Error at NSC Reroutes L-2 EADs
Posted Apr 04, 2003

The mailroom personnel at the Nebraska Service Center (NSC) have been rerouting Applications for Employment Authorization Documents (EADs) filed by L-2s to the Missouri Service Center (MSC). This mistake is attributed to a misunderstanding of the category by the mailroom staff. The appropriate staff members will receive proper instruction.

In the interim, the MSC is issuing receipt notices for these cases and then transferring them to the NSC for processing. For reasons of internal processing procedure, the cases cannot be properly redirected before the receipts are issued. The MSC receipt notices contain extraneous information about fingerprinting and photographing. This should be ignored for L-2 cases, as it does not apply to this type of case.

The MSC will issue a transfer notice. The NSC will not issue a new receipt notice, but all follow-up must be with NSC after the case transfer. The back-and-forth transfer will cause delays in the processing of the EADs. At this point, there is no information available as to the number of cases affected by these errors.