Completing and Submitting the Citizenship Application

Applicants should take all the necessary care to fill out an error free citizenship application. This is because the USCIS scrutinizes all applications very in a very strict fashion and any slight error may cause them to reject your application. It will be a total waste of your hard- earned dollars and your precious time for you have to pay afresh if you are filing in another application.

The general guidelines for filling in the application does not hold good for all applicants. If you have been married, divorced or widowed at the time of applying, then proof for the respective status should be attached with the application. Also if you have been convicted of any crime or put on probation, it is essential that you furnish the necessary documents that will establish the facts along with the citizenship application. Concealing facts about your past criminal history or travels out of the US, or any other trivial matter will cause a significant delay of your application. In some cases, it may even lead to the rejection of it.

The USCIS has clear instructions regarding the submission of the completed applications. Applications along with the specified filing fee can be sent in snail mail or through Express mail or even courier service (a different address for the last two, though)

• If you are from any of the following regions - Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Ohio, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Territory of Guam, or the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, then you need to submit the application to the USCIS Lockbox facility at Phoenix.
• If you reside in any of these regions  - Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or the U.S. Virgin Islands, then you need to send in your application to the USCIS Dallas Lockbox facility.

In the event of you being military personnel, or having been in service previously you need to send in your application to the Nebraska Service Center, regardless of where you live or commissioned. Similarly, your spouses can also send it to the same address. In case of immediate relatives of deceased military members, the same address holds good for them.

If you wish to receive notification regarding the acceptance of your citizenship application, then you need to fill Form G-1145E and attach it to the first page of the application.