Manual Filing of Appeal: appellate offices must accept manual appeals when the e filing portal prevents electronic submission.

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....Where an appellant cannot upload an appeal on the common electronic portal because the portal refuses filing absent deposit of a separate demand item, the office must accept a manually filed appeal; the core legal point is that a technical or procedural barrier on the e filing system that prevents initiation of an appeal constitutes a valid ground for manual presentation and obliges the appellate authority to receive and process the appeal manually.....