When is your file considered filed?

[Filings2018 0]

If I were to send my file via UPS Next Day Air, with tracking and signature requirement, once the package is signed for, is my file considered filed?

When is it considered a file is accepted as filed?

Edited March 7, 2018 by Filings2018

[geowrian 22,337]

Is there a reason he exact date is important?

 

Beyond that, I believe it is the day the packet is delivered.

AFM: https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/AFM/HTML/AFM/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-1067/0-0-0-1095.html

[Filings2018 0]

I read somewhere it also has to be stamped? There is a form I could file for electronic notifications, but that's for lockboxes, and I haven't checked on the filing address yet.

 

Since we're on the topic, what is the difference between certified mail and using UPS, Fedex, DHL etc.. as confirmaion of delivery/recieving?

Edited March 7, 2018 by Filings2018

[payxibka 10,045]

5 minutes ago, Filings2018 said:

I read somewhere it also has to be stamped? There is a form I could file for electronic notifications, but that's for lockboxes, and I haven't checked on the filing address yet.

 

Since we're on the topic, what is the difference between certified mail and using UPS, Fedex, DHL etc.. as confirmaion of delivery/recieving?

What has to be stamped?

 

The USCIS does not care what delivery service you use.  USPS is the only one that can deliver to a PO box.  The others can only deliver to a physical address.  The 797c will give you the received date

 

 

[Going through 5,671]

It's considered filed according to the date it is delivered.

 

However, it is not considered *received* until someone manually opens it and checks it as completed....big difference between the two, should your application be rejected and mailed back to you due to something missing/incomplete information.

 

In other words, your application can be filed/delivered but then quickly sent back to you due to incompleteness on your part....which would then cancel out the original "filed" date, because when they send packages back for incompleteness/error it's as though they never received them in the first place.

Edited March 7, 2018 by Going through

[Filings2018 0]

2 minutes ago, Going through said:

It's considered filed according to the date it is delivered.

 

However, it is not considered *received* until someone manually opens it and checks it as completed....big difference between the two, should your application be rejected and mailed back to you due to something missing/incomplete information.

 

In other words, your application can be filed/delivered but then quickly sent back to you due to incompleteness on your part....which would then cancel out the original "filed" date.

Thank you. Then when is it considered recieved?

[Going through 5,671]

As I said above "until someone manually opens it and checks it as completed".

 

If the application is considered complete, the 797c will reflect the date of delivery.

 

Is there a reason you are concerned it has to get there on an exact date?

Edited March 7, 2018 by Going through