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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is updating policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify customer service options available to certain noncitizens whose applications or processes are subject to confidentiality protections. Such noncitizens include applicants of the Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal ( Form I-589 ); applicants of the Application for Suspension of Deportation or Special Rule Cancellation of Removal (Pursuant to Section 203 of Public Law 105-100 (NACARA)) ( Form I-881 ); and noncitizens in the credible fear, reasonable fear, and Safe Third Country Agreement screening processes.
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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is issuing policy guidance in the USCIS Policy Manual to clarify the applicability of 8 U.S.C. 1367(a)(1) and (a)(2) provisions. This revision also resolves minor technical errors in previously published safe address procedures for aliens protected under 8 U.S.C. 1367.
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