Mark A Ivener, A Law Corporation

USCIS Will Close Vienna Field Office in December


U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will permanently close its field office in Vienna, Austria, on December 31, 2015. The last day the office will be open to the public and accept applications is November 30, 2015. The USCIS field offices in Frankfurt, Rome, and Athens will assume Vienna’s former jurisdiction, which includes Austria, Albania, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Kosovo, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, and Slovenia. The U.S. Embassy in Vienna will assume responsibility for certain limited services previously provided by USCIS to individuals residing in Austria.

Additional details, including the new jurisdictional breakdown for countries in USCIS Vienna’s former jurisdiction and detailed filing instructions for various services and forms, is at http://www.uscis.gov/news/austria-uscis-vienna-field-office.

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