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 - Requests to Expedite Applications or Petitions
  • Chapter 6 - Disability Accommodation Requests
  • Chapter 7 - Privacy and Confidentiality
  • Chapter 8 - Conduct in USCIS Facilities
  • Chapter 9 - Feedback, Complaints, and Reporting Misconduct

• Part B - Submission of Benefit Requests
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Signatures
  • Chapter 3 - Fees
  • Chapter 4 - Fee Waivers
  • Chapter 5 - Interpreters and Preparers
  • Chapter 6 - Submitting Requests

• Part C - Biometrics Collection and Security Checks
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Biometrics Collection
  • Chapter 3 - Security Checks [Reserved]

• Part D - Attorneys and Representatives

• 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 [Reserved]
  • Chapter 7 - Interviews [Reserved]
  • Chapter 8 - Discretionary Analysis
  • Chapter 9 - Rendering a Decision [Reserved]

• Part F - Motions and Appeals

• 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 and Change of Status

• Part B - Diplomatic and International Organization Personnel (A, G)

• Part C - Visitors for Business or Tourism (B)

• Part D - Exchange Visitors (J)

• Part E - Cultural Visitors (Q)
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
  • Chapter 3 - Filing and Documentation
  • Chapter 4 - Adjudication
  • Chapter 5 - Admissions, Extensions of Stay, and Changes of Status

• Part F - Students (F, M)

• Part G - Treaty Traders and Treaty Investors (E-1, E-2)

• Part H - Specialty Occupation Workers (H-1B, E-3)

• Part I - Temporary Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Workers (H-2)

• 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 K - Media Representatives (I)
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility
  • Chapter 3 - Distinction between News and Entertainment
  • Chapter 4 - Family Members
  • Chapter 5 - Adjudication

• Part L - Intracompany Transferees (L)

• Part M - Aliens 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 N - Athletes and Entertainers (P)
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
  • Chapter 3 - Petitioners
  • Chapter 4 - Documentation and Evidence
  • Chapter 5 - Adjudication
  • Chapter 6 - Post-Adjudication Actions

• Part O - Religious Workers (R)
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - General Requirements
  • Chapter 3 - Petitioner Requirements
  • Chapter 4 - Beneficiary Requirements
  • Chapter 5 - Adjudication
  • Chapter 6 - Admissions, Extensions of Stay, and Changes of Status
  • Chapter 7 - Period of Stay

• Part P - NAFTA Professionals (TN)

• Part Q - Nonimmigrants Intending to Adjust Status (K, V)

• Part A - Protection and Parole Policies and Procedures

• Part B - Victims of Trafficking

• Part C - Victims of Crimes

• Part D - Violence Against Women Act

• Part E - Employment Authorization for Abused Spouses of Certain Nonimmigrants

• Part F - Parolees

• Part G - Deferred Action

• Part H - Humanitarian Emergencies

• Part I - Temporary Protected Status

• Part A - Immigrant Policies and Procedures

• Part B - Family-Based Immigrants
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Principles Common to Family-Based Petitions [Reserved]
  • Chapter 3 - Filing

• Part C - Adam Walsh Act

• Part D - Surviving Relatives

• Part E - Employment-Based Immigration
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background [Reserved]
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements [Reserved]
  • Chapter 3 - Successor-in-Interest in Permanent Labor Certification Cases [Reserved]
  • Chapter 4 - Ability to Pay [Reserved]
  • Chapter 5 - Business Structure [Reserved]
  • Chapter 6 - Permanent Labor Certification [Reserved]
  • Chapter 7 - Schedule A Designation Petitions
  • Chapter 8 - Documentation and Evidence [Reserved]
  • Chapter 9 - Evaluation of Education Credentials [Reserved]
  • Chapter 10 - Decision and Post-Adjudication [Reserved]

• Part F - Employment-Based Classifications

• Part G - Investors
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
  • Chapter 3 - Regional Center Designation, Reporting, Amendments, and Termination
  • Chapter 4 - Immigrant Petition by Alien Investor (Form I-526)
  • Chapter 5 - Removal of Conditions
  • Chapter 6 - Deference

• 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

• Part J - Special Immigrant Juveniles
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
  • Chapter 3 - Documentation and Evidence
  • Chapter 4 - Adjudication
  • Chapter 5 - Appeals, Motions to Reopen, and Motions to Reconsider
  • Chapter 6 - Data

