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USCIS creates new form to enhance screening and vetting for immigration applications

  1. Original Date Announced

    February 28, 2025

    USCIS has posted an advance notice that it will issue a new form to implement enhanced screening and vetting standards and procedures pursuant to section 2 of the EO “Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats." The form will collect 24 data elements, including information about an applicant's family members (parents, spouse, siblings, and children), including the names, telephone numbers. dates of birth and residence(s) of family members. The new form will be used with 9 current USCIS applications, including naturalization, asylum, registration for permanent residence and adjustment of status, travel documents, refugee/asylee relative petitions.

    Starting March 3, 2025, the public will have 60 days to comment on the proposed changes.

    [ID #1578]

    2025.02.28 USCIS Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Certain Information on Immigration Forms
  2. Effective Date

    March 3, 2025

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