Offices & Departments

 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)

On March 1, 2003, services formerly provided by the Immigration and naturalization Service (INS) transitioned into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) under U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS). This new Bureau is headed by the Director of USCIS, Michael Shertoff. Created as a separate bureau by the Homeland Security Act of 2002, USCIS allows the DHS to improve the administration of benefits and immigration services for applicants by exclusively focusing on immigration and citizenship services.  For Port-au-Prince USCIS Office these functions include:

• adjudication of immigrant visa petitions (I-130)
• adjudication of naturalization petitions;
• adjudication of asylum  (I-730) and refugee  (I-131) applications;
• adjudications performed at the service centers, such as orphan petitions (I-600)
• all other adjudications performed by the INS, such as Immigrant and Non-immigrant visa waiver requests (I-601).
• verification of eligibility, production and issuance of immigration documents for passengers or persons who have lost their alien registration cards (also known as “green card”) or who have ADIT stamps and Immigrant visas in their passports.
  

For additional information on USCIS, we invite you to visit our website: www.uscis.gov.