• Part K - CNMI Resident Status

• 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 C - 245(i) Adjustment
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Grandfathering Requirements
  • Chapter 3 - Eligibility and Filing Requirements
  • Chapter 4 - Documentation and Evidence
  • Chapter 5 - Adjudication and Decision

• Part D - Family-Based 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 (EB-4) 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 Afghanistan and Iraq Nationals

• Part G - Diversity Visa Adjustment

• Part H - Reserved

• Part I - Adjustment Based on Violence Against Women Act

• Part J - Trafficking Victim-Based Adjustment

• Part K - Crime Victim-Based Adjustment

• Part L - Refugee Adjustment
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
  • Chapter 3 - Admissibility and Waiver Requirements
  • Chapter 4 - Documentation and Evidence
  • Chapter 5 - Adjudication Procedures
  • Chapter 6 - Termination of Status and Notice to Appear Considerations

• Part M - Asylee Adjustment
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements
  • Chapter 3 - Admissibility and Waiver Requirements
  • Chapter 4 - Documentation and Evidence
  • Chapter 5 - Adjudication Procedures
  • Chapter 6 - Termination of Status and Notice to Appear Considerations

• Part N - Legalization

• 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 - Aliens 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

• Part Q - Rescission of Lawful Permanent Residence
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility
  • Chapter 3 - Rescission Process
  • Chapter 4 - Effective Date of Rescission
  • Chapter 5 - Adjudication Procedures

• 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 C - Civil Surgeon Designation and Revocation
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Application for Civil Surgeon Designation
  • Chapter 3 - Blanket Civil Surgeon Designation
  • Chapter 4 - Termination and Revocation
  • Chapter 5 - Civil Surgeon List

• 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 - Public Charge Inadmissibility Ground
  • Chapter 3 - Applicability
  • Chapter 4 - Prospective Determination Based on Totality of the Circumstances
  • Chapter 5 - Factors
  • Chapter 6 - Age
  • Chapter 7 - Health
  • Chapter 8 - Family Status
  • Chapter 9 - Assets, Resources, and Financial Status
  • Chapter 10 - Public Benefits
  • Chapter 11 - Education and Skills
  • Chapter 12 - Prospective Immigration Status and Expected Period of Admission
  • Chapter 13 - Additional Support through Sponsorship
  • Chapter 14 - Heavily Weighted Factors
  • Chapter 15 - Totality of the Circumstances Scenarios
  • Chapter 16 - Waivers of Inadmissibility Based on Public Charge Ground
  • Chapter 17 - Adjudicating Public Charge Inadmissibility
  • Chapter 18 - Public Charge Bonds
  • Chapter 19 - Public Charge Bonds: Posting and Accepting Bonds
  • Chapter 20 - Public Charge Bonds: Maintaining, Substituting, and Canceling Bonds

• Part H - Labor Certification and Select Immigrant Qualifications

• Part I - Illegal Entrants and Other Immigration Violators

• Part J - Fraud and Willful Misrepresentation
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Overview of Fraud and Willful Misrepresentation
  • Chapter 3 - Adjudicating Inadmissibility

• Part K - False Claim to U.S. Citizenship
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Determining False Claim to U.S. Citizenship
  • Chapter 3 - Adjudication
  • Chapter 4 - Exceptions and Waivers

• Part L - Documentation Requirements

• Part M - Citizenship Ineligibility

• Part N - Aliens Previously Removed

• Part O - Aliens Unlawfully Present

• Part P - Alien Present After Previous Immigration Violation

• Part Q - Practicing Polygamists, International Child Abductors, Unlawful Voters, and Tax Evaders

• Part A - Waiver Policies and Procedures
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Forms of Relief
  • Chapter 3 - Review of Inadmissibility Grounds
  • Chapter 4 - Waiver Eligibility and Evidence
  • Chapter 5 - Discretion
  • Chapter 6 - Validity of an Approved Waiver
  • Chapter 7 - Denials, Appeals, and Motions

• Part B - Extreme Hardship
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Extreme Hardship Policy
  • Chapter 3 - Adjudicating Extreme Hardship Claims
  • Chapter 4 - Qualifying Relative
  • Chapter 5 - Extreme Hardship Considerations and Factors
  • Chapter 6 - Extreme Hardship Determinations
  • Chapter 7 - Discretion

