30-Day Public Comment Response Matrix

Form I-942-007 Revision - Responses to 30-day FRN Public Comments
Public Comments (regulations.gov): USCIS-2018-0002
30-day FRN Citation (federalregister.gov): 88 FR 41979
Publish Dates: June 28, 2023 – July 28, 2023
Comment #
1.

2.

Commenter ID
0028

0029

Comment
Commenter: jean poubliee
no reduced fees for foreigners. the usa
is constantly beseiged by foreigners
wanting to be coddled by us citizens,and
paid for as well. they dont want to pay
for anything. they just want to keep
sucking it all out of usa. enough is
enough. we are sending trillinos of
dollars to ukraine. and trilliosn to elvery
other country on earth. shut this down.
usa citizens are sick of this giveaway
program to foreigners who will spit in
our faces. it doesnt buy us any good will
at all ever. shut it down. defund any
waiers. say no. waiver and shut down
the fat cat bureaucracy of waivesrs. just
shut it down. defund it
Commenter: jean publiee
there should be zero foreigners
admitted to permanent status at this
time. zero. they are all lawbreakers who
have sneaked unlawfuly into the usa in
teh numbers of twenty million people.
they all should be thrown out and
deported as tghe sneaking lyinjg
lawbreakers that they are. they are here
for giveaways and to rob america. this
policy is balkaniziing america where
america is all differnet groups, none of
whom is workign together anymore. it is
a hodge podge of nobody who likes
anybody else. this country has been
changed drastically and the people dont
like it and they are ignored our govt is
non responsive to the american
people.we have govt hating the
american people, biden among them.
there shoudl be zero temps to
permanent citizens right now.none
shoudl be admitted.this chaos
ishappening under demented biden who

USCIS Response
Response: This comment is out
of scope for the proposed
revision.

Response: This comment is out
of scope for the proposed
revision.

Form I-942-007 Revision - Responses to 30-day FRN Public Comments
Public Comments (regulations.gov): USCIS-2018-0002
30-day FRN Citation (federalregister.gov): 88 FR 41979
Publish Dates: June 28, 2023 – July 28, 2023

3.
0030

4.
0030

is a terrorist against america imo. he is
ruining america.
Commenter: Immigrant Legal Resource
Center (ILRC)
Please find attached the Immigrant
Legal Resource Center's Comment for
Docket No. USCIS-2018-0002; OMB
Control Number 1615-0133

Commenter: Immigrant Legal Resource
Center (ILRC)
Finally, we again renew our request to
make both this form and Form I-912,
Request for Fee Waiver, available for
online filing. Currently, low-income
naturalization applicants who require a
fee waiver or a reduced fee are barred
from applying for naturalization online
as associated applications must be filed
in the same manner. It is our
understanding that USCIS seeks to
encourage the online filing of
naturalization applications as a matter
of efficiency and to reduce processing
times and administrative burdens
associated with paper applications.
While the ability to file paper
applications must be maintained, insofar
as an online filing is available as an
efficiency measure, low income
applicants should not be shut out of this
measure based on their need for a fee
waiver or fee reduction.

Response: See Comment
Response below labeled with
Commenter ID: 0030. The
information in the attachment
from the public comment
(0030) was separated into a
different section in this
comment matrix to address the
portion of information
individually.
See Comment # 4.
Response: USCIS appreciates
that providing an online filing
option for Form I-942 would
create efficiencies. USCIS
continues to add new form
options for electronic filing
based on an internal schedule
and agency priorities. USCIS
hopes to provide an online
filing option for Form I-942 in
the future.

