USCIS Flexibility for Responding to Agency Requests Set to Expire after July 25 | Corporate & Immigration News
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Ruttle Law Newsletter: W29-2022
Since 2020, the government has given everyone extra time to respond to requests by increasing the deadline 60 days beyond the original deadline.?For example, if they say "please respond by July 11, 2022" you actually have 60 days beyond that. USCIS will consider a response received within 60 calendar days after the due date set forth in the following requests or notices before taking any action, if the issuance date listed on the request or notice is between March 1, 2020, and July 25, 2022, inclusive:
However, that?rule expires on July 25. So no more "free" deadline extensions.?
More than a dozen states have passed abortion bans following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to end a constitutional right to abortion, forcing many women to cross state lines to access care. But for undocumented immigrants living in states with partial or full abortion bans, traveling to a neighboring state to get an abortion is fraught with peril.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection operates?more than 110 interior immigration checkpoints?along U.S. highways and roads. The fear of being stopped at a checkpoint makes it close to impossible for women without legal status to safely get an abortion. The National Abortion Federation, the professional association for abortion providers, has in recent weeks seen a?spike in calls?to its Spanish-language hotline from women afraid to seek an abortion outside of Texas for fear of getting deported, said Penelope DiAlberto, a regional case manager for the federation in Texas.
A 27-year-old undocumented Honduran immigrant living in Texas told Reuters she got an abortion in 2015, but if she faced an unwanted pregnancy now, abortion wouldn’t be an option. “In the position I am now, not having my papers, why would I risk myself?” she said.
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Recent FOIA disclosures show that Coinbase, the largest cryptocurrency exchange tool in the U.S., is?selling “historical geo tracking data” to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement(ICE), with no agreement limiting how ICE uses that data. The data will come from tracking transactions made with nearly a dozen digital currencies, such as Bitcoin, Ether, and Tether. According to reporting by?The Intercept, “[a]n email released through the FOIA request shows that Coinbase didn’t require ICE to agree to an End User License Agreement, standard legalese that imposes limits on what a customer can do with software.”
Coinbase claims that it “sources its information from public sources and does not make use of Coinbase user data,” but declined to provide information on how it is using that data. Coinbase has been attempting to position itself with government agencies as an intelligence tool in recent years,?selling its “Analytics” tracing software to the Internal Revenue Service(IRS), as well as the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) and?Secret Service.
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USCIS has four lockbox locations?– Chicago; Elgin, Illinois; Phoenix; and Lewisville, Texas; to collect?fees and receive applications.?
To get more information on why USCIS rejected your application. If you sent your application via mail more than 30 business days ago,?and?USCIS hasn’t processed your payment. USCIS has processed your filing fee, but more than 30 days have passed and you still haven’t received a receipt notice.
Practice Group Manager, Immigration at Greenberg Traurig
2 年thanks for the reminder!