Notice2025-19117
Agency Information Collection Activities; New Collection: Generic Clearance for the Collection of Certain Biographic and Employment Identifiers on Immigration Forms
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Published
October 1, 2025
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Homeland Security DepartmentU.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Abstract
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be submitting the following information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. The purpose of this notice is to allow an additional 30 days for public comments.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 188 (Wednesday, October 1, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 47318-47320]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-19117]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
[OMB Control Number 1615-NEW]
Agency Information Collection Activities; New Collection: Generic
Clearance for the Collection of Certain Biographic and Employment
Identifiers on Immigration Forms
AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
ACTION: 30-Day notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services (USCIS) will be submitting the following
information collection request to the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and clearance in accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995. The purpose of this notice is to allow an
additional 30 days for public comments.
DATES: Comments are encouraged and will be accepted until October 31,
2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and/or suggestions regarding the item(s)
contained in this notice, especially regarding the estimated public
burden and associated response time, must be submitted via the Federal
eRulemaking Portal website at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> under e-Docket
ID number USCIS-2025-0006. All submissions received must include the
OMB Control Number 1615-NEW in the body of the letter, the agency name
and Docket ID USCIS-2025-0006.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: USCIS, Office of Policy and Strategy,
Regulatory Coordination Division, John R. Pfirrmann-Powell, Acting
Deputy Chief, telephone number (240) 721-3000 (This is not a toll-free
number; comments are not accepted via telephone message.). Please note
contact information provided here is solely for questions regarding
this notice. It is not for individual case status inquiries. Applicants
seeking information about the status of their individual cases can
check Case Status Online, available at the USCIS website at <a href="http://www.uscis.gov">http://www.uscis.gov</a>, or call the USCIS Contact Center at 800-375-5283 (TTY
800-767-1833).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Comments
The information collection notice was previously published in the
Federal Register on May 29, 2025, at 90 FR 22750, allowing for a 60-day
public comment period. USCIS received 20 comments in connection with
the 60-day notice.
You may access the information collection instrument with
instructions, or additional information by visiting the Federal
eRulemaking Portal site at: <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a> and enter USCIS-
2025-0006 in the search box. Comments must be submitted in English, or
an English translation must be provided. The comments submitted to
USCIS via this method are visible to the Office of Management and
Budget and comply with the requirements of 5 CFR 1320.12(c). All
submissions will be posted, without change, to the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>, and will include any personal
information you provide. Therefore, submitting this information makes
it public. You may wish to consider limiting the amount of personal
information that you provide in any voluntary submission you make to
DHS. DHS may withhold information provided in comments from public
viewing that it determines may impact the privacy of an individual or
is offensive. For additional information, please read the Privacy Act
notice that is available via the link in the footer of <a href="http://www.regulations.gov">http://www.regulations.gov</a>.
Written comments and suggestions from the public and affected
agencies should address one or more of the following four points:
(1) Evaluate whether the proposed collection of information is
necessary for the proper performance of the functions of the agency,
including whether the information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the burden of
the proposed collection of information, including the validity of the
methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of the collection of information on those
who are to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology, e.g., permitting electronic
submission of responses.
Background
E.O. 14161, ``Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists
and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats,'' directs
implementation of uniform vetting standards and necessitates the
collection of all information necessary for a rigorous vetting and
screening of all grounds of inadmissibility and removability or bases
for the denial of immigration-related benefits. See 90 FR 8451 (Jan.
20, 2025). Implementation of the directives provided in the E.O.
requires U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to collect
standard data on immigration forms and/or information collection
systems. This data will be collected from certain populations of
individuals on applications for immigration-related benefits and is
necessary for the enhanced identity verification, vetting, and national
security screening and inspection conducted by USCIS and required under
the E.O.
This collection of information is necessary to comply with section
2 of the E.O. to establish screening and
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vetting standards and procedures to enable USCIS to assess an alien's
eligibility to receive an immigration-related benefit from USCIS. This
data collection is also used to validate an applicant's identity and to
help determine whether such grant of a benefit poses a security or
public-safety threat to the United States.
USCIS will collect biographic information on immigration
information collection instruments and systems. USCIS will update its
forms and systems to collect additional information from individuals
who seek admissibility or other benefits when that information is not
already collected.
New Information To Be Collected
U.S. Government departments and agencies involved in screening and
vetting, to include USCIS, identified 24 data elements that would
constitute a new baseline threshold of data to be collected for
improved identity verification and national security vetting. These 24
core data elements were published in the Federal Register at 90 FR
11054 on March 3, 2025, for a 60-Day notice and at 90 FR 42604 on
September 3, 2025, for a 30-Day notice. These six (6) new data elements
are in addition to and separate from the data elements for which USCIS
requested comments in the March 3, 2025, and September 3, 2025, generic
clearance notice, but they are also needed for further identification
and national security vetting and will be added to certain immigration
benefit request forms where the information is not already collected.
