Written by ASAP’s expert immigration lawyers · Updated
This is a notice from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), stating that your asylum case is being transferred to immigration court. Since 2025, USCIS has sent some asylum applicants directly to immigration court without giving them an asylum interview first. If you received this notice, you may also receive a Notice to Appear in immigration court.
If your case is sent to immigration court, you can continue to seek asylum in immigration court. To check whether an immigration court hearing has been scheduled for you, enter your A Number on this immigration court website (see this flyer) or call the immigration court hotline at 1-800-898-7180 (see this flyer).
The notice says that USCIS will send a copy of your asylum application to your immigration court. However, your immigration court may not have received your asylum application by the time of your first hearing. You can bring a copy of this notice and your asylum application to your first hearing.
Learn more about the immigration court process.
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