Where do I get the G-146 Voluntary Departure Form?

Question

Where can I get the G-146 form to complete my voluntary departure verification process? I've called the ICE, visited the UCIS website, and even googled G 146, but I came up with nothing. Where exactly can I get the form?

Answer 1

One means of verifying departure is the Nonimmigrant Checkout Letter , Form (G-146), which aliens can obtain from an immigration office and take to the U.S.Consulate in their native country. There, a consular official must sign the form and attach a picture of the alien to verify that he or she has departed.

The consular office is then responsible for sending the completed form back to the immigration office. During observations of removal proceedings by Officials at the Vera Institute of Justice, immigration judges did not inform aliens that they could obtain this form to verify their departure. This non-profit organization that conducted a demonstration project for immigration in New York maintained that most of the aliens they have worked with had no knowledge of this form.

If you entered the United States legally as a non-immigrant, the your Non-Immigrant Arrival/Departure Record (I-94) can serve as a verification of departure.

You may want to communicate with the U.S. consulate in your country by email or phone to see if they have a supply of form G-146. You are probably not the first person who has run into this problem, and the Dept. of State may have a solution.