filing for N-400, you and your family members can request for a reduction of all your filing fees but using this form and filing it together with all your N-400 applications. Please note that biometrics fee is not reduced. 

Use the I-912  if you are requesting for a full fee waiver.

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THE FORM FOR:

The form is used to apply for naturalization.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

You can use this form to apply for naturalization when you have all the requirements to become one and that is if you are:

• 18 years of age at the time of filing this form;
• a permanent resident of the United States for a required period of time;
• living for 3 months before filing your application in the state where you are claiming residence;
• physically present in United States for a required period of time;
• continuously residing in the United States for a required period of time;
• showing good moral character;
• showing that you have an attachment to the ideals of the US Constitution;
• showing basic knowledge of US history and government;
• able to understand, speak, read and write basic English;
• taking a oath of allegiance to the United States.

USCIS FILING FEE: $725.00 (Filing fee and Biometrics Fee)   ATTENTION: On October 2, 2020, the online filing fee will be $1,160 and the paper filing will be $1,170.00 plus biometrics fee of $30.00.

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used to apply for a replacement of your:

• Certificate of Naturalization
• Certificate of Citizenship
• Declaration of Intention
• Repatriation Certificate
• Special Certificate of naturalization to be recognized by a foreign country as a US Citizen

WHO CAN FILE IT:

You can apply for a replacement if:

• your certificate was lost, stolen, destroyed or mutilated
• your certificate was issued with typographical errors
• you have a name change either by marriage or court order
• you have a court order changing your date of birth and you want your certificate to have the new date of birth
• you have a court order changing your gender and you want your certificate to reflect your new gender
• you are a naturalized citizen and you want a special certificate of naturalization so that a foreign country can recognize you as a US citizen

USCIS FILING FEE: $555.00  ATTENTION: On October 2, 2020, the online filing fee will be $535.00 and the paper filing fee will be $545.00.

WHAT IS THE FORM FOR:

This form is used to file an application for a Certificate of Citizenship. This form is not a request to become a US citizen but a request to get a certificate that recognizes that you became a US citizen on a particular date. 

Note that there are conditions that must be met before you turn 18 years of age. If you have met all the conditions before your 18th birthday and you were under 18 years of age on February 27, 2001, you can file this application to get a Certificate of Citizenship. Even if you are under 18 years of age on February 27, 2001 but not all the conditions were met while you were under 18 years of age, you have to qualify for US citizenship in your own right.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

If you are born outside of the United States to a US Citizen parent, you can use this form to request for a Certificate of Citizenship, OR if you automatically became a US citizen after birth but before you turn 18 years old, you can also use this form. If you are a legal guardian or a parent you can also use this form to file on behalf of your minor child.

An adopted child can also acquire citizenship through his or her US citizen adoptive parent. You can file this application if you claim to have acquired US citizenship through your US Citizen parent and you are now 18 years of age or you are the US citizen parent or legal guardian who has legal and physical custody of the adopted or biological child under 18 years of age.

WHO CANNOT FILE IT:

You cannot file this form if:

• you don’t have at least one US Citizen  biological or adoptive parent;
• you are a child of a US Citizen parents who regularly resides outside the United States;
• you were born out-of-wedlock and you have not been legitimated before your 16th birthday and your US citizen parent is your father. NOTE: if you were born abroad to an eligible US citizen mother, you may also be eligible through the naturalization of your mother.

USCIS FILING FEE: $1,170.00.  ATTENTION: On October 2, 2020, the online filing will be $990.00 and the paper filing will be $1,000.00.

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is filed for the issuance of a Certificate of Citizenship for a child who regularly resides outside of the United States.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

A US Citizen parent who has both legal and physical custody of the child (biological or adopted) under 18 years of age. The US Citizen parent must regularly reside outside the US and wants naturalization for the child under INA Section 322 OR the qualifying US Citizen parent has died, the US Citizen grandparent or the US Citizen legal guardian must file this form with five years of the death of the US citizen parent.

The US Citizen grandparent of the child can also file this form as long as the US Citizen grandparent has met the physical presence requirement prior to the US citizen parent’s death.

The US citizen legal guardian you can also file this form in behalf of the child. The US Citizen legal guardian does not need to met the physical presence requirement.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR CITIZENSHIP UNDER INA 322:

A child may acquire US citizenship if he or she has all of the following:

