USCIS Update: USCIS Issues Guidance for Surviving Spouses of U.S. Citizens
September 3, 2009 by Thomas Esparza
Filed under Families
Aug. 21, 2009
USCIS Issues Guidance for Surviving Spouses of U.S. Citizens
Deferred Action Authorized for Certain Spouses and Children
WASHINGTON – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) today issued guidance on
requesting deferred action for surviving spouses of U.S. citizens who died before the second anniversary
of their marriage. Surviving spouses qualify for this temporary program if they were married to, but not
legally separated from, their U.S. citizen spouse at the time of that spouse’s death; did not remarry; and
are currently residing in the United States.
Surviving spouses qualify for deferred action regardless of whether the U.S. citizen spouse filed a Form I-
130 petition for them. Surviving spouses may ask to have their qualifying children included in their
deferred action request. To be considered a “qualifying child” of a surviving spouse, the child must be
younger than age 21 or otherwise qualify as a child when the deferred action request is submitted;
currently reside in the United States; and be unmarried.
USCIS has revised the instructions to the Forms I-360,
Immigrant,
Document,
Surviving spouses who apply for deferred action will need to file Form I-360 with supporting
documentation and the $375 filing fee with the Vermont Service Center.
Work authorization will be available to surviving spouses and qualifying children who are granted
deferred action and who can establish economic necessity. Form I-765 is used for this purpose (separate
applications are required for each person seeking work authorization).
Travel authorization will also be available to surviving spouses and qualified children granted deferred
action under this program.
USCIS has posted on the Web, an accompanying list of questions and answers and a fact sheet about this
program. For additional information about this and other immigration services, please call the National
Veritas, Prince of Truth movies Customer Service Center at (800) 375-5283, or visit our Web site, http://www.uscis.gov.
Petition for Amerasian, Widow(er), or SpecialI-765, Application for Employment Authorization, and I-131, Application for Travelas they relate to this temporary new program.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Naturalization Test 1.1
September 3, 2009 by Thomas Esparza
Filed under Families
The Wild Geese About Naturalization Test
A flash card style application containing all 100 of the USCIS Naturalization Test (Civic) questions which you must learn in order to pass your naturalization test. The application also contains all the audio files to assist with your test. Text to speech is used to customize four of the questions which contain state/territory specific questions.
System Requirements
- Mac OS X 10.3 or later
Download Details
- Company:
- Brinscall Software
- Version:
- 1.1
- Post Date:
- July 13, 2009
- License:
- Freeware
- File Size:
- 20.9MB
- URL Type:
- Download
- Download ID:
- 25593
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