USCIS Updates Fee Payment System

USCIS Updates Fee Payment…

On February 25, 2019, USCIS announced that they expanded the fee payment system used in some field offices to 16 additional offices. These offices are in:

  • Albuquerque, New Mexico
  • Buffalo, New York
  • Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Cleveland, Ohio
  • Columbus, Ohio
  • El Paso, Texas
  • Harlingen, Texas
  • Hartford, Connecticut
  • Indianapolis, Indiana
  • Jacksonville, Florida
  • Louisville, Kentucky
  • Mt. Laurel, New Jersey
  • Newark, New Jersey
  • Raleigh, North Carolina
  • Sacramento, California
  • San Antonio, Texas

These offices will no longer accept money orders or cashier's checks. They will only accept payments using personal checks, attorney checks, business checks, debit cards, credit cards, or re-loadable prepaid debit or credit cards. The other field offices in which the payment methods were updated have experienced increased security and traceability and decreased processing errors. The update to the fee payment system also reduced processing time and overall wait time drastically.

The updates to the fee payment system are a part of USCIS's effort to modernize and streamline their processes so that offices are more efficient. USCIS intends to update the payment system in all field offices by the end of fiscal year 2019.

For More Information:

Read more about the field office fee payment system at the here.

This blog post does not serve as legal advice and does not establish any client-attorney privilege. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact our legal team directly.

Find us on LinkedIn.

This information comes from a news release from the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA Doc. No. 19022632).