USCIS now rejects incomplete immigration filings without evidence requests

There is a government office in the United States called USCIS that decides who can come to live or work in the country.

It just changed its rules.

Before, if someone sent in a form with missing papers, the office would ask them for more proof before saying no.

Now, the office can say 'no' right away if the form is not complete.

This means people must be extra careful to send all their papers at the very beginning.

The new rules also give less time to fix mistakes — about 12 weeks for one kind of notice and only 30 days for another.

This affects workers on H-1B visas, who can lose their job and only have 60 days to find a new one.

Some of them tried switching to a visitor visa to stay longer while looking for work.

That trick is now much riskier because officials may think they never really planned to be visitors.

The office says the change helps make the line move faster for everyone.

But immigration lawyers say it makes things harder and less fair for people applying.