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Advocates Reach Settlement with USCIS Over Blank Space Policy

Advocates reached a settlement after challenging USCIS policy to reject applications with a blank response field. USCIS will accept the original submission date as the filing date for the applications it has identified as having been rejected pursuant to the policy

Advocates reached a settlement after challenging USCIS policy to reject applications with a blank response field. USCIS will accept the original submission date as the filing date for the applications it has identified as having been rejected pursuant to the policy.

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USCIS Confirms Elimination of “Blank Space” Criteria

 USCIS confirmed that it will no longer reject Form I-589, Application for Asylum and for Withholding of Removal; Form I-612, Application for Waiver of the Foreign Residence Requirement; and Form I-918, Petition for U Nonimmigrant Status, if an applicant leaves a blank space. USCIS stated that it has reverted to the form rejection criteria it applied before October 2019 regarding blank responses for all forms.

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USCIS Agrees to Stop Rejecting Applications and Petitions for Blank Spaces as of December 28, 2020

As a result of class action litigation in Vangala v. USCIS challenging USCIS’s No Blank Space” policy, USCIS has agreed to stop implementing the rejection policy for asylum applications and U visa petitions starting December 28, 2020. AILA provides a practice alert with additional details.