USCIS New York Asylum Office

The New York Asylum Office is one of the USCIS asylum offices, at 1065 Stewart Avenue, Suite 200, Bethpage, NY, 11714. Its USCIS Office Locator profile says: “The New York Asylum Office is in Nassau County, New York.” The profile points to USCIS’s page on how it schedules and prioritizes asylum interviews and says asylum applications are not filed at asylum offices.

General information, not legal advice. For your specific case, talk to an immigration attorney or an accredited representative.

Quick reference

As listed on the USCIS profile (checked October 17, 2026)
Office address1065 Stewart Avenue, Suite 200, Bethpage, NY, 11714
Phone(516) 261-0000
FaxNone listed on the profile
EmailNewYork.Asylum@uscis.dhs.gov
HoursMonday–Friday: By appointment only; Saturday–Sunday: Closed
Additional evidenceIf you have an application for asylum or NACARA 203 pending, you may submit additional evidence by email, fax or regular mail.
Satellite locations linked on the profileManhattan Satellite Office
USCIS office codeZNY
Profile last updated2026-10-09 14:09:50

Alert on the USCIS profile

Starting April 20, 2026, this office no longer provides in-person information services. Visit uscis.gov/tools to find a complete list of online tools to assist you. If you have visited our website and cannot find the information you need or you need a service that we can only provide in person, call the USCIS Contact Center at 800-375-5283. For people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability: TTY 800-767-1833.

States, counties and ZIP codes this office serves

The Service Area section of the USCIS profile says:

This asylum office serves the following counties of the State of New York: Dutchess, Kings (Brooklyn), Nassau, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond (Staten Island), Rockland, Suffolk, Sullivan, Ulster, and Westchester.

USCIS’s field-office-by-ZIP file dated August 28, 2026 assigns 661 active ZIP codes to this asylum office (code ZNY), by state or territory: New York (661).

Office policies on the USCIS profile

The profile lists these office-specific policies:

Interpreter Policy

Applicants applying affirmatively for asylum with USCIS who are unable to proceed with the interview in English must provide, at no expense to USCIS, a competent interpreter fluent in both English and applicant’s native language or other language in which the applicant is fluent.
Sign language interpreters are the only exception. USCIS continues to provide sign language interpreters as a disability accommodation. Follow the instructions on your interview notice to request a disability accommodation.
If you need an interpreter and do not bring one, or if your interpreter is not fluent in English and a language you speak, and you do not establish good cause, we may consider this a failure to appear for your interview and may dismiss your asylum application or refer your asylum application to an immigration judge. We will determine good cause on a case-by-case-basis.
The interpreter must be fluent in English and a language you speak fluently and must be at least 18 years old. The interpreter must not be:
Your attorney or accredited representative;
A witness testifying on your behalf;
A representative or employee of the government of your country of nationality (or, if you are stateless, your country of last habitual residence); or
An individual with a pending asylum application who has not yet been interviewed.

Evidence Policy

If you have an application for asylum or NACARA 203 pending, you may submit additional evidence by email, fax, or regular mail. Submit copies of evidence in duplicate (2 copies), accompanied by a certified English translation if not in English, and evidence must be 2-hole punched along the top (centered and 2 ¾ inches apart). Submissions may be stapled in the top left corner. If stapling is impracticable, the use of removable binder clips is encouraged. Submissions should not be bound on the side nor commercially bound, as items must be disassembled to fit into the record of proceedings and might be damaged in the process. The use of ACCO-type fasteners and paper clips is discouraged.

Biometrics Requirements

All applicants, regardless of age, must have their full-frontal photographs, digital signatures, and right-index fingerprints captured at an ASC. In addition, a 10-print fingerprint record is taken from applicants who are 12 years, 9 months old and older. If the applicant or any dependent did not take a 10-print fingerprint record at the ASC, please contact the Asylum Office when you receive an interview notice. If the applicant or any dependent has not complied with biometrics collection requirements, the asylum office will reschedule the asylum interview.

Getting there

DRIVING DIRECTIONS:
Take the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway to exit 9 for Plainview Road towards Plainview. (To get to the Seaford Oyster Bay Expressway, you can take the Southern State Parkway, the Long Island Expressway or the Northern State Parkway.)
If coming from the west, turn left onto Broadway.
If coming from the east, turn right onto Broadway.
Make a slight right onto Cherry Avenue.
Turn right onto Stewart Avenue.
The New York Asylum Office will be on your left hand side.

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION:
Public Transportation is available via train and bus.

For more information on public transportation please visit the following websites: www.mta.info and www.nicebus.com

Parking and accessibility

PARKING: There is a designated parking lot with free parking.

ACCESSIBILITY: This office is accessible to people with disabilities.

Pending asylum cases at this office

The USCIS Asylum Division Monthly Statistics Report with data through Dec. 31, 2024 is the most recent edition USCIS has published on its data hub (checked Oct. 17, 2026). For the New York office it gives these figures for affirmative Form I-589 asylum applications:

Month (2024)ReceivedCompletedPending at month end
October2,423465109,960
November2,8591,849110,970
December3,1672,144111,992

The 111,992 applications pending on Dec. 31, 2024 were 7.7% of the 1,446,908 pending nationally; between Oct. 31 and Dec. 31, 2024 this office's pending count changed by 2,032. Counts are applications, not people: one application can include a spouse and children as dependents. All offices: pending asylum cases by office.

What the profile says about how the office works

  • Asylum applications are not filed at asylum offices: the profile points to the “Where to File” instructions at uscis.gov/i-589.
  • Case status for a pending asylum application is checked online with the receipt number USCIS mailed after filing, at www.uscis.gov/casestatus.
  • Asylum offices do not directly provide case services assistance related to the status of specific applications or other associated services by telephone, because of confidentiality concerns.
  • The office does not adjudicate Form I-730, Refugee/Asylee Relative Petition; the profile points to www.uscis.gov/i-730.
  • Closures can happen for weather and other reasons; the profile asks visitors to check the USCIS office closings page before any visit, including a scheduled appointment.

Sources

Last verified: 2026-10-17. General procedural information for educational purposes, not legal advice; for your specific case, consult an immigration attorney or accredited representative. Office details come from the USCIS Office Locator and can change; check the office closings page and your interview notice.