U.S. Department of the Treasury

“Payor” is the designation given to a CMS user that only has permission to pay a filing fee.  CMS users that are listed as contacts in a filing may designate a payor in instances when a person does not have a need to access the rest of the information contained in the CMS portal in connection with the filing of a notice.  Contacts listed in a notice filing who are not designated as “Payors” may also submit the filing fee.

A filing admin is a user on a filing with permission to add or remove other users on the filing.  A filing admin may add new users either as additional filing admins or as a non-admin user.  

Non-admin users can view all non-restricted uploads and submit the filing but cannot add or remove other users.  The initial creator of a submission will always be a filing admin.

Information saved prior to submission is stored in the CMS web platform hosted by the Department of the Treasury.  However, a CFIUS case officer will not begin review of the information until the draft or formal written notice has been submitted through the CMS.

The CMS accepts Excel, Word, and PDF files.

While certain fields of the web form require data for saving, processing, and submission, in order to streamline the efficiency of the CMS, parties are encouraged to upload Excel files for large spreadsheets.  In addition, parties may upload confidential responses as a separate document and enter “see Exhibit #” in the web form.  However, parties may not simply defer all responses to attachments when submitting a declaration or filing a notice.  Treasury may reject declarations and request the refiling of notices that only reference attachments.

Yes.  The CMS accepts individual files up to 20 megabytes in size.

Documents, such as personal identifier information, that are not to be accessed by other individuals on a filing must be uploaded as a “Restricted Document.”  If you upload a Restricted Document, then the uploader and CFIUS will be the only ones with access to the Restricted Document; no other individuals will be able to see the title of the Restricted Document.

Users should contact Pay.gov at https://www.pay.gov/public/home/contact.

Once a user submits a filing fee through the CMS portal, they will be taken to a “CFIUS – Payment Success” page.  If a payment is successfully submitted to Pay.gov, the payment status will say “Payment Submitted – Pending Receipt.”  Once the payment has cleared, the payment status will say “Payment Received,” indicating that the Pay.gov system has received the filing fee payment.  If a payment is not successful, the payment status will say “Payment Failed.”

Yes.  An ID.me account is necessary to access the CMS portal and pay the filing fee.  Instructions to create an ID.me account are found on the CMS page on the CFIUS website.