Among the requests –
- Accept credit card payments for all cases filed at lockboxes and service centers. Among the types of cases where credit cards can’t be used are I-129 cases which are used to file most non-immigrant applications.
- Allow automatic bank transfers as opposed to having to send paper checks.
- Allow mail to be forwarded (versus the current USCIS policy of requiring the postal service to return such mail to USCIS).
- Allow for Request for Evidence responses to be submitted via email.
- Allow for submission of a photocopy of an approved ETA 9089 with an I-140 employment-based green card application (versus an original as is required now).
- Allow for the submission of digital signatures. USCIS recently said it’s okay to send a scanned original signature, but AILA argues that this is still not easy for people to produce on a document.
Here’s the AILA letter.