#               G-1566, Request for Certificate of Non-Existence

**ALERT:** On Jan. 31, 2024, we published a final rule in the Federal Register that adjusts the fees required for most immigration applications and petitions. The new fees will be effective April 1, 2024.

Applications and petitions postmarked on or after April 1, 2024, must include the new fees or we will not accept them.

What to Know About Sending Us Your Form

The new filing fee is effective for filings postmarked April 1, 2024, and later. If you are filing an acceptable prior form edition on or after April 1, 2024, you must include the new filing fee.

Use Form G-1566 to determine if specific immigration records exist within our database. If we determine the records you inquired about do not exist, we will issue a Certificate of Non-Existence.

If we find the immigration record you inquired about, we will respond with additional information and will not issue a Certificate of Non-Existence.

## Forms and Document Downloads

Form G-1566  (PDF, 347.19 KB)

Instructions for Form G-1566  (PDF, 204.69 KB)

## Form Details

04/01/24. We will also accept the 07/19/22 edition. You can find the edition date at the bottom of the page on the form and instructions. The new filing fee is effective for filings postmarked April 1, 2024, and later. If you are filing an acceptable prior form edition, you must include the new filing fee.  

Dates are listed in mm/dd/yy format.

If you complete and print this form to mail it, make sure that the form edition date and page numbers are visible at the bottom of all pages and that all pages are from the same form edition. If any of the form’s pages are missing or are from a different form edition, we may reject your form.

If you need help downloading and printing forms, read our instructions. 

**USCIS Elgin Lockbox**

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

USCIS Attn: G-1566 Manual Process P.O. Box 4074 Carol Stream, IL 60197-4074

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

USCIS  Attn: G-1566 Manual Process 2500 Westfield Drive  Elgin, IL 60124-7836 

You can find the filing fee for Form G-1566 by visiting our Fee Schedule page.  

The fee is effective for filings postmarked April 1, 2024, and later.  

You can pay the fee with a money order, personal check, cashier’s check, or pay by credit card or debit card using Form G-1450, Authorization for Credit Card Transactions. If you pay by check, you must make your check payable to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.  

**When you send a payment, you agree to pay for a government service. Filing fees are final and non-refundable, regardless of any action we take on your application, petition, or request, or if you withdraw your request.**If you pay by credit card or debit card, you cannot later dispute the payment. Use our Fee Calculator to help determine your fee.

If you are submitting multiple forms, pay each filing fee separately. We are transitioning to electronically processing immigration benefit requests, which requires us to use multiple systems to process your package. We may reject your entire package if you submit a single, combined payment for multiple forms. 

Please do not submit this checklist with your Form G-1566. The checklist is an optional tool to use as you prepare your form, but does not replace statutory, regulatory, and form instruction requirements. We recommend that you review these requirements before completing and submitting your form. **Do not send original documents unless specifically requested in the form instructions or applicable regulations**.If you submit any documents (copies or original documents, if requested) in a foreign language, you must include a full English translation along with a certification from the translator verifying that the translation is complete and accurate, and that they are competent to translate from the foreign language into English.**Did you provide the following?**
                    - Proof death (such as a death certificate or obituary) for a person born less than 100 years ago, (if applicable);
                    - All possible names, aliases and dates of birth for the subject of the request;
                    - The country of birth for the subject of the request; and
                    - A valid U.S. mailing address.

**Filing Tips:**Review our Tips for Filing Forms by Mail page for information on how to ensure we will accept your form.

**Don’t forget to sign your form.** We will reject any unsigned form.

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

If you have questions about submitting Form G-1566, email certificateofnonexistence@uscis.dhs.gov.

04/01/2024

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