Friends, the government is preparing to reopen.
Yes, reopen.
USCIS will reopen soon.
So what does that mean for you and your application?
Stay tuned.
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So we know that firstly the government had not really shut down.
If you're going through the immigration process in America, you know that the USCIS is still
moving your case forward.
It's still processing applications and petitions.
It's still given...
Some of you may have even received a fast approval of your work permit application and
so it's still working.
It was always working behind the scenes.
What had changed under the coronavirus is that they were no longer doing in-person interviews
and fingerprinting and all of that.
No in-person or no direct contact with the public.
So what's happening now is they've announced that on June 4th, they will reopen again to
the public.
Yes, June 4th.
At least that's the date they've given us so far as of the filming of today's video.
What does that mean for you if number one, you had a green card interview scheduled?
And obviously it was canceled under the coronavirus pandemic.
So automatically, you will receive a new notice with your new interview date and time.
So stay tuned for that.
You don't have to take any action.
The government will automatically reschedule your appointment.
What about those who had a naturalization oath ceremony scheduled?
What's going to happen with them?
They will also receive automatically a notice of the new date and time of their naturalization
oath ceremony.
What about folks who had biometrics appointments scheduled and they could not keep the appointment
because of corona?
Same thing, the government will automatically reschedule your appointment at one of its
application support centers.
Next, what if you had an InfoPass appointment, which you know is very rare today.
InfoPass appointments are very, very difficult to get.
But if you did have an info pass appointment that was scheduled by the government, you're
going to have to be proactive and you're going to have to reschedule it yourself.
And the government says that you've got to go through their contact center on their website
for more information about how to reschedule your InfoPass appointment.
So that's something you'll need to do on your own.
What about folks who had their asylum interviews schedule?
So for those of you who applied for asylum and you had your interview scheduled, the
government will first send you a cancellation notice, an interview cancellation notice and
then they will send you a reschedule notice.
So you don't have to take any step to reschedule your asylum interview.
The government will do so for you.
So that's the update in this video, friends.
June 4th is the date that the government is targeting to reopen to the public for green
card interviews once again, naturalization, oath ceremonies, biometrics appointment, and
InfoPass appointments and asylum appointments and any other type of appointments with the
public.
That's the date they're shooting for.
So with that being said, friends, share this information with others and I'll see you in
the next one.
Bye bye.