This USCIS Policy Memorandum dated December 15, 2010 on the revocation of VAWA-based self-petitions as an additional mechanisms for fraud checks built into the VAWA Self-Petitioning process. This Memo also provides reasoning why Field Offices should defer to VSC’s expertise and support for the centralization of VAWA applications to ensure consistency in the adjudication of VAWA self-petitions, including consistency in revocations of VAWA, and to ensure appropriate and expeditious handling all self-petitions filed by battered spouses and children at by adjudicators at the VAWA unit which have received specialized domestic violence training and have developed expertise in adjudicating these petitions, including expertise in identifying fraudulent filings at page 1-2.