USCIS Asylum Offices

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) has eight (8) asylum offices within the United States. The mission of the U.S. Asylum Program is to implement asylum laws in a way that is fair, timely, and consistent with international humanitarian principles and the domestic tradition of providing refuge for the oppressed. After you have filed an asylum application with the appropriate service center, the USCIS will notify you of the asylum fffice serving your area.

A Form I-589 is also filed at service centers. Do not mail an initial asylum application to an asylum office. However, as the list demonstrates, asylum applications are not always filed at the same service center that accepts other applications from residents of that area. Therefore, prospective asylum applicants should check the list to determine with which service center they should file their asylum application. After your asylum application has been received, you will be notified where to go for your asylum interview.

• Arlington
  1525 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 300, Arlington, VA 22209
  
  Jurisdiction: Alabama, District of Columbia, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh), South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia
  
  
• Chicago
  181 W. Madison Street, Suite 3000, Chicago, IL 60602
  
  Jurisdiction: Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Wisconsin
  
  
• Houston
  16630 Imperial Valley Drive, Suite 200, Houston, TX 77060
  
  Jurisdiction: Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Wyoming
  
  
• Miami
  1501 Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 300, Miami, FL 33132
  
  Jurisdiction: Florida, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands
  
  
• Newark
  1200 Wall Street West, Fourth Floor, Lyndhurst, NJ 07071
  
  Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York (Albany, Buffalo, Manhanttan, Bronx), Pennsylvania (excluding Pittsburgh), Rhode Island, Vermont
  
  
• New York City
  1065 Stewart Avenue, Suite 200, Bethpage, NY 11714
  
  Jurisdiction: State of New York excluding the jurisdiction of the Albany sub office, the Buffalo district office, and the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx
  
  
• Los Angeles
  14101 Myford Road, Tustin, CA 92780-7020
  
  Jurisdiction: Arizona, Southern California, Guam, Hawaii, Nevada (Las Vegas)
  
  
• San Francisco
  Jurisdiction: Alaska, Northern California, Nevada (Reno), Oregon, Washington
  
  75 Hawthorne Street, 7th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94105
  
  

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