Published by the American Immigration Lawyers Association


AILA Publications brings you the most complete publicly available version of the USCIS Adjudicator's Field Manual. Intended to be used with the Immigration & Nationality Act and Title 8 of the Code of Federal Regulations, this Manual provides access to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' adjudications procedures and policy materials.

The 2010 edition of the Adjudicator's Field Manual incorporates significant changes implemented by USCIS since 2007. These changes include all the new guidance issued to adjudicators over the last three years, deletions of obsolete guidance, and other revisions on over 150 different sections of the manual. This new edition of the book also includes the addition of entire chapters USCIS has not previously made available to the public.

New to this edition!

• Chapter 40.1, providing guidance on the health-related grounds of inadmissibilty under INA §212(a)(1)
• Chapter 40.6, providing guidance on the interpretation of the grounds of inadmissibility under INA §212(a)(6)
• Chapter 40.9, consolidating and clarifying guidance regarding the accrual of unlawful presence and the resulting inadmissibility

Revised!

• Chapters 31.4 and 31.5, revised to provide further guidance for the processing of H-2A and H-2B temporary workers
• Chapters 25.1(g)(6) and 25.1(h)(4), revised to provide detailed guidance on the adjudication of I-751 petitions filed by conditional permanent residents who are the subject of a final order of removal, are in removal proceedings, have filed in an untimely fashion, or have filed multiple petitions
• Portions of various chapters providing guidance for applications involving HIV, which no longer makes an individual inadmissible under INA §212(a)(1)(A)(i)
• Chapters 22.4 and 25.2, revised to provide detailed guidance to the CSC involving the adjudication of EB-5 and related petitions
• Chapter 31.3, providing guidance, in the context of H-1B petitions, regarding the requirement that petitioner's establish that an employer-employee relationship exists