US Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) announced last week that due to the ongoing COVID-19 National Emergency announced by President Trump on March 13, 2020, the agency will accept all benefit forms and documents with reproduced original signatures, including for the Form I-129, Petition for Nonimmigrant Worker, for submissions dated March 21, 2020, and going forward. This means that a document may be scanned, faxed, photocopied, or similarly reproduced as long as the copy is of an original document containing an original handwritten signature, unless otherwise specified. For forms that require an “original ‘wet’ signature,” per form instructions, USCIS will accept electronically reproduced original signatures for the duration of the national emergency. Applicants who submit documents bearing an electronically reproduced original signature should also keep the original documents containing the “wet” signature since USCIS, at any time, can request the original documents. If upon request these original documents are not provided to USCIS, this “could negatively impact the adjudication of the immigration benefit.” The agency notes that this temporary change only applies to signatures and that all other instructions should be followed when completing and submitting a form.