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Fee Payment Changes at Two USCIS Los Angeles Field Offices

On Nov. 5, 2018, applicants, petitioners, or other requesters who are having to pay a filing charge at the Los Angeles Area Workplace and Los Angeles County Discipline Office will no longer be able to pay by income orders or cashier's checks. They can nonetheless spend by check, debit card, credit score card, or reloadable pre-paid credit or debit cards, which USCIS personnel will procedure by means of a new electronic process. USCIS is launching a pilot at these two discipline offices to check electronic payment processing, which will boost transaction security and decrease processing mistakes that could result in USCIS to reject applications and petitions. Past limiting the variety of payment USCIS will accept through this new program, applicants will not knowledge a modify in how they shell out their fees.

This internal transition is portion of USCIS' ongoing efforts to modernize its enterprise practices, allowing USCIS field workplace staff to method applicants' payments in a faster, a lot more secure on the net process. This will lower processing mistakes on applications that would previously have led to rejection for non-payment. It will also enhance security and traceability of payments for applicants.

USCIS will inform any individual who has produced an appointment at these two area offices that we will not accept cash orders or cashier's checks for in-particular person fee payments, but we will continue to accept personal, attorney, and enterprise checks.

USCIS will update rejection notices to alert candidates who have mailed in their costs to the Los Angeles Field Office or Los Angeles County Discipline Workplace to clarify that we no longer accept these payment approaches.


USCIS will analyze how the electronic payment procedure operates in these two offices prior to choosing whether to put into action the adjustments much more broadly.

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