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Inside Immigration

Plain-language guides to US immigration, asylum and USCIS procedure.

Forms

G-325A Biographic Information (for Deferred Action)

Collects addresses, employment, and family history from someone requesting deferred action outside the DACA, VAWA, T and U programs. It is used for military-based deferred action, labor-investigation-based deferred action, medical and humanitarian requests, statelessness cases, and government referrals. USCIS uses it to run background checks on the request.

Fee
$0 for most categories; $520 (paper) if you check the box in Part 3 asking for an employment authorization document with the deferred action grant, except for Special Immigrant Juvenile deferred action, which stays at $0
Fee waiver
Available (Form I-912)
Who files
A person asking USCIS for deferred action, other than through DACA, VAWA A-3/G-5, or T or U status.
Where to file
By mail to the USCIS office named in the instructions for the specific deferred action category.

Usually filed with

Part of these processes

What changed in 2025 and 2026

  • The 01/20/25 edition folded the EAD request into the form itself. Deferred action policy has been volatile since 2025; USCIS has narrowed or paused several referral-based categories.

Official page. https://www.uscis.gov/g-325a. Download the form there, never from a third-party site; check the edition date and fee before filing.