Registry entry

United States Alien's Change of Address (Form AR-11)

Report a change of address to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services using Form AR-11, as required of most non-citizens within 10 days of moving. This document describes the registrant's identity, the old and new addresses, the move date, and any pending USCIS cases that should also be updated. It does not submit the form; the live uscis.gov source is always authoritative (see verification).

Registry entry

us/uscis/change-of-address-ar11

Jurisdiction
United States · national
Version
1.2.0
Verification
draft
Authority
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

GovSchema spec v0.3

Authoritative source AR-11

Machine access

Schema document
registry/us/uscis/change-of-address-ar11/1.2.0/schema.jsonapplication/schema+json
Registry catalog
registry/index.jsonone record per schema id

Field reference

23 fields across 4 steps, read from the published schema.json — names, types, requiredness, and validation as the document states them. The live government form remains the authoritative source.

Your identity

  • lastName string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Your current legal family name.

    length: 1–100
  • firstName string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–100
  • middleName string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 0–100
  • otherNamesUsed string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Any other names you have ever used, including aliases and maiden name.

    length: 0–200
  • dateOfBirth date required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Full date, YYYY-MM-DD.

    classification: sensitive-pii
  • countryOfBirth string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–80
  • countryOfCitizenship string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–80
  • alienRegistrationNumber string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Your USCIS A-Number if you have one: the letter A followed by 7 to 9 digits (e.g. A012345678). Enter the digits with or without the leading A. Some registrants subject to address reporting do not yet have an A-Number.

    patternclassification: sensitive-pii
  • uscisOnlineAccountNumber string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Your 12-digit USCIS Online Account Number, if you have created an online account. Leave blank if you do not have one.

    pattern

Previous address

  • oldAddressLine1 string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The U.S. address you are moving from.

    length: 1–120
  • oldAddressLine2 string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 0–120
  • oldAddressCity string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–80
  • oldAddressState string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Two-letter USPS state or territory abbreviation when the previous address is in the U.S.; omit for a foreign previous address.

    pattern
  • oldAddressPostalCode string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. U.S. 5-digit or ZIP+4 format, e.g. 90210 or 90210-1234, when the previous address is in the U.S.

    pattern
  • oldAddressCountry string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Country of the previous address.

    length: 1–80

New address

  • newAddressLine1 string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The U.S. address you have moved to.

    length: 1–120
  • newAddressLine2 string optional

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 0–120
  • newAddressCity string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data.

    length: 1–80
  • newAddressState string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. Two-letter USPS state or territory abbreviation, e.g. CA, NY, TX.

    pattern
  • newAddressPostalCode string required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. 5-digit or ZIP+4 format, e.g. 90210 or 90210-1234.

    pattern

Move date and pending cases

  • dateOfMove date required

    Personal identifier; handle as sensitive data. The date you began residing at the new address, YYYY-MM-DD. Federal law requires AR-11 to be filed within 10 days of this date; v0.1 cannot enforce that deadline as a constraint, so consumers should check it against the filing date.

  • hasPendingCase boolean required

    If yes, the change of address should also be applied to those cases so notices reach the new address.

  • pendingCaseReceiptNumbers string optional

    Required only when hasPendingCase is true. List each pending form type and its receipt number (e.g. 'I-485, IOE0123456789'). A USCIS receipt number is three letters followed by 10 digits.

    length: 0–600

Version history

Independent and non-affiliated

GovSchema is an independent, open-source project. This reference is not produced, reviewed, or endorsed by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services or any government. The authoritative source is always the live government form and its official instructions.