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What Does a USCIS Request for Evidence Look Like?

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the RFE, or the Request for Evidence. I do get some questions from folks. They actually ask me what one of these looks like. I am not going to put a whole one of these up but I am just going to go ahead and show the first page of one of these and we have redacted it so that it doesn't disclose any confidential information. 

As you can see, this is a fairly recently issued one. Unfortunately RFEs are getting issued with a lot higher degree of regularity than they once did. The frequency on these is kind of profound frankly and rather disconcerting. It does note the response time. You have a certain amount of time, you have a deadline with respect to when you need to respond to a Request for Evidence. It notes the petition type and then it will go on to note specifically where they believe there are deficiencies and what documentation that they feel will be necessary in order to meet or overcome those deficiencies in order to go ahead and ultimately receive an approval. In many ways, an RFE can be very helpful. It is sort of a roadmap of exactly what they want to see to get the thing done. Now obviously, we generally try to submit cases where we are not going to get one of these. Unfortunately, in the last roughly 3 years especially, especially the last 2, we have just seen a slew of RFEs in cases that we never saw RFEs in and over things, I mean frankly I would argue in certain cases they are not even legitimate. They just have made at least in a couple of the RFEs that I have seen, they made some really in my opinion, I hesitate to call it frivolous, but rather frivolous requests. It is like “clarification of what?”  My big issue, okay, if you are missing a document like a certified translation which does happen and sometimes they lose stuff from time to time too, but if you are missing something that is really dispositive or a strong piece of evidence okay but where you send in a ton of photos and they say they want to see more evidence of a relationship, well "How much is enough?" is often times the question. 

So, long story short, yes RFEs do happen. That is what they look like. Again, we will throw that up there so people can get an idea. That is sort of the covering page and then you will have sort of a list of things that they want to see thereafter. Yeah you just have to deal with them when they come up and just keep processing things through.