Appendix A - Public Comments Matrix

I-601A Extension 60 and 30 Day FRN Public Comments Matrix

Comment #	Public Comments	USCIS Response
Comment 1.	Commenter: John Flanagan
	I'm an attorney in private practice with significant experience preparing this form over the last 5 years. The estimated hour burden per response is unrealistic given the documentation requirements. Even just getting proof of NVC fee bills and evidence of qualifying relative status is a multi-step, time-consuming processing. This doesn't even touch the detailed and meticulous documentation required to meet the extreme hardship standard. A more accurate estimate would be at least 40 hours.	Thank you for your comment. USCIS will reevaluate the current estimated time burden for Form I-601A during the next revision action and make adjustments if needed.
Comment 2.	Commenter: jean publiee
	i am definitely against any more use of this form. this form should be immediately shut down. nobody should enter the usa with this form and be allowed to be here for 60 days. they lie and never show up after 60 days. they are not here to follow laws. they are here to do whatever they want to hurt americans, to steal, to rob, to be on welfare rolls. to use our medical system all at trillions of dollars to american taxpayers. keep themin mexico forever. we have laws and senile lousy job biden who cant think straight these days is allowing this vicimitzaiont of american citizens to take place by lousy foreigners who b elong in their own hellhole of a country. we dont want them making america into their latest hellhole.	Comment not germane to the information collection.
Comment 3.	Commenter: Anonymous
	I question the amount of time and the cost listed in this proposed policy change. I view it as inflated. Further I support the data collection of information from undocumented, asylum seekers and visitor(visa holders) to the United States of America. ICE and DHS do a terrible job of tracking or removing VISA overstays in this country which is the largest source of unauthorized entry into the USA. Further THIS FAILURE TO COLLECT DATA AND TRACK AND REMOVE VISA OVERSTAYS was found by the BiPartisan 9/11 committee as a THREAT TO NATIONAL SECURITY. Therefore it is inherent on citizens to ask that OMB/ICE/DHS and other federal agencies collect as much updated data as possible on those who have either flaunted our immigration laws and borders to enter the US unlawfully OR who may have come legally for a certain time frame and might accidentally or intentionally decide to overstay. Therefore in my opinion it is a small price to pay to have the unlawful and lawful migrants, visa holders, Temporary Protected Status holders to provide their most updated data and that Federal Agencies grant as few waivers as possible in providing this documentation. It makes citizens and visitors safer.	Comment not germane to the information collection.
Comment 4.	Commenter: Anonymous
	In regards to the hardship requirements, perhaps you could take some advice from the commenters checklist you guys have listed. “ one well supported comment is often more influential than a thousand form letters” It doesn’t take a 2+ inch thick packet filled with proof to know that someone who has been here for 5/10/20 etc. years, will suffer hardships if they are uprooted from the lives they have made.	Comment not germane to the information collection.
Comment 5.	Commenter: jean publiee
	if an illegal immigrant is in the us and is an unlawful presence, they shoudl be immediately deported to their home contry.if there is any appeal from that determination that appeal shuld come while the illegal immigrant is back in their own country not here. we are sick of the 5 million illegal immigrant that have violently forced their way into the usa and are commmitging crims all over gthe usa and who want to get freebies for everytibng including medical care (they are bankrupting our hospitals) including free schooling for their kids and including food, clothese, free everything, including telephones that we pay for, and they get free transport around the country and even freee money from states like corrupt nj. send them home. get rid of them. they have countries , let them use their own countries to take over ,not here. nobody invited them except dorrupt politicians for nefarous pursuits to hurt americans	Comment not germane to the information collection.

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