This policy memorandum (PM) and accompanying revisions to the AFM articulate USCIS policy regarding assigning appropriate gender designations on documents issued to transgender individuals and the adjudication of benefits applications involving the marriage of transgender individuals. This PM supersedes the following: Memorandum for Regional Directors et al, Adjudication of Petitions and Applications Filed by or on Behalf of, or Document Requests by, Transsexual Individuals (April 16, 2004); and, Adjudication of Petitions and Applications Filed by or on Behalf of Transsexual Individuals (January 14, 2009).