[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 126 (Friday, July 1, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-16036]
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[Federal Register: July 1, 1994]
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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Immigration and Naturalization Service
[INS No. 1660N-94]
Pilot Direct Mail Program for the Baltimore District Office
AGENCY: Immigration and Naturalization Service, Justice.
ACTION: Notice of implementation of a Direct Mail Pilot Program for the
Baltimore District Office.
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SUMMARY: The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS or Service) is
implementing a pilot Direct Mail Program (the Program) in the Baltimore
District Office. Under the pilot program, certain designated
applications and petitions will be directly mailed to the Eastern
Service Center for processing. This pilot Program is set up as a way of
testing the Direct Mail process to ensure that it achieves the intended
results of improving public service and reducing burdensome procedures
at local field offices.
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 1, 1994.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Pearl Chang, Senior Examiner, Immigration and Naturalization Service,
Adjudications Division, 425 I Street, NW., Room 3214, Washington, DC
20536. Telephone: (202) 514-3240.
ADDRESSES: Implementation of this Pilot Program is a critical step
towards the implementation of Phase III of the Direct Mail Program,
which is aimed at improving the Service's ability to service its
customers in an expedient manner. The Service welcomes comments about
this Pilot Program and will make appropriate changes before adopting it
nationwide.
Please submit any written comments you may have concerning the
pilot program, in triplicate, to the Records Systems Division,
Director, Policy Directives and Instructions Branch, Immigration and
Naturalization Service, 425 I Street, NW., Room 5307. Washington, DC
20536. To ensure proper handling, please reference INS No. 1660N-94 on
your correspondence.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Immigration and Naturalization Service is expanding its Direct
Mail Program to allow more applications and petitions to be filed
directly with an INS Service Center. The Service is soliciting comments
about the implementation of Direct Mail Phase III through the
publication of an interim rule, which is published elsewhere in this
issue of Federal Register. Concurrent with the publication of that
interim rule, the Service is publishing this notice to announce the
implementation of the Direct Mail Pilot Program in the Baltimore
District July 1, 1994, and to solicit public comments.
This notice is to pilot this conversion on a limited scale in the
Baltimore District Office. Since this is a pilot program, not all the
procedural and filing changes discussed in the interim rule will be
required at this time. In addition, due to the current resource
limitations, the Service is unable to convert all Baltimore filings to
Direct Mail.
Conversion to Direct Mail in the Baltimore District
Filing With the Eastern Service Center
As of July 1, 1994, all applications and petitions except those
listed below that would normally be filed with the Baltimore District
Office will instead be mailed to the following address: USINS Eastern
Service Center, 75 Lower Welden Street, St. Albans, VT 05479-0001.
Filing With the Baltimore District Office
The following applications and petitions will continue to be filed
with the Baltimore District Office.
a. Form I-90, Application to Replace an Alien Registration Card,
which applicants will continue to file in person at the Baltimore
office for pre-screening. Thereafter, the local office will forward the
applications on a nightly basis to the Eastern Service Center for
receipting and processing.
b. Form I-600, Petition to Classify Orphan as an Immediate
Relative.
c. Form I-600A, Application for Advance Processing of an Orphan
Petition.
d. Form I-765, Application for an Employment Authorization Document
(EAD), where the basis of eligibility is either:
1. That the person is in proceedings before an immigration judge;
or
2. That the person is an applicant for adjustment of status under
section 245 of the Act and that the application was filed, or is
already pending, at the Baltimore District Office.
These EAD applications will be pre-screened at the Baltimore
District Office to verify the pending proceeding upon which eligibility
is based and to verify identity, and then forwarded on a nightly basis
to the Eastern Service Center for receipting and processing. All other
EAD applications previously filed at the Baltimore Office should be
mailed to the Eastern Service Center. In addition to the fee and the
documentation currently required, each EAD application mailed to the
Eastern Service Center must include:
1. two (2) ADIT color photographs meeting the specifications in the
instruction to the application, and
2. a completed signature card (distributed with applications and
available at the Baltimore District Office).
e. Applications for a waiver of grounds of excludability discovered
during an interview conducted in the Baltimore District Office in
connection with another pending application or filed at time of
application for admission.
f. Form N-400, Application for Naturalization. (The Service plans
to convert this application to Direct Mail as resources become
available at the Eastern Service Center.)
Transition
During the first thirty days following the publication of this
notice, the Baltimore District Office will forward to the Eastern
Service Center applications which are designed for Direct Mail and are
inadvertently filed with the Baltimore District Office. When the
applications forwarded from the Baltimore District Office arrive at the
Eastern Service Center, they will be receipted and filed there.
Dated June 24, 1994.
Doris Meissner,
Commissioner, Immigration and Naturalization Service.
[FR Doc. 94-16036 Filed 6-30-94; 8:45 am]
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