If you received a Request For Evidence or Notice of Intent to Deny in the past few days,
you should know that USCIS now has a new policy, a flexible policy, to give you more time to
respond. Watch this video and I'll tell you more. Hi, everybody. This is Jacob Sapochnick,
an immigration attorney here in San Diego, California. And I wanted to create this quick
video to give you an update about a recent update from USCIS we just received today about
a new policy with respect to Requests For Evidence or Notices of Intent to Deny. Before
that, if you’re here for the first time, make sure to subscribe to our channel. Click
that bell to be notified and also, follow us on Instagram or TikTok. So, let's dive
in. So, typically, when you receive a Request For Evidence or Notice of Intent to Deny,
you typically have either 30 days or 90 days to respond. But if your notices arrived between
March 1st and May 1st, you will receive an extra 60 days to respond to those notices.
And this is really important because right now, people are locked down, people are on
quarantine, you're not able to go and obtain evidence that you need. Sometimes, you need
to get documents, you need to get copies. And this policy change that they announced,
giving the extra 60 days, will be very helpful because once, hopefully, we are out of quarantine,
we're able to go out, get copies from the court or obtained documents that we need to
make copies, that will give us some more time to respond and make our case definitely stronger.
So again, if you received your RFE before March 1st, that rule is not going to apply.
So, the 60 days grace period is not going to be applicable to you. If you received that
intent or Request For Evidence between March 1st and May 1st, then you will have an extra
60 days to respond to your Request For Evidence. So, I have a case right now where the applicant
is required to obtain certain documents from the court. Courts are currently closed. So
there's no way the client is able to do so. And getting the extra 60 days to respond actually
helps us a lot. So remember it had to be received between March 1st and May 1st for you, guys,
to be able to get the extra time. So, hopefully, that information is helpful. If you need help
with any RFEs, make sure you post it in the comment or send me an email. My email is right
here below. So, thanks for watching. Stay safe. And most importantly, follow our channel,
follow our videos. We’ll provide updates here every day, even from my house that I'm
right here quarantined, I'm still able to… I'm still trying to make videos to update
you, guys. So remember, RFEs, Notice of Intent to Deny, don't get stressed, you'll get 60
more days as long as your notice arrived between March 1st and May 1st. And again, we expect
the USCIS to definitely be more flexible in the next few months. You can see that from
extensions where the clients are filing for extensions of stay, people are about to overstay,
and now, they're able to ask for leniency from the USCIS. And the same kind of trend
is also applicable here with those Requests For Evidence. And we definitely expect to
see more of that from the USCIS which we definitely commend them for that and it makes my job
easier. It also helps relieve the stress. And again, the idea is to contain the spread
of the rise. You don't want people to be out and about right now trying to collect evidence
on RFEs. You have to be at home right now, following the orders and have to worry about
responding to the RFE later on, you get more time, the same thing for extensions. And the
same thing for missing your interviews, because… since USCIS is now closed, everything will
be rescheduled. So, it's like, everything is coming together, and all with the idea
of trying to contain this virus but this particular update was specifically for Request For Evidence
and Notice of Intent to Deny which are very time-specific. Those received March 1st to
May 1st, are now going to get 60 extra more days to respond. So, hopefully, this information
was helpful. Thank you for watching, and I'll see you in our next video. Plenty of other
updates to come and I'll be sitting right here making those videos that keep you posted
and updated. Thanks for watching.