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Update: After mailing our RFE response on the due date (specifically sending it overnight via FedEx from the same city that we needed to send it to), my husband got his removal of conditions application approved and now has his 10 year green card!! 🎉 Thanks all for the reassurances and information! If someone else finds themselves in this stressful situation, know that there is cause for hope.

Thanks for all the helpful responses! An update: My husband drove to Portland today, and as expected, the guard said they no longer allow people to drop things off in person. The guard was helpful though, and suggested a nearby FedEx where it might be possible to get same-day delivery. (It looks like that USPS same-day delivery is for businesses only) Most importantly, the guard said that for the due date, they look at when it was postmarked, not when it was received. (You're right, @Family) So we've feeling super relieved to hear that. I'll add another update when we get a response from USCIS to share whether this actually worked.

Hi, My husband (conditional LPR) and I (US citizen) are in a stressful situation this weekend and was hoping some folks here might know the answer to some of our questions. We filed for removal of conditions in September 2021. We got a RFE a few months ago saying that since so much time has passed since we filed that, they want recent evidence that we continue to be married. We stupidly wrote down the wrong due date for the RFE response, and when we went assemble our response packet this weekend, we saw that the due date is actually this Monday (the 3rd, tomorrow). We scrambled as fast as we could on Saturday, but missed the last pick-up for FedEx express/overnight. The RFE says we should send our response to the field office in Portland, OR. We're not super optimistic about this, but our plan at the moment is to drive the couple hours to Portland on Monday, and see if we can drop it off in person. If the guard does not let us do that, we'll ask the guard if couriers are allowed to deliver to the field office and what address they should use. Then we'd call a local same-day local courier in Portland to take the packet from our hands inside the building. So, a couple questions, for anyone who has an idea about one or more: 1) Does anyone know whether the Portland field office has any way for people to leave mail in some kind of drop box? 2) Does anyone know whether a local courier would be able to drop something off when we are not? 3) The RFE says "You must send the requested information by mail to the address shown below by July 3, 2023." . Is there a chance they mean that it needs to be postmarked by July 3rd and not necessarily received by then? 4) Somewhat similar to the above, does USCIS ever consider things that arrive a day after the due date? 5) If the removal of conditions application is denied because of this, what happens next? Does my husband need to leave the country immediately? Can we re-apply through an I-130 petition? Thanks for any help/guidance you can provide. This has been an incredible stressful and scary weekend for us.