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Mateo Moreno

Last-Minute Injunction Keeps Older USCIS Visa Forms Active. What It Means for the I-539, I-765, and I-485

View of the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse, Boston, Massachusetts on March 4, 2024. (Credit: Photo by Joseph Prezioso / AFP) (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

  • Hours before two widely used USCIS forms were set to switch editions on September 15, a Massachusetts judge halted the underlying visa rule, so the older paperwork is still the correct paperwork.

  • USCIS's own site now says it is honoring that order: the printed-and-ready 09/15/26 editions of Form I-539 and Form I-765 exist, but the agency is not taking them yet.
  • A third form, I-485 for green-card adjustment, was never part of this fight — its own edition swap lands Friday, September 18, over an unrelated "public charge" policy shift.
  • Government lawyers are widely expected to fight the block on appeal, so nothing here should be treated as locked in for long.

Overnight, a Deadline Got Postponed

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