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Finding the Federal Register Notice Behind a USCIS Form Revision
This Petition for Alien Relative revision notice was published before USCIS finalized any change. Here is its citation format, OMB number, and comment deadline.
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What matters now
- The Petition for Alien Relative revision notice was announced before USCIS finalized any change to the form.
- The Petition for Alien Relative revision notice carries citation 91 FR 43658, at pages 43658-43659.
- Its document number is 2026-14384, with a publication date of 07/16/2026.
- It lists OMB Control Number 1615-0012 and sets comments to close 09/14/2026.
- The E-Verify+ notice's title marks it as a mere extension, distinguishable from the Petition for Alien Relative revision notice.
A Federal Register notice is published on federalregister.gov, carries a formal citation (volume, page range, and document number), states the form’s OMB control number, and sets a public-comment closing date. One real notice — published July 16, 2026, proposing a revision to the Petition for Alien Relative — is used below as a worked example of what that citation and notice look like. In this instance, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced the proposed revision through this numbered, dated, publicly citable notice, which remains open for public comment, before finalizing any change to the form.
This original record-reading guide is a general reading aid, not cited evidence. It does not depict a source record; the article text and source links provide the facts.
Key points
- Title: “Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection: Petition for Alien Relative” (Federal Register, 2026-14384).
- Citation: 91 FR 43658, at pages 43658-43659 (Federal Register, 2026-14384).
- Document number 2026-14384, published 07/16/2026 (Federal Register, 2026-14384).
- OMB Control Number 1615-0012; comments close 09/14/2026 (Federal Register, 2026-14384).
- A separate E-Verify+ notice, which involved no revision at all, carries a distinguishable title: “Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension, Without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection: E-Verify+” (Federal Register, 2026-09845).
Publication and identification
DHS and USCIS collection-activity notices are published in the Federal Register, the U.S. government’s daily journal of proposed and final agency actions, at federalregister.gov. The worked example here is titled “Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection: Petition for Alien Relative” (Federal Register, 2026-14384). Its formal citation is “91 FR 43658,” meaning volume 91 of the Federal Register, page 43658, at “Pages 43658-43659” (Federal Register, 2026-14384).
Each notice also carries a unique document number, here “2026-14384,” and a “Publication Date 07/16/2026” (Federal Register, 2026-14384). A reader can cite or retrieve this exact notice using any of the three: the FR volume/page citation, the document number, or the publication date.
This notice identifies the proposal, its citation, and its comment window. It does not describe what actually changed on the face of the Petition for Alien Relative form; that detail is not part of the Federal Register notice itself.
Reading the notice title
The Petition for Alien Relative notice and the E-Verify+ notice examined here carry differently worded titles that match what each one proposes to do. The Petition for Alien Relative notice is titled “Agency Information Collection Activities; Revision of a Currently Approved Collection: Petition for Alien Relative,” matching its proposed change to the form (Federal Register, 2026-14384).
The E-Verify+ notice, which renews the collection’s approval without changing it, is titled “Agency Information Collection Activities; Extension, Without Change, of a Currently Approved Collection” (Federal Register, 2026-09845). In these two notices, reading the title identifies which of the two actions each one announces.
OMB number and comment window
The Petition for Alien Relative notice names “OMB Control Number 1615-0012.” It also states, “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) invites the general public and other Federal agencies to comment upon this proposed revision of a currently approved collection of information,” and is labeled a “60-Day notice” (Federal Register, 2026-14384).
The notice records that window’s end date directly: “Comments Close 09/14/2026” (Federal Register, 2026-14384).
Nothing in this notice, or in any Federal Register notice like it, indicates whether it has any bearing on an individual reader’s own filing or pending case; readers with a specific case should not treat this notice as guidance on their situation.
Source links
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/07/16/2026-14384/agency-information-collection-activities-revision-of-a-currently-approved-collection-petition-for
- https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2026/05/18/2026-09845/agency-information-collection-activities-extension-without-change-of-a-currently-approved-collection