US Department of State:
US embassies and consulates are located around the world. If you're originating from outside the US you will be primarily dealing with the US consulate. If you are currently in the United States you may have to travel to your home country and submit your application from there. (This often happens when you are illegally residing in the USA or you have over stayed your visa limit). However, not all consulates provide visa processing services. To find more details about the US consulate nearest to your home do a Google search for the words "US consulate" and your home country.
Note: you cannot normally ask for an immigrant visa in a US embassy or consulate outside your home country unless the USA has no diplomatic relationship with the government of your homeland. You can submit an application for non-immigrant visas in third countries so long as you have never over stayed your permitted time in the USA.
For Example: If you are from a country such as Iran or North Korea you can travel to another country and submit an application to come into the US from there.
National Visa Center:
The NVC is a private company under contract which handles case files during certain immediate areas of the green card application process. After the USCIS approves a visa petition by a US based family member or company, the NVC is given the file and handles the situation until it's time for them to forward the file to the appropriate US consulate or USCIS district office.
US Citizenship and Immigration Services:
USCIS is an agency of the department of homeland security. If you are living outside the USA you might have to deal with USCIS, especially if you're applying for a green card. Most green card applications need to be started by a US based family member or company filing a visa petition with USCIS. USCIS has different types of offices that handle immigration applications including service centers and lock boxes (large processing facilities that serve a wide region, which you cannot visit face-to-face), district offices ( which interact with the general public by providing forms, information and holding interviews), sub offices ( like district offices, but smaller and with more limited services), Application Support Centers ( This is where you go to have fingerprints taken and in some cases pick up forms and or turn in applications) and lastly asylum offices ( where interviews on applications for political asylum are held).
The US Department of Labor:
In case your visa or green card application is based in a job with a US employer, certain parts of the paperwork may have to be filed with and ruled on by the DOL. The DOL's role is to make sure that hiring immigrant workers doesn't make it harder for US workers to get a job and that your being paid a fair wage (a wage that doesn't act to bring down the wages of US workers).
Even though you don't really need to learn a lot about these various agencies, it's important to monitor which one has your application as it makes its way through the pipeline.
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