As expected, a request by a federal agency to shift its Delaware Avenue offices has cleared a regulatory hurdle. The Buffalo Planning Board approved a request by the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services to renovate and expand its downtown offices. The agency filed plans to upgrade a three-story, 29,500-square-foot building at 306 Delaware Avenue, and, at the same time expand it by constructing a two-story, 8,000-square-foot addition. Currently, the immigration office is one of several government…