Local USCIS Office in Oakland Park, Florida
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) provides its services through an official website, a phone service, and its different offices located throughout the country.
Miami and Tampa are two of the Districts where USCIS has field offices. The federal agency has divided the U.S. into 4 Regions and 26 Districts.
The Oakland Park Field Office
The Chicago Field Office is administered by Director Martha Medina-Maltes, and it is located at:
Oakland Park (OKL) 4451 NW 31st Avenue Fort Lauderdale, FL 33309
The USCIS office serves the following counties:
- Broward
- Collier
Besides handling interviews on non-asylum applications, field offices arrange citizenship events and provide limited information (Detailed information is available on the USCIS website). More information about field offices, including field office locations, is available on the following page.
Case Processing Times
The USCIS Gives processing times for the various application it receives. This time can be in the form of a range (as given below) or in the standard format. Here is the time it takes to process the N-400, N-600, and N-600K applications at the Oakland Park field office:
- Citizenship and Issuance of Certificate Under Section 322 (N-600K): 6.5 months to 25.5 months
- Certificate of Citizenship (N-600): 6.5 months to 16 months
- Naturalization (N-400): 6 months to 13 months
As is clear from these processing times, your case can take months and even multiple years to process, depending on the application.
For each case, however, the USCIS provides a date on which you can ask about the progress of your case. You can find this date on the same USCIS page as the processing times, given as the case inquiry date. If the date mentioned as “receipt date” on your notice comes earlier than the inquiry date, then you are entitled to ask about the delay in the processing of your case. You don’t have to call or visit the Oakland Port office to ask as you can do it online through an e-request.
International Processing Times
If you’ve submitted your application to an international office, you may find its processing times from the following section of the USCIS site. Currently, the section only has processing times for the following forms: I-130, I-131, and I-730.
Sources of Information
The USCIS website has information on all immigration-related topics, ranging from immigration options and form filing to case status checks and the citizenship test.
Besides the different sections of the site, you can also get automated help from a virtual assistant, called Emma. The assistant provides answers in English and Spanish. Another source of automated help is the phone line: 800-375-5283. You can get answers in English and Spanish and information delivered to your phone or email.
If you feel the need to talk to a representative, you can do so by calling the same, toll-free, number given above. Representatives are available 8:00 to 20:00 Eastern, Mon-Fri. If you are calling from outside the U.S., then the number is 212-620-3418.