{"id":158982,"date":"2012-02-16T20:24:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/be3674f4-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2012-02-16T20:24:00","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T20:24:00","slug":"be367507-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/be367507-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS clarifies biometrics for those in CNMI with pending applications"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands and have an application pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, please ignore any notice from USCIS that says you have a biometrics appointment in Honolulu.<\/p>\n<p>If you received such a notice from USCIS, it is the result of a computer error.<\/p>\n<p>You do not go to Hawaii for biometrics. Your biometrics appointment will be on Saipan, Rota or Tinian, depending upon your work location.<\/p>\n<p>Scheduled biometrics for Saipan residents take place at our office in TSL Plaza. USCIS will be coming to Rota and Tinian to capture biometrics there. <\/p>\n<p>If you receive a notice for a biometrics appointment in Honolulu, send USCIS an email at CNMI.CSC@uscis.dhs.gov.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about immigration in the CNMI you may:<\/p>\n<p>* Visit www.uscis.gov\/cnmi or www.uscis.gov\/cw.<br \/>\n* Call the National Customer Service Center at 1-800-375-5283. This toll-free number has automated information and live assistance 24 hours a day, seven days a week. During regular business hours, customers who need more information or assistance can be transferred to a customer-service representative. In the CNMI, live assistance is available Tuesday through Saturday from 6am to 11am local time.<br \/>\n* Email us at CNMI.CSC@uscis.dhs.gov.<br \/>\n* Find the status of your case by using the \u201cMy Case Status\u201d tool on www.uscis.gov.<br \/>\n* Make an appointment at www.uscis.gov to visit the USCIS Application Support Center at TSL Plaza in Saipan. Walk-ins will be seen after people with appointments. [B][I](USCIS)[\/I][\/B]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are in the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands and have an application pending with U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, please ignore any notice from USCIS that says you have a biometrics appointment in Honolulu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}