Form I-942-007 Revision - Responses to 30-day FRN Public Comments
Public Comments (regulations.gov): USCIS-2018-0002
30-day FRN Citation (federalregister.gov): 88 FR 41979
Publish Dates: June 28, 2023 – July 28, 2023
5.
0031

6.
0031

Commenter: Naturalization Working
Group (NWG)
See attached file(s)

Commenter: Naturalization Working
Group (NWG)
A. Clarifying the Instructions for Part 2,
Item 1, Information About Family
Members Filing This Request With You
and Part 3, Item 3, Your Household Size
NWG Members report applicants having
difficulty understanding which family
members need to be included in the
tables in Part 2, Item 1 and Part 3, Item
3. USCIS proposes no revisions to the
Instructions and the Form for either of
these items. NWG recommends USCIS
clarify the Instructions and
accompanying text on the Form for both
of these items, because they could
confuse and possibly mislead applicants.
USCIS should change the language in the
Instructions and on the Form for Part 2,
Item 1 to make it clear that it is
requesting the names of all other family
members who are both filing Form N400 and requesting the reduced fee.
For Part 3, Item 3, USCIS seeks to elicit
from the applicant: 1) whether the
applicant provides primary financial

Response: See Comment
Responses below labeled with
Commenter ID: 0031. The
information in the attachment
from the public comment
(0031) was separated into
different sections in this
comment matrix to address
each portion of information
individually.
See Comment # 6. – 8.
Response: The revisions
proposed through this action
were limited to updating the
Certification section and minor
grammar changes. USCIS may
consider these
recommendations in a separate
comprehensive revision action
of the I-942 form and
instructions.

Form I-942-007 Revision - Responses to 30-day FRN Public Comments
Public Comments (regulations.gov): USCIS-2018-0002
30-day FRN Citation (federalregister.gov): 88 FR 41979
Publish Dates: June 28, 2023 – July 28, 2023

7.
0031

support for the household as the head
of the household, 2) if not the applicant,
who the head of household is, and 3)
who the other members of the
household are. If the applicant is not the
head of the household, to collect the
name of the family member who is,
USCIS must rely on the applicant
selecting “no” in response to Part 3,
Item 3 and then listing the name of the
head of the household on the second
line of the accompanying table. As for
the other members of the household,
Part 3, Item 3 of the Form only mentions
listing the applicant’s name or the
applicant’s name and the head of
household’s name—making no mention
of other members of the household. The
Form language should be changed,
along with conforming changes to the
Instructions, to ensure the three
categories of information USCIS wishes
to collect are clearer to applicants.
Commenter: Naturalization Working
Group (NWG)
B. Need for Online Filing of Form I-942
Providing an online filing option for
Form I-942 would minimize the burden
of the collection of information.
Currently, applicants can file Form N400 online or on paper, but can only file
an accompanying Form I-942 on paper.
Because an applicant can only file Form
I-942 on paper, they must also file Form
N-400 on paper (see citation on
attachment).
While many low-income applicants may
not have access to the computer
technology or broadband internet
access needed to file Form I-942 online,
where that access exists, low-income
applicants should have the same

Response: Please refer to
Response in Comment # 4.

Form I-942-007 Revision - Responses to 30-day FRN Public Comments
Public Comments (regulations.gov): USCIS-2018-0002
30-day FRN Citation (federalregister.gov): 88 FR 41979
Publish Dates: June 28, 2023 – July 28, 2023

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0031

opportunity to file their Form N-400
online as higher-income applicants do.
We note that filing the Form N-400
online leads to greater efficiency in
adjudication for both applicants and
USCIS. Efficiency measures should not
be reserved for those of higher financial
means. We urge USCIS to move forward
with providing online filing for Form I942 as swiftly as possible.
Commenter: Naturalization Working
Group (NWG)
C. Increase Threshold for Eligibility for
Reduced Fee
When USCIS solicited comments on
changes to its fee schedule in January
2023, it asked for comments on the
appropriate level of income that USCIS
should use to determine eligibility for
the reduced fee. We would like to
reiterate comments made at that time
that the requirement that household
income be less than 200 percent of the
federal poverty guidelines still prevents
a significant number of lower- and
moderate-income LPRs from qualifying
for the reduced cost, making
naturalization unaffordable. Thus, we
recommend that the agency adopt an
income threshold of 250% or less for
applicants to qualify for the reduced fee
(see citation on attachment).

Response: USCIS cannot adjust
the income eligibility threshold
for a reduced Form N-400 fee
in a form revision action under
the PRA because that FPG
percentage is codified at 8 CFR
103.7(b)(1)(i)(BBB)(1)(Oct. 1,
2020).USCIS is reviewing the
FPG threshold as part of the
USCIS fee rule. However, we
are unable to make a change
for this version of the form.