Thanks for the replies.
I have found adjudicator field manual:Redacted Public version
lease guys also just glance and give your ideas too.
The following are extracts from manual.
Chapter:73:________________________________________________________________73.4 Jurisdiction.
(a) Introduction . To establish eligibility for naturalization, most applicants must file their application for naturalization with the State or Service District that has jurisdiction over his or her place of residence. In addition, most applicants must have continuously resided in the State or Service District for three months prior to filing the application. However, there are a few special classes of aliens who are exempt from this requirement. This chapter will discuss the basic eligibility requirement for naturalization that most applicants must have resided for three months in the State or Service District
prior to filing the application. In addition, it will discuss how to determine residence in special cases. Finally, it will discuss the exceptions to this requirement
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b) Understanding the Terms “State or Service District” and “Residence” . The term “State” is defined in section 101(a)(36) of the Act. Service District is defined in 8 CFR 316.1 as the geographical area over which an office of the USCIS has jurisdiction. The applicant’s residence is the same as the applicant’s domicile, or principal actual dwelling place, without regard to the applicant’s intent, and the duration of an applicant’s residence in a particular location is measured from the moment the applicant first establishes residence in that location. See section 101(a)(33) of the Act. You must understand the terms State or Service District and residence to be able to determine whether an applicant meets the requirement of having continually resided in the State or Service District for the required time period. You may encounter cases where determining the applicant’s place of residence
may not be a straightforward matter. These special cases as cited in 8 CFR 316.5 will be discussed in detail later in this chapter.
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(36) The term "State" includes the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, 23/ the Virgin Islands of the United States, and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands .
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§ Sec. 316.1 Definitions.
As used in this part:
Application means the form specified in § 499.1 of this chapter on which an applicant requests consideration for naturalization.
Service district means the geographical area over which an office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service has jurisdiction, as defined in § 100.4 of this chapter.
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§ Sec. 100.4 Field Offices. (Section 100.4 revised 11/14/95; 60 FR 57165 ) The territory within which officials of the Immigration and Naturalization Service are located is divided into regions, districts, suboffices, and border patrol sectors as follows:
(a) Regional Offices . The Eastern Regional Office, located in Burlington, Vermont, has jurisdiction over districts 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 21, 22, 24, 25, 26, 27, and 28; border patrol sectors 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 20, and 21. The Central Regional Office, located in Dallas, Texas, has jurisdiction over districts 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 19, 20, 29, 30, 38, and 40; border patrol sectors 6, 7, 15, 16, 17, 18, and 19. The Western Regional Office, located in Laguna Niguel, California, has jurisdiction over districts 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 31, 32 , and 39; and border patrol sectors 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14.
(b) District Offices . The following districts, which are designated by numbers, have fixed headquarters and are divided as follows:
13. San Francisco, California . The district office in San Francisco, California, has jurisdiction over the following counties in the State of California: Alameda, Alpine, Amador, Butte, Calaveras, Colusa, Contra Costa, Del Norte, El Dorado, Fresno, Glenn, Humboldt, Inyo, Kern, Kings, Lake, Lassen, Madera, Marin, Mariposa, Mendocino, Merced, Modoc, Mono, Monterey, Napa, Nevada, Placer, Plumas, Sacramento, San Benito, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, Shasta, Sierra, Siskiyou, Solano, Sonoma,
Stanislaus, S utter, Tehama, Trinity, Tulare, Tuolumne, Yolo,
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*Now above 13.Sanfrancisco DISTRICT office covers both Santa Clara and Alameda counties where I wanted to move in between .
**The apprehensive part is--But when I go to USCIS.gov-->USCIS Service and Office Locator-->
1)Local office San Jose covers the santa Clara county.
2)Local office Sanfrancisco covers the area of Alameda where I may need to move for example.
In this case what to to reckon with?
Sanfrancisco District office or local service offices as 'service offices' ?or Stae of CA itself??to be considered in CIS legality?
AND If I apply and move later to other county what happens?My file will be transferred
(Because now the present area covered by San Jose and interviews are being conducted there for these people here.)
Or Can I move to other county and apply with out waiting for 3 months since Sanfrancisco district office covers both counties?
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Note: I am not a lawyer and I am just a lay man without any legal knwledge.!
