make check payable to?

[debby1 0]

this is a crazy question Im sure, but its almost 3 am and our papers are all in order, now Im writing the check, but who do I make it out to? USCIS? also, Im on my last check book, which doesnt have my married name on it, all our papers have my married name, but my check doesn't. Will this matter or should I put a line through the old last name and write in my married name?

Thanks as always

[Tom_Jim 40]

the payee is written on the I-485 instructions.

As for the check, doesn't matter really whose name is on the check

[AUBGER 0]

Better go to the US post Office and make a money order

According to the instructions it would be payable to the "U.S. Department of Homeland Security"

Check again though. I sent mine is yesterday. The reason we didn't use a check was because it specifically says that it had to be a money order or a check from a US Institution.

Hope this helps

[Melyssa 0]

Better go to the US post Office and make a money order

According to the instructions it would be payable to the "U.S. Department of Homeland Security"

Check again though. I sent mine is yesterday. The reason we didn't use a check was because it specifically says that it had to be a money order or a check from a US Institution.

Hope this helps

I read and couldn't find that in the instructions so thanks for posting... I probably just missed it because there was so much to read. I must have read through that thing 10 times. We put USCIS and hopefully that will be sufficient. I just read in another post that someone put USCIS Department of State instead of USCIS Department of Homeland Security and got an RFE for that. :S

[Kez/JWolf 6]

You do not have to send a Money order.... a personal check from a bank in the US is ok.... using a personal check you can see when it has been cashed.... with a money order you cant...

Kez

[Shub 78]

I read and couldn't find that in the instructions so thanks for posting... I probably just missed it because there was so much to read. I must have read through that thing 10 times. We put USCIS and hopefully that will be sufficient. I just read in another post that someone put USCIS Department of State instead of USCIS Department of Homeland Security and got an RFE for that. :S

Bottom of right of page 7 of 9 of the Instructions to form I-485:

Make the check or money order payable to U.S.

Department of Homeland Security, unless:

A. If you live in Guam and are filing your petition there,

make it payable to Treasurer of Guam.

B. If you live in the U.S. Virgin Islands and are filing

your petition there, make it payable to Commissioner

of Finance of the Virgin Islands.

And a little further down at the very top of page 8 of the same document:

NOTE: Please spell out U.S. Department of Homeland

Security; do not use the initials "USDHS" or "DHS."

[Jasman0717 9]

I made the AOS and I-751 checks to DHS

[SHELLYandFCO 0]

We did a cashier's check through our credit union: Department of Homeland Security. They had no problem taking our money.