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U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will create a new
(fourth) regional office in Orlando, Florida, and split two existing
management districts ‑‑ those in San Francisco and Miami -- in two to
create two new districts, to be headquartered, respectively, in
Sacramento, California, and Tampa, Florida, USCIS Director Emilio
Gonzalez announced on Nov. 3. The new regional office in Orlando will
manage all district and field offices in USCIS's Southeast Region, which
currently encompasses North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Puerto
Rico, the Virgin Islands, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana.
These changes are part of what USCIS is calling a "realignment"
of its regional, district, and field offices. According to the bureau,
it will not close or relocate any of its local offices as a result of
the realignment, but henceforth they will be referred to as "field
offices" rather than "district offices." Each field office will be
managed by a "field office director" who will report to a district
director. District directors will not be responsible for directly
managing any particular field office; rather, they will focus on
managing their district.
According to the news release announcing the realignment, "Over
time, USCIS will redefine the geographic jurisdiction of each local
office based on the zip codes that are nearest to each office without
regard to previous jurisdictional boundaries and state lines."
The USCIS news release is available at
www.uscis.gov/files/pressrelease/RealignNR_110306.doc.
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