美国公民和移民服务局(USCIS)最近的一项政策转变是，如果表格没有完全填写，允许政府官员自动拒绝签证申请，导致一些最弱势的申请人的申请立即被排除。

根据华盛顿邮报，美国移民律师协会(AILA)收集了多达140个签证申请人由于“不完整”的表格而难以获得批准的例子。

对于40多岁的无证危地马拉母亲尤兰达来说，她申请美国签证是为了帮助协助执法的犯罪受害者留在美国，她的儿子没有中间名似乎是她申请被拒的原因之一。

尤兰达，他的中间名被邮报为了保护她的身份，由一个支持移民家庭的非盈利组织妇女和儿童移民中心代理张贴她在忍受了令人痛苦的性侵犯后申请了签证。

尤兰达告诉记者，十多年来一直没有记录在案邮报她最初害怕申请美国签证。然而，据该报报道，律师告诉她，她有一个“灌篮案”，所以经过几个月的商议，她决定将她的案子向前推进。

然而，据报道，移民局拒绝了她的申请，声称她的申请不完整。原因，她被告知，根据《邮报》，是因为她留下了不适合她空白的盒子，包括一个要求她儿子中间名的部分，她留下空白是因为他没有中间名。

在AILA网站上的一份声明中，该组织警告说，移民申请被拒绝的报道“由于声称的不完整，最近变得更加频繁”

AILA说，在美国移民局于10月份在该机构的申请表上增加了以下几行内容后，这一数字有所上升:“如果您将任何字段留空，我们将不接受您的表格I-589。您必须回答表单上的所有问题，即使回答是“无”、“未知”或“不适用”。

如果是这样的话，尤兰达的代理律师杰西卡·法布(Jessica Farb)表示:“在特朗普政府的领导下，将会有数百人被处理，他们在法律上拥有中间名‘不适用’。”

现在，由于尤兰达案件中的路障，她的大儿子不再有资格，因为他已经年满21岁，超过了资格年龄。美国签证计划允许她将大儿子作为申请的一部分。

然而，尤兰达的家人并不是唯一受该政策影响的人。

在一个案例中，一名8岁的儿童在被问及他们的就业历史时没有被列入名单，据报告，在他们的就业历史日期留空后，他们的申请被拒绝。

2018年10月12日，德克萨斯州埃尔帕索，一位来自危地马拉的母亲带着她的孩子在移民收容所散步。一位无证件的危地马拉母亲说她的美国签证申请被拒绝，因为她留下了不适合她的空白部分。

与此同时，另一名申请人在列出了他们的三个兄弟姐妹后，他们的申请被驳回，但在表格上留下一个空格作为第四个空格《邮报》。

新闻周刊已联系美国移民局就今年年初生效的政策转变发表评论。

在致《邮报》，该机构表示，申请者“必须提供所要求的具体信息，并回答所有的问题”

新闻周刊已经联系了移民妇女儿童中心和AILA进行评论。

GUATEMALAN RAPE SURVIVOR HAD U-VISA REQUEST REJECTED BECAUSE SHE DIDN'T FILL OUT DETAILS LIKE HER SON'S MIDDLE NAME: REPORT

Arecent U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency policy shift is allowing government officials to automatically reject visa applications if forms are not completely filled out, leading some of the most vulnerable applicants to have their cases immediately ruled out.

According to the Washington Post, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) has collected as many as 140 examples of visa applicants struggling to have their cases approved due to "incomplete" forms.

For Yolanda, an undocumented Guatemalan mother in her 40s who sought a U-visa, which is meant to help victims of crime who assist law enforcement stay in the U.S., the fact that her son does not have a middle name appeared to be one of the reasons her application was denied.

Yolanda, whose middle name has been used by The Post to protect her identity, is being represented by the Immigration Center for Women and Children, a nonprofit supporting immigrant families, told the Post that she had applied for the visa after enduring a harrowing sexual assault.

Having been undocumented for more than a decade, Yolanda told The Post that she was initially afraid to apply for the U-visa. However, lawyers told her she had a "slam-dunk case," according to the newspaper, so after months of deliberating, she decided to bring her case forward.

USCIS reportedly rejected her application, however, asserting that her filing was incomplete. The reason, she was told, according to The Post, was because she had left boxes that did not apply to her blank, including a section requesting her son's middle name, which she left blank because he does not have one.

In a statement on AILA's website, the organization warns that reports that immigration applications have been denied "due to claimed incompleteness have recently grown more frequent."

AILA said the rise has come after USCIS, in October, added the following lines to the agency's application forms: "We will not accept your Form I-589 if you leave any fields blank. You must provide a response to all questions on the form, even if the response is 'none,' 'unknown' or 'n/a'."

If that is the case, Jessica Farb, an attorney representing Yolanda, said: "There's going to be just hundreds of people processed under the Trump administration who will legally have the middle name 'N/A'."

Now, as a result of the roadblock in Yolanda's case, her eldest son, whom the U-visa program had allowed her to include as part of here application, no longer can no longer qualify, since he has turned 21, passing the age of eligibility.

Yolanda's family is not the only one affected by the policy, however.

In one case, an 8-year-old child who had "none" listed when questioned on their employment history, reportedly had their application denied after leaving the dates of their employment history blank.

A mother from Guatemala walks with her child at an Annunciation House shelter for migrants on October 12, 2018 in El Paso, Texas. An undocumented Guatemalan mother says her U-visa application was denied because she left sections that did not apply to her blank.

Meanwhile, another applicant had their application denied after listing the three siblings they had, but leaving a box on the form with space for a fourth blank, according to The Post.

Newsweek has contacted USCIS for comment on the policy shift, which took effect at the start of the year.

In a statement to The Post, the agency said applicants "must provide the specific information requested and answer all the questions asked."

Newsweek has contacted the Immigration Center for Women and Children and AILA for comment.