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OMB Control No: 1615-0040	ICR Reference No: 201802-1615-001
Status: Historical Active	Previous ICR Reference No: 201712-1615-005
Agency/Subagency: DHS/USCIS	Agency Tracking No: I-765, I-765WS
Title: Application for Employment Authorization
Type of Information Collection: Revision of a currently approved collection	Common Form ICR: No
Type of Review Request: Regular
OIRA Conclusion Action: Approved with change	Conclusion Date: 05/31/2018
Retrieve Notice of Action (NOA)	Date Received in OIRA: 02/28/2018
Terms of Clearance: Approved for two years only due to partial GPEA compliance.

	Inventory as of this Action	Requested	Previously Approved
Expiration Date	05/31/2020	36 Months From Approved	05/31/2018
Responses	4,276,299	0	4,939,993
Time Burden (Hours)	10,550,549	0	8,997,383
Cost Burden (Dollars)	367,575,520	0	651,308,752

ICR Summary of Burden

	Total Approved	Previously Approved	Change Due to Adjustment in Estimate
Annual Number of Responses	4,276,299	4,939,993	-663,694
Annual Time Burden (Hours)	10,550,549	8,997,383	1,553,166
Annual Cost Burden (Dollars)	367,575,520	651,308,752	-283,733,232

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 has been an increase in the estimated annual hour burden for this collection of information due to an increase in the average time burden per response. USCIS increased the estimated time per response from 3.42 hours to 4.5 hours to account for the addition of new questions on the form and new language in the instructions. There has been a decrease in the estimated annual cost burden for this information collection. USCIS has decreased this estimate because Form I-765 is filed concurrently with a number of other USCIS forms, and therefore many of the costs associated with filing the I-765 would be covered under the primary form filed by the respondent.

Annual Cost to Federal Government: $862,962,895

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: Kerstin Jager 214 489-8022 kerstin.a.jager@uscis.dhs.gov