DHS USCIS Significant FOIA activity 4/1/2010 - Present

Jason Smathers filed this request with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the United States of America.
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COW2011000029

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Completed

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From: Jason Smathers

to: uscis.foia@dhs.gov

To Whom It May Concern:

This is a request under the Freedom of Information Act. I hereby request the following records:

A copy of each weekly submission of significant FOIA activity sent from USCIS to the DHS Privacy Office as required by The Chief Privacy Officer memo, February 9, 2005. Limit responsive records to those created on or after 4/1/2010.

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as I believe this request is in the public interest. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.

In the event that fees cannot be waived, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 20 business days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Jason Smathers

From: USCIS

From: Jason Smathers

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 27, 2010. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

From: "FOIA, USCIS"

USCIS has received information submitted from you to the FOIA mailbox. If you are submitting a FOIA request, this courtesy reply does not replace the Acknowledgement Letter which will be sent to you once your request has been scanned into our FOIA processing system. As this reply is automatically generated, do not respond to this notification.

From: Jason Smathers

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 27, 2010. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thank you for your help.

From: "FOIA, USCIS" <USCIS.Foia@dhs.gov>

USCIS has received information submitted from you to the FOIA mailbox. If you are submitting a FOIA request, this courtesy reply does not replace the Acknowledgement Letter which will be sent to you once your request has been scanned into our FOIA processing system. As this reply is automatically generated, do not respond to this notification.

From: USCIS

From: "FOIA, USCIS" <USCIS.Foia@dhs.gov>

Good morning Mr. Smathers:

We appreciate your inquiry. Please provide the control number for your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request; your control consists of 13 alphanumeric characters and is typically found on the upper right hand corner of all correspondence originating from our office. Once this information has been provided we will identify your request and provide to you a status update for your FOIA request and/or attempt to answer any other questions that you may have.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter,

From: MuckRock.com

Thanks. The control number is COW2011000029.

From: NRC, FOIASIG

Mr. Smathers,

Per the letter (dated February 16, 2011) informing you that your request (COW2011000029) was being coordinated with DHS’ Privacy Office, I am writing to inform you that we are currently not working on this case. All inquiries relating to this case should be sent to the Privacy Office per the February 16th letter.

Thanks and have a nice day!

From: Jason Smathers

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 27, 2010. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #COW2011000029.

Thank you for your help.

From: "FOIA, USCIS" <USCIS.Foia@dhs.gov>

USCIS has received information submitted from you to the FOIA mailbox. If you are submitting a FOIA request, this courtesy reply does not replace the Acknowledgement Letter which will be sent to you once your request has been scanned into our FOIA processing system. As this reply is automatically generated, do not respond to this notification.

From: "FOIA, USCIS" <USCIS.Foia@dhs.gov>

Good morning Mr. Smathers:

Your access request, assigned control number COW2011000029, was redirected to the DHS Privacy Office. We provided notification of this action to you on a letter dated February 16, 2011. On June 14, 2011 you made a similar inquiry to our office. We notified you of the same via correspondence dated June 14, 2011. No additional information is available. You may contact the DHS Privacy Office regarding your access request.

Thank you for your consideration in this matter.

From: Jason Smathers

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 27, 2010. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #COW2011000029.

Thank you for your help.

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 27, 2010. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #COW2011000029.

Thank you for your help.

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 27, 2010. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #COW2011000029.

Thank you for your help.

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 27, 2010. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #COW2011000029.

Thank you for your help.

From: MuckRock.com

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Dec. 27, 2010. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed. You had assigned it reference number #COW2011000029.

Thank you for your help.

From: "FOIA, USCIS" <USCIS.FOIA@uscis.dhs.gov>

This FOIA request was closed by USCIS and redirected to Department of Homeland Security on January 10, 2011. Any case update concerning this FOIA request would have to come from DHS.

From: Department of Homeland Security

From: FOIA <FOIA@HQ.DHS.GOV>

Mr. Smathers,

Please be advised that the DHS Chief FOIA Officer Weekly Reports for 2009, 2010 and 2011 are publicly available and located online in our FOIA library<http://www.dhs.gov/xfoia/foia-library-frequently-requested-records.shtm#2>. USCIS submissions would be included in these final reports:

2009: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/foia/chief-foia-officer-weekly-report-2009-redacted.PDF

2010: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/foia/chief-foia-officer-weekly-report-2010-redacted.PDF

2011: http://www.dhs.gov/xlibrary/assets/foia/chief-foia-officer-weekly-report-2011-redacted-amended.pdf

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