• Part C - Family Unity, Humanitarian Purposes, or Public or National Interest

• Part D - Health-Related Grounds of Inadmissibility
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Waiver of Communicable Disease of Public Health Significance
  • Chapter 3 - Waiver of Immigrant Vaccination Requirement
  • Chapter 4 - Waiver of Physical or Mental Disorder Accompanied by Harmful Behavior
  • Chapter 5 - Waiver of Drug Abuse and Addiction

• Part E - Criminal and Related Grounds of Inadmissibility

• Part F - Fraud and Willful Misrepresentation
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Adjudication of Fraud and Willful Misrepresentation Waivers
  • Chapter 3 - Effect of Granting a Waiver

• Part G - Unlawful Presence

• Part H - Provisional Unlawful Presence

• Part I - Immigrant Membership in Totalitarian Party

• Part J - Alien Smuggling

• Part K - Aliens Subject to Civil Penalty

• Part L - Refugees and Asylees

• Part M - Temporary Protected Status Applicants

• Part N - Special Immigrant Juvenile Adjustment Applicants

• Part O - Victims of Trafficking

• Part P - Crime Victims

• Part Q - Violence Against Women Act Applicants

• Part R - Other Waivers and Provisions Overcoming Inadmissibility

• Part S - Consent to Reapply

• Part A - Employment Authorization Policies and Procedures
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Eligibility Requirements [Reserved]
  • Chapter 3 - Documentation and Evidence [Reserved]
  • Chapter 4 - Adjudication [Reserved]
  • Chapter 5 - Discretion
  • Chapter 6 - Card Production and Card Correction [Reserved]
  • Chapter 7 - Post-Decision Actions [Reserved]

• Part B - Specific Categories
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Parolees
  • Chapter 3 - Reserved

• Part A - Secure Identity Documents Policies and Procedures
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - USCIS-Issued Secure Identity Documents
  • Chapter 3 - Reissuance of Secure Identity Documents

• Part B - Permanent Resident Cards
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Replacement of Permanent Resident Card
  • Chapter 3 - Expired Permanent Resident Cards
  • Chapter 4 - Commuter Cards

• Part C - Reentry Permits

• Part D - Refugee Travel Documents

• Part E - Advance Parole Documents

• Part F - Arrival-Departure Records

• Part A - Citizenship and Naturalization Policies and Procedures
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Becoming a U.S. Citizen
  • Chapter 3 - USCIS Authority to Naturalize

• Part B - Naturalization Examination
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Background and Security Checks
  • Chapter 3 - Naturalization Interview
  • Chapter 4 - Results of the Naturalization Examination
  • Chapter 5 - Motion to Reopen
  • Chapter 6 - USCIS Hearing and Judicial Review

• Part C - Accommodations
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Accommodation Policies and Procedures
  • Chapter 3 - Types of Accommodations

• 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 E - English and Civics Testing and Exceptions
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - English and Civics Testing
  • Chapter 3 - Medical Disability Exception (Form N-648)

• Part F - Good Moral Character
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Adjudicative Factors
  • Chapter 3 - Evidence and the Record
  • Chapter 4 - Permanent Bars to Good Moral Character
  • Chapter 5 - Conditional Bars for Acts in Statutory Period

• Part G - Spouses of U.S. Citizens
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Marriage and Marital Union for Naturalization
  • Chapter 3 - Spouses of U.S. Citizens Residing in the United States
  • Chapter 4 - Spouses of U.S. Citizens Employed Abroad
  • Chapter 5 - Conditional Permanent Resident Spouses and Naturalization

• 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 of the United States (INA 322)
  • Chapter 6 - Special Provisions for the Naturalization of Children

• 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

• Part J - Oath of Allegiance
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - The Oath of Allegiance
  • Chapter 3 - Oath of Allegiance Modifications and Waivers
  • Chapter 4 - General Considerations for All Oath Ceremonies
  • Chapter 5 - Administrative Naturalization Ceremonies
  • Chapter 6 - Judicial and Expedited Oath Ceremonies

• Part K - Certificates of Citizenship and Naturalization
  • Chapter 1 - Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Certificate of Citizenship
  • Chapter 3 - Certificate of Naturalization
  • Chapter 4 - Replacement of Certificate of Citizenship or Naturalization
  • Chapter 5 - Cancellation of Certificate of Citizenship or Naturalization

• Part L - Revocation of Naturalization
  • Chapter 1- Purpose and Background
  • Chapter 2 - Grounds for Revocation of Naturalization
  • Chapter 3 - Effects of Revocation of Naturalization