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OMB Control No: 1615-0030	ICR Reference No: 201903-1615-008
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201703-1615-008
Agency/Subagency: DHS/USCIS	Agency Tracking No: I-612
Title: Application for Waiver of the Foreign Residence Requirement of Section 212(e) of the Immigration and Nationality Act
Type of Information Collection: Extension without change of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved without change	Conclusion Date: 09/17/2019
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 04/30/2019
Terms of Clearance: Approved for two years only due to partial GPEA compliance.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	09/30/2021	36 Months From Approved	09/30/2019
Responses	7,200	0	736
Time Burden (Hours)	2,398	0	245
Cost Burden (Dollars)	882,000	0	90,160

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	7,200	736	6,464
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	2,398	245	2,153
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	882,000	90,160	791,840

Burden increases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Increase Due to:

Burden decreases because of Program Change due to Agency Discretion: No

Burden Reduction Due to:

Short Statement: There is a 2,153 increase in the estimated hour burden associated with the information collection. This is a result of an increase in the estimate of the total number of annual respondents based on USCIS projections and corrects an error due to an incorrect projection number generated at the time of the last submission of this information collection. There is no change to the form or instructions; the Privacy Notice in the instructions was updated. There is a 791,840 increase in the estimated cost burden associated with this information collection. This is a result of an increase in the estimate of the total number of annual respondents based on USCIS projections. There is no change to the form or instructions; the Privacy Notice in the instructions was updated.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $6,696,000

Does this IC contain surveys, censuses, or employ statistical methods? No

Does this ICR request any personally identifiable information (see OMB Circular No. A-130 for an explanation of this term)? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Does this ICR include a form that requires a Privacy Act Statement (see 5 U.S.C. §552a(e)(3))? Please consult with your agency's privacy program when making this determination. Yes

Is this ICR related to the Affordable Care Act [Pub. L. 111-148 & 111-152]? No

Is this ICR related to the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, [Pub. L. 111-203]? No

Is this ICR related to the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA)? No

Is this ICR related to the Pandemic Response? Uncollected

Agency Contact: Manuel Avendano 202 272-9747 manuel.a.avendano@uscis.dhs.gov