Dallas AOS submission confusion

[GeordieWife 1]

Greetings everyone. I'm getting close to being ready to send of my AOS, EAD, and AP paperwork on behalf of my husband (who entered here on a K1 visa). My question is:

We reside in the Dallas area, and in the guides and where Ewok pinned in the AOS forum, it states special arrangements must be made to submit AOS forms and not to mail it to the Chicago lockbox. WELL....the linky thing Ewok made doesn't show up when clicked and the USCIS website says nothing about special arrangements for Dallas applicants. Do I go ahead and mail it to Chicago? The I-485 instructions for a K1 state to mail it to Chicago.

So...I'm confused and do not want to delay this by sending it to the wrong place or doing something wrong. What do I do? Thank you in advance for all your great help and advice!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

This is going to be a vague answer at best. I saw that special arrangements if you live in Texas thing and clicked on it once, being from Texas. It said Dallas office and mine is Houston so I kinda blew that off since we're not even done with K1 yet. However I also sorta remember looking at that somewhere on one of the official government websites and getting the idea that it was a pilot program they were trying out and reading that it had ended and they would be evaluating whatever they had gathered from their trial. So I think that may be why the broken links and no information on it. Makes sense to me anyway. I'm sure somebody else will come along who knows more about it than just casually reading it.

[truffles 2]

My advice would be to visit the USCIS website....and look at the immigration forms there. There you can actually download the instructions for filling out the AOS form plus there is additonal information as to who send what petitions where - personally i actually printed out the guide to filling it and kept it with my file for reference

[GeordieWife 1]

Thanks Nich-Nick....gives a little insight to my perception of this, I'm just a freak for doing things to the letter. Perhaps it is oldish/expired information?

Truffles, thank you, and yes, that's exactly what I did as well and it says to mail it to the chicago location.

I think that may be what I do unless one of the wise regulars pipes in here with their higher wisdom!

[Krikit 1,166]

If I remember correctly, that was in reference to the old DORA program. I'm pretty sure that's no longer in existence now, and that you send it to the Chicago lockbox. Hopefully, someone who's more current with this can chime in.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

If I remember correctly, that was in reference to the old DORA program.

Yep, that's the page I saw.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

I looked around a lttle and it's supposed to allow you to finish AOS in 90 days Dallas Office Rapid Adjudication. It seemed to be voluntary, then mandatory, then voluntary again because it was taking so long to get the infopass. You might call the USCIS and ask if the DORA program is still in use or try to find a number for that office. I don't really see anywhere that it ended, just that it ended being mandatory if you live in that office jurisdiction. A long explanation from Sept '06 telling about the program-- http://www.uscis.gov/propub/ProPubVAP.jsp?...b872cdab5bea974