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- On to the USCIS and State Department's operational status,
there's a lot going on there to discuss.
The good news is that the USCIS is still receiving
and processing paperwork,
so if you have a petition to mail in,
we're mailing them every day here
from our office in Las Vegas,
so they're still accepting and it's actually a great time
to get your petition in
and get in the queue.
So while some things are not happening right now,
what is happening is they're still accepting a petition.
So if you're thinking about filing,
if you're in the process,
or even if you haven't started yet,
you can still do that.
We see people having a few struggles,
maybe gathering some of those personal documents you need,
but when it comes time to submit it to us,
or the CIS, both of those are still working as usual.
USCIS announced flexibility to present required signatures
and COVID national emergency,
so they are accepting scan signatures in many cases,
and then they've announced some RFP flexibility,
so basically what this means,
if you received a request for evidence,
during this period, you have another 60 days
to reply to that before it will be considered
that you didn't respond.
So a little more time there,
and I'm skimming through some of this stuff,
'cause some is very detailed,
obviously, if you have questions,
you can give us a call,
or check the COVID page on our website,
we got a link right at the top,
and we link to the direct USCIS
State Department notifications,
where you can read the fine print of some of these things.
But the good news,
the main thing is you can still submit a petition, now.
The bad news is USCIS has suspended the in-person services,
so if you had an interview,
or you're trying to do an info pass appointment
or something, you're not going to be able to do
that right now,
and at least until about June 4th,
but again, things are in flux,
that could always be extended, we don't know.
And the Department of State
which runs the embassies, of course,
they have also suspended the routine services,
which includes interviews.
So you can't do an interview
at the US Embassy overseas right now.
But again, that's a very different thing
than submitting your petitions,
still send your petition in,
you're just gonna be delayed.
If you were close to having your appointment,
or you already had an appointment scheduled,
all of that stuff is going to be delayed.
And in fact, you would have been notified by now,
if you had appointment in the last month,
or next month or you know,
if you already had a scheduled appointment at the embassy,
by now you should have received notification
that that'll be rescheduled.
So you will be rescheduled,
if you're that part of the process,
your petition has not been canceled,
it's still gonna happen,
there just going to be a delay.
And of course, now there's a travel ban,
which also impacts everybody,
as far as, well impacts everybody who's trying to travel
but obviously if you're trying
to process an immigration benefit
you needed to travel to do that,
not being able to travel of course is gonna
stop you from processing that pieces of the puzzle.
Okay, so again,
check out our website rapidvisa.com/coronavirus
or just go to rapidvsa.com, look at the top, there's a link,
and will get you to where we have more details.
And I'm skimming through things fairly fast
because we have a lot of people waiting today
and so we wanna get to your questions.
And so with that,
I'll say either call us or check out our page
or you can always go directly to uscis.gov
and you find a lot of good information there.
Click on, at the top there's a news link
and if you click that,
they list all in detail the things
that I've been talking about.
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