New USCIS Humanitarian, Adjustment, Removing Conditions and Travel Documents (“HART”) Service Center

March 30, 2023

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) has opened its sixth service center, the Humanitarian, Adjustment, Removing Conditions, and Travel Documents (“HART”) Service Center.  The HART Service Center will be the first to focus on humanitarian and other workload cases and will eventually be the first fully virtual service center.  With this new service center, USCIS aims to decrease the backlog of humanitarian and related cases.

 

Initially, the HART Service Center will focus on the following case types:

• Form I-601A, Application for Provisional Unlawful Presence Waiver;
• Bona Fide Determination (BFD) for Form I-918, Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status;
• Form I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition; and
• VAWA-based Form I-360, Petition for Amerasian, Widow(er), or Special Immigrant.

 

USCIS is still reassigning and hiring personnel to staff this new service center.  Until further notice, the status quo largely remains the same for these case types with respect to inquiries, address changes for VAWA-based Form I-360 and Form I-918 BFD, and instructions on where to file.

 

Please contact us at Landau, Hess, Simon, Choi & Doebley if you have any questions about the potential impact of the new HART Service Center on your case.  To schedule a consultation with one of our attorneys, please proceed to our Consultation Request Form.

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