• The child is not married;
• The USCIS had administer the Oath of Allegiance to the child before turning 18 years old;
• The child regularly resides outside the United States;
• The child is in the legal and physical custody of the US citizen parent;
• The child’s US citizen’s parent has been physically present in the US for a period(s) totaling to 5 years and at least 2 of which were after 14 years of age. If the US citizen parent does not qualify, the US citizen grandparent must met the requirement for the US citizen parent.
• The child is temporarily present in the United States at the time of the interview in a lawful status based on a lawful admission. Note: it is the responsibility of the US citizen parent or the US citizen grandparent or US citizen legal guardian to secure a visa for the child’s lawful admission to the United States. The USCIS cannot assist in obtaining any necessary visa or document.
• For a child of the member of the USAF: The child does not need to have temporary physical presence, lawful admission and maintenance of status requirements to be eligible for naturalization under the INA 322. The entire process will be completed outside the US.  
• For a child of the US citizen who is and was serving in the USAF, the US citizen parent may count the time he or she spend abroad under official military orders as part of the required five years physical presence as long as the child resides with the service member under official military orders at the time of the filing.
• For adopted child, if the child was adopted under the Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention, the person submitting the petition must file the adoption decree and copy of the approval of I-800. If the US citizen parent adopted an orphan, then the person submitting this form must file the adoption decree with approval notice of I-600. For other adoption cases, the child has been adopted before his 16th  birthday, in legal custody of the adopting US citizen parent for at least two years and is residing with the US citizen adopting parent for at least two years.

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is filed for the issuance of a Certificate of Citizenship for a child who regularly resides outside of the United States.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

A US Citizen parent who has both legal and physical custody of the child (biological or adopted) under 18 years of age. The US Citizen parent must regularly reside outside the US and wants naturalization for the child under INA Section 322 OR the qualifying US Citizen parent has died, the US Citizen grandparent or the US Citizen legal guardian must file this form with five years of the death of the US citizen parent.

The US Citizen grandparent of the child can also file this form as long as the US Citizen grandparent has met the physical presence requirement prior to the US citizen parent’s death.

The US citizen legal guardian you can also file this form in behalf of the child. The US Citizen legal guardian does not need to met the physical presence requirement.

WHO IS ELIGIBLE FOR CITIZENSHIP UNDER INA 322:

A child may acquire US citizenship if he or she has all of the following:

• The child is not married;
• The USCIS had administer the Oath of Allegiance to the child before turning 18 years old;
• The child regularly resides outside the United States;
• The child is in the legal and physical custody of the US citizen parent;
• The child’s US citizen’s parent has been physically present in the US for a period(s) totaling to 5 years and at least 2 of which were after 14 years of age. If the US citizen parent does not qualify, the US citizen grandparent must met the requirement for the US citizen parent.
• The child is temporarily present in the United States at the time of the interview in a lawful status based on a lawful admission. Note: it is the responsibility of the US citizen parent or the US citizen grandparent or US citizen legal guardian to secure a visa for the child’s lawful admission to the United States. The USCIS cannot assist in obtaining any necessary visa or document.
• For a child of the member of the USAF: The child does not need to have temporary physical presence, lawful admission and maintenance of status requirements to be eligible for naturalization under the INA 322. The entire process will be completed outside the US.  
• For a child of the US citizen who is and was serving in the USAF, the US citizen parent may count the time he or she spend abroad under official military orders as part of the required five years physical presence as long as the child resides with the service member under official military orders at the time of the filing.
• For adopted child, if the child was adopted under the Hague Intercountry Adoption Convention, the person submitting the petition must file the adoption decree and copy of the approval of I-800. If the US citizen parent adopted an orphan, then the person submitting this form must file the adoption decree with approval notice of I-600. For other adoption cases, the child has been adopted before his 16th  birthday, in legal custody of the adopting US citizen parent for at least two years and is residing with the US citizen adopting parent for at least two years.

WHAT IS THE FORM FOR:

This form is used to file for an exemption for the English and or civics requirement because of the physical or developmental disability or mental impairment that lasted or will last for 12 months.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

Applicant for naturalization who wants to be exempted from taking the English and the Civics test because they are physically, mentally and developmentally impaired. Such disability lasted or will last for 12 months.

WHO CANNOT FILE IT:

Applicants who can take the English and Civics test but with reasonable accommodation (use of a sign language interpreter, needs extra testing time and off-site testing among others should not file this form but instead request this accommodation in their N-400. Illiteracy alone is not a valid reason to seek exemption from the English and Civics test.

USCIS FILING FEE: $0.00

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used to determine the returning resident’s status when a lawful permanent resident and a conditional resident overstayed abroad for more than one year or beyond the validity period of the re-entry permit. 

If this application is approve the returning resident will acquire a new immigrant visa and can resume permanent residence in the US.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

A lawful permanent resident or a conditional resident who has overstayed abroad for more than 12 months or beyond the period of their re-entry permit can file this form with the US  embassy or consulate nearest to him or her.

WHAT IS THIS FORM FOR:

This form is used to determine the returning resident’s status when a lawful permanent resident and a conditional resident overstayed abroad for more than one year or beyond the validity period of the re-entry permit. 

If this application is approve the returning resident will acquire a new immigrant visa and can resume permanent residence in the US.

WHO CAN FILE IT:

A lawful permanent resident or a conditional resident who has overstayed abroad for more than 12 months or beyond the period of their re-entry permit can file this form with the US  embassy or consulate nearest to him or her.