USDA Delays Implementation of GUS’ Revised Doc Upload Process
August 7, 2015
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Rural Housing Service has delayed the implementation of the revised document upload process for guaranteed single-family home loans. The changes to the document-uploading component in the RHS Guaranteed Underwriting System (GUS) will be implemented on Aug. 26, not Aug. 12 as initially planned, to ease current restrictions on RHS’ document upload. However, an application must first be established before uploading any document into GUS. This can be done by completing the first three pages of a GUS application. Previously, users were not allowed to upload documents into GUS until a final submission had successfully processed. In addition, before the changes to the document uploading process, only users with a security designation that included “final submit authority” were allowed to upload documents. The revised system now allows users with a security designation of ...