Comment Submitted by Catholic Legal Immigration Network, INC

Summary: The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC) opposes the Interim Final Rule regarding signatures on immigration benefit requests, arguing it is punitive, inefficient, and lacks sufficient data to support its assumptions of applicant malintent. They advocate for the rescission of the rule, noting it disproportionately harms low-income individuals by allowing USCIS to retain filing fees for curable technical errors discovered late in the adjudication process.