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

This file is the source-review record for this document version, per the manual-source-review-v1 practice. It documents the provenance of the published fields and flow and states the current verification claim honestly.

Current claim

• status: draft
• verification.method: manual-source-review-v1
• verification.lastVerifiedAt: 2026-06-30

The document was derived from and cross-checked against the official source below, but the full field-by-field comparison the practice requires (manual-source-review-v1 → Procedure step 2) has not yet been completed and recorded against the live AR-11 online tool and form. It therefore remains draft, not verified.

Source examined

• Document (id, version): us/uscis/change-of-address-ar11 / 1.0.0
• Spec version: GovSchema 0.1.0
• Authority: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS)
• Primary source URL: https://www.uscis.gov/ar-11
• Official form id: AR-11 (Alien's Change of Address Card)
• Retrieved / reviewed: 2026-06-30
• Reviewer: GovSchema Engineering (initial authoring source-review)

What was confirmed against the source

| Source element | Field(s) | |---|---| | Most non-citizens must report a change of address within 10 days of moving | dateOfMove (rule recorded in its description) | | Identity block: name, other names used, date of birth, country of birth, country of citizenship, A-Number, USCIS Online Account Number | lastName…uscisOnlineAccountNumber | | The previous (old) address and the new address are both collected | oldAddress*, newAddress* | | The date of the move is recorded | dateOfMove | | Registrants with pending applications/petitions report the form types and receipt numbers so those cases are also updated | hasPendingCase, pendingCaseReceiptNumbers |

Temporal and conditional rules (not encoded structurally in v0.1)

• The 10-day filing deadline is a temporal rule measured from dateOfMove to the filing date. v0.1 has no cross-field or temporal constraint mechanism, so it is recorded in the dateOfMove description; consumers must check it themselves.
• pendingCaseReceiptNumbers is required only when hasPendingCase is true — a conditional-required rule recorded in the field description, not encoded (tracked in GSP-0004).
• The previous address may be foreign, so its state/ZIP are optional while the new (U.S.) address requires them.

What is NOT yet independently verified

• The exact field order and labels of the live AR-11 online tool were not captured screen-by-screen; sourceRef annotations are indicative, derived from the public AR-11 page and the form's known structure.
• The A-Number pattern (A?[0-9]{7,9}) and the receipt-number convention (three letters + 10 digits) are reasonable encodings consistent with USCIS formats, not citations of a published USCIS validation rule.
• Penalties for non-compliance and the distinction between the online tool and the paper AR-11 are described on the live source and intentionally not encoded.

Path to a verified claim (next step)

To advance to status: verified, a reviewer applies manual-source-review-v1 (Procedure step 2 field-by-field against the live AR-11 tool, step 3 flow), confirms the source is authoritative, resolves any discrepancy by shipping a new schema version (immutability — VERSIONING §3, practice Procedure step 5), and records the outcome here plus sets status: verified with a current verification.lastVerifiedAt/nextReviewBy.

Re-verification

Per the practice's Cadence, nextReviewBy is set to 2026-12-30 (6 months): USCIS has periodically expanded the AR-11 field set. Re-check the source on or before that date and on any source.url change.