Local USCIS office?

[Redheadguy03 505]

Is your uscis office always the one in your state? For instance, I live in Montana, but I'm about 5 hours from Helena, which is where my uscis office is. We may actually be closer to an office in another state since we're way on the east side of Montana. Also, is biometrics always done at the Uscis office? Or can you go somewhere else? 

 

Just trying to get a feel for where I'll have to be traveling to. 

[daigo 39]

For an example, I know that the Chicago field office covers parts of Indiana, and the St. Louis field office covers a lot of southern Illinois counties. So not everyone is limited to a field office in their state; it depends on where they reside in their state. There are also Application Support Centers that do biometrics outside of the actual field offices, so you may not necessarily have to go to your USCIS field office for your biometrics. You can google "USCIS application support centers" to see if there are any closer to you than your field office. I believe they try to schedule people at locations that are closest to them, and it looks like there are no field offices in ND and SD. Next one east is St. Paul in MN.

[Jordan8768 107]

Check on the uscis to see whether you're in their jurisdiction.