# Filing Addresses for Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status

The filing location for your Form I-539, Application to Extend/Change Nonimmigrant Status, depends on your filing classification and where you live.

The accordions below explains where to file your Form I-539.

**Applications and petitions that are not mailed to the appropriate filing location may experience processing delays.**

If you are filing Form I-539 with a principal’s Form I-129, Petition for a Nonimmigrant Worker, (excluding CNMI residents), file at the USCIS service center with jurisdiction over their Form I-129 as found on our Direct Filing Addresses for Form I-129 page.

If you are a H-4 spouse of an H-1B nonimmigrant filing Form I-539 separately from the H-1B principal nonimmigrant or filing concurrently with Form I-765 for category (c)(26).

If you are a resident of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), mail your form to the Texas Service Center.

**U.S. Postal Service (USPS):**

USCIS Texas Service CenterAttn: I-539 CNMI6046 N Belt Line Rd. STE 119Irving, TX 75038-0018

**FedEx, UPS, and DHL deliveries:**

USCIS Texas Service CenterAttn: I-539 CNMI6046 N Belt Line Rd. STE 119Irving, TX 75038-0001

If you are a P-4 dependent of a major league athlete or support personnel, mail your form to the Texas Service Center.

**USPS, FedEx, UPS, and DHL deliveries:**

USCIS Texas Service CenterAttn: I-539 P46046 N Belt Line Rd. STE 119Irving, TX 75038-0018

If you are a T nonimmigrant filing for an extensions of stay, mail your form to the Vermont Service Center.

**USPS, FedEx, UPS, and DHL deliveries:**

USCIS Vermont Service CenterAttn: Humanitarian Division38 River Rd.Essex Junction, VT  05479-0001

You must include a copy of your Form I-797C, Notice of Action, approving your U nonimmigrant status; a copy of your Form I-94, Arrival/Departure Record; and a copy of all pages of your passport with a U nonimmigrant visa.

If you are a V nonimmigrant, mail your form to the Chicago Lockbox.

**USCIS Chicago Lockbox**

**U.S. Postal Service (USPS):**

USCISAttn: V & LP.O. Box 7219Chicago, IL 60680-7219

**FedEx, UPS, and DHL deliveries:**

USCISAttn: V & L (Box 7219)131 South Dearborn, 3rd FloorChicago, IL 60603-5517

If you are filing for a change of status to A, G or NATO (for embassy, international organization, or NATO employment), mail your Form I-539 and any other required forms through your embassy, international organization, or NATO to:

U.S. Department of StateOffice of Protocol3507 International Place NWSuite 242Washington, D.C. 20008

If you are filing for a change of status to G classification (for a foreign government’s mission to the U.N. or U.N. Secretariat employment), mail your Form I-539 and any other required forms through the foreign government’s mission or the U.N. Secretariat to:

U.S. Mission to the United Nations799 United Nations PlazaNew York, NY 10017

If you are a dependent spouse/child filing for a change of status to a NATO classification based on a principal NATO nonimmigrant, mail your form to:

NATO/HQ SACT Legal Affairs7857 Blandy Rd.Suite 100Norfolk, VA 23551

You or the principal NATO nonimmigrant through whom you derive your status are posted at a national component or as an exchange officer. Contact your embassy for proper filing through official diplomatic channels.

If you are filing for an extensions of stay for A-3, G-5, or NATO-7 nonimmigrant, contact your embassy, international organization, or NATO command for proper filing through official diplomatic channels.

Use the address below for all other Form I-539 filings, including:
                        - Change of status from A, G, or NATO classifications to another nonimmigrant classification (once the applicant has received an endorsed Form I-566); or
                        - A Form I-539 filed separately from a principal’s Form I-129, with the exception of:                           - A Form I-539 filed by an H-4 spouse of an H-1B nonimmigrant or filed concurrently with Form I-765 for category (c)(26); or
                          - A Form I-539 filed by P-4 dependents of major league athletes or support personnel.

Please see the guidance above for instructions for H-4 spouses or P-4 dependents filing a Form I-539 separately. 

**E-Notification**: If you want to receive an email and/or text message that we  have accepted your Form I-539 at a USCIS lockbox, complete  Form G-1145, E-Notification of Application/Petition Acceptance, and clip it to the first page of your application.

10/27/2023

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