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The Chicago National Processing Center has moved to New Address

The Chicago National Processing Center (CNPC) has a new address. Beginning on August 2, 2012, please direct your hard copy filings for the D-1, H-2A and H-2B programs to the CNPC's new addresses provided below. Please note that the CNPC move does not affect the electronic filing of LCAs but any employer with permission to file by hard copy should direct its LCA filing(s) to the new address.

 

Please also remember to direct your payments of H-2A labor certification fees to the new P.O. Box address (also listed below).

DHS Proposes Updating Recordkeeping System On People Who Enter U.S. Through Visa Waiver Program

[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 146 (Monday, July 30, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44642-44647]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18552]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Office of the Secretary

[Docket No. DHS-2012-0045]


Privacy Act of 1974; Department of Homeland Security U.S. Customs
and Border Protection-DHS/CBP-009 Electronic System for Travel

DOS Issues Statement On Confidentiality Of Visa Records

Press Statement

 Office of the Spokesperson
Washington, DC

July 26, 2012

 

Question: Is the issuance of a waiver during the visa process protected under visa confidentiality as part of the visa process?

Answer: Yes, we maintain waiver requests and decisions as part of our visa records, and visa records are confidential under Section 222(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). For the purposes of INA Section 222(f), a “record” includes information or documents pertaining to an individual visa applicant.