The following six (6) data elements are biographic and employment
identifiers used to help USCIS confirm both an individual's identity as
it relates to the submitted application and to other records. These
biographic identifiers are also used by USCIS and screening partners to
help confirm or disprove a relevant association between an applicant
and information of interest and the strength of that association in the
context of the underlying information.
1. Beneficiary/Applicant/Petitioner U.S. Social Security Number
2. Family Member (parent(s), spouse, sibling(s), and child(ren)) U.S.
Social Security Number
3. Employer/Business Name(s) from the past five (5) years
4. Employer/Business Mailing Address from the past five (5) years
5. Employer/Business Physical Address from the past five (5) years
6. Business Federal Employer Identification Number from the past five
(5) years
Programs Affected, OMB Control Numbers
<bullet> OMB No. 1615-0052--Form N-400, Application for Naturalization
<bullet> OMB No. 1615-0013--Form I-131, Application for Travel Document
<bullet> OMB No. 1615-0017--Form I-192, Application for Advance
Permission to Enter as a Nonimmigrant
<bullet> OMB No. 1615-0023--Form I-485, Application to Register
Permanent Residence or Adjust Status
<bullet> OMB No. 1615-0067--Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for
Withholding of Removal
<bullet> OMB No. 1615-0068--Form I-590, Registration for Classification
as Refugee
<bullet> OMB No. 1615-0037--Form I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative
Petition
<bullet> OMB No. 1615-0038--Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions
on Residence
<bullet> OMB No. 1615-0045--Form I-829, Petition by Investor to Remove
Conditions on Permanent Resident Status
Applicant information is collected to maintain a record of persons
applying for specific immigration benefits, and to help determine
whether these applicants are eligible to receive the benefits for which
they are applying. The information provided through USCIS forms is also
analyzed--along with other information that the Secretary of Homeland
Security determines is necessary, including information about other
persons included on the USCIS forms--against various security and law
enforcement databases to identify those applicants who may pose a
security or public-safety risk to the United States.
Overview of This Information Collection
(1) Type of Information Collection Request: New Collection.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection: Generic Clearance for the
Collection of Certain Biographic and Employment Identifiers on
Immigration Forms.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and the applicable component of the
DHS sponsoring the collection: GC-2025-0006; USCIS.
(4) Affected public who will be asked or required to respond, as
well as a brief abstract: Primary: Individuals or households. E.O.
14161, ``Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other
National Security and Public Safety Threats,'' directs implementation
of uniform vetting standards and necessitates collection of all
information necessary for a rigorous vetting and screening of all
grounds of inadmissibility and removability or bases for the denial of
immigration-related benefits. Implementation of the directives in the
E.O. requires USCIS to collect standard data on immigration forms and/
or information collection systems. This data will be collected from
certain populations of individuals on applications for immigration-
related benefits and is necessary for the enhanced identity
verification, vetting and national security screening, and inspection
conducted by USCIS and required under the E.O.
(5) An estimate of the total number of respondents and the amount
of time estimated for an average respondent to respond:
<bullet> The estimated total number of annual respondents for the
information collection N-400 is 909,700 and the estimated hour burden
per response is 2 hours.
<bullet> The estimated total number of annual respondents for the
information collection I-131 is 1,006,844 and the estimated hour burden
per response is 2 hours.
<bullet> The estimated total number of annual respondents for the
information collection I-192 is 68,050 and the estimated hour burden
per response is 2.08 hours.
<bullet> The estimated total number of annual respondents for the
information collection I-485 is 1,060,585 and the estimated hour burden
per response is 2 hours.
<bullet> The estimated total number of annual respondents for the
information collection I-589 is 203,379 and the estimated hour burden
per response is 2 hours.
<bullet> The estimated total number of annual respondents for the
information collection I-590 is 53,100 and the estimated hour burden
per response is 2.08 hours.
<bullet> The estimated total number of annual respondents for the
information collection I-730 is 13,000 and the estimated hour burden
per response is 2 hours.
<bullet> The estimated total number of annual respondents for the
information collection I-751 is 153,000 and the estimated hour burden
per response is 2 hours.
<bullet> The estimated total number of annual respondents for the
information collection I-829 is 1,010 and the estimated hour burden per
response is 2 hours.
(6) An estimate of the total public burden (in hours) associated
with the collection: The estimated total annual hour burden associated
with this collection is 6,947,028 hours.
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(7) An estimate of the total public burden (in cost) associated
with the collection: The estimated total annual cost burden associated
with this collection of information is $0. No additional costs to the
public are anticipated due to this action. Any costs to the respondents
associated with the specific form filed are captured in those approved
information collections.
Dated: September 26, 2025.
John R. Pfirrmann-Powell,
Acting Deputy Chief, Regulatory Coordination Division, Office of Policy
and Strategy, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, Department of
Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 2025-19117 Filed 9-30-25; 8:45 am]
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