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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 177 / Thursday, September 16, 2021 / Proposed Rules
Department should change its processes but does not contain specific information on what change should be considered or how a proposed change will reduce barriers, or otherwise improve existing processes, is less useful to the Department.
We highlight a few of those points here, noting that the comments that will be most useful to the Department are those that are guided by the below principles. Commenters should consider these principles as they answer and respond to the questions in this Request for Public Input:
Commenters should identify, with specificity, the regulation, order, guidance document, policy, or other similar agency action at issue, providing the relevant Code of Federal Regulation CFR citation if the comment recommends revising a current Department regulation. If a new regulation is being suggested addressing a subject matter that is not currently codified in regulations, it should be identified with as much specificity as possible and with references to the program/process and statutory authority.
Commenters should provide, in as much detail as possible, an explanation why a Department regulation, order, guidance document, policy, other similar agency action should be modified, streamlined, expanded, or repealed, as well as specific suggestions about how the Department can better achieve its objectives and reduce unnecessary burdens on the public.
To the extent feasible, commenters are invited to provide specific information on the costs, burdens, and benefits of existing requirements and/or how proposed changes would reduce costs and burdens, and/or increase benefits to the Department or the public.
Commenters also are invited to address how the Department can address procedural obstacles to fair and efficient adjudications related to immigrant visas attributable to existing regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, and any other similar agency actions, and whether there are existing sources of data that the Department can use to identify and evaluate inefficiencies and unwarranted barriers to accessing the Departments visa-related services.
Comments should emphasize any unduly burdensome processes that have been in effect for enough time to warrant a fair evaluation, in most cases for more than one year.
Comments that reiterate substantive issues already raised in public comments submitted on recently issued rules will be less useful, unless they
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provide new informationby, for example, pointing to new studies or data, or offering novel alternatives.
B. List of Questions for Commenters The below non-exhaustive list of questions is meant to assist members of the public in formulating input, and is not intended to restrict the input that members of the public may provide:
1 Are there any immigrant visa related regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, or other similar agency actions that you consider to be unjustified or excessive barriers that impede easy access to immigrant visarelated services and fair, efficient adjudication of immigrant visas? For any identified barrier, is the perceived barrier created by duplication, overlap, or inconsistency of requirements?
2 Are there any immigrant visa regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, or other similar agency actions that impose undue burdens on applicants that are not tailored to achieving the Departments objectives?
3 Are there any immigrant visa regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, or other similar agency actions that disproportionally and unreasonably burden disadvantaged, vulnerable, or marginalized communities? If so, please specify the regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, or other similar agency actions to include citations of any applicable Department regulations, providing a description of the specific burden and the relevant communities.
4 Are there immigrant visa regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, or other similar agency actions for which implementation could be modified to reduce unnecessary administrative burdens? For example, are there regulations, orders, guidance documents, policies, or other similar agency actions, specifically that could be modernized, streamlined, or otherwise improved?
5 Is there information you believe the Department currently collects from immigrant visa applicants that it does not need or that is not effectively scoped to information relevant to the adjudication of an immigrant visa application? Are there immigrant visa regulations, forms or other information collections that have been overtaken by technological developments?
6 Are there new technologies that the Department should consider leveraging to modify, streamline, or do away with existing immigrant visa regulatory or form requirements?

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Additionally, the Department is interested feedback on the following:
1 Communication a. How could the immigrant visa application system Consular Electronic Application Center be improved to make the required steps in the immigrant visa application process clearer? How can the Department better communicate information regarding the status of active immigrant visa cases, what steps the applicant may need to take to advance the case, and when the case will be scheduled for interview?
2 Websites a. If you consulted nvc.state.gov to learn about the immigrant visa process, what could be improved about it?
b. If you have used the countryspecific document finder tool reciprocity,3 how could it be improved? If you have used postspecific interview instructions found on individual posts websites, what could be improved about them?
c. Are there aspects of visa appointment scheduling the Department should consider modernizing, streamlining, or otherwise improving?
Detailed suggestions are most helpful.
Instructions: If you submit a comment, you must include the agency name, Department of State, and RIN
1400AF30 for this request for public input in the title or body of the comment. Regardless of the method used for submitting comments or material, all submissions will be posted, without change, to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http
www.regulations.gov, and therefore will include any personal information you provide. Therefore, because all submissions will be public, you may wish to consider limiting the amount of personal information that you provide.
The Department of State may withhold from public viewing information provided in comments that it determines may infringe privacy rights of an individual or is offensive. For additional information, please read the Privacy Act notice available in the footer at http www.regulations.gov.
Zachary A. Parker, Director, Office of Directives Management, Department of State.
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3 https travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/usvisas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-byCountry.html.

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