Comment Submitted by ASISTA Immigration Assistance and CAST

Summary: ASISTA Immigration Assistance and the Coalition to Abolish Slavery and Trafficking (CAST) oppose the Interim Final Rule because it allows USCIS to deny benefit requests based on invalid signatures without providing an opportunity to cure the defect. They argue that this will disproportionately harm survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking who are already facing significant processing backlogs.