An opportunity to talk back to USCIS

Your Opportunity to Provide Feedback on USCIS Regulations

On March 14, the DHS published a Notice (PDF, 3 pages - 59 KB) announcing a 30-day period for you to provide comments on current regulations and how they may be revised to better serve the public and reduce regulatory burden.

DHS is specifically seeking your suggestions on:

How best to develop a preliminary plan to facilitate the review of existing DHS significant regulations; and
Specific existing significant DHS rules that the Department should consider as candidates for modification, streamlining, expansion, or repeal.
DHS has noted that an overall goal is to make its regulatory program more effective while still achieving regulatory objectives. Regarding citizenship and immigration services, comments are often shared with the Ombudsman about potential underutilization of formal regulatory processes, and development of significant policy by memo rather than through the regulatory process. Take a moment to review the notice and consider how you would suggest specific ways that DHS can better achieve its regulatory objectives or which regulations you would identify as creating difficulty because of duplication, overlap, or inconsistency of requirements. Now is your chance to share your insight and suggestions with DHS on these issues.

DHS is requesting your feedback as part of implementing the President's January 18, 2011 Executive Order 13563 "Improving Regulation and Regulatory Review" (PDF, 3 pages - 49 KB) All feedback should be identified by docket number DHS-2011-0015 and can be provided in any of the following ways:

Visit IdeaScale which allows for public dialogue on an issue.
Visit www.regulations.gov and follow the instructions on that website.
E-mail: Regulatory.Review@dhs.gov and include "DHS Retrospective Review" in the subject line of the message.
Mail: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of the General Counsel
ATTN: DHS Retrospective Review
245 Murray Lane, Mail Stop 0485
Washington, DC 20528–0485
While all formal comments should be submitted to one of the above avenues, the Ombudsman's Office also welcomes your feedback about USCIS regulations, which can be emailed to cisombudsman.publicaffairs@dhs.gov.