USCIS Moving Toward Electronic Filing....Slowly

DHS recently published its first in an ongoing series of regulations aiming to change immigration benefit filings from paper to electronic. Finally, the agency will join the 21^st Century!. The switch to electronic filing, known for the record as "USCIS Transformation," will greatly assist the government in its processing of over six million immigrant benefit applications which are filed each year. Through this electronic system, applicants will be given accounts containing status information regarding various cases they may have; they will also be able to respond to USCIS requests for information through these accounts, receive other communications and decisions from the government, and update their own personal information as needed.