Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced that they are extending the flexibilities announced last year in March 2020. They decided to allow these courtesies to give applicants a sufficient amount of time to respond to notices in regards to their petitions. This flexibility allows applicants an additional sixty calendar days after the response deadline indicated on the notice request to submit a response to the notice. The extended flexibility applies to notices that were issued by USCIS between March 1st,2020, and January 31st, 2020.

What documents qualify for the extended response time?

     Applicants who received any of the below-mentioned documents dated between March 1st, 2020 and January 31st, 2020 have the opportunity to take the additional 60 days to respond to the notice:

• Request for Evidence.
• Continuations to Request Evidence (N-14)
• Notices of Intent to Deny
• Notices of Intent to Revoke
• Notices of Intent to Rescind and Notices of Intent to Terminate regional investment centers
• Filing date requirement for Form N-336, Request for a Hearing on Decision on Naturalization Proceedings
• Filing date requirements for Form I-290B, Notice of Appeal, or Motion

UCSIC allows this flexibility because they acknowledge that the coronavirus pandemic has made it difficult for applicants to complete forms or retrieve necessary documents and evidence on time. For this reason, they have decided to provide the additional time to submit and requested documents to USCIS.