EOIR Guidace Post-Memo on NTA Acceptance

Matthew Hoppock filed this request with the Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review of the United States of America.
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2019-45638

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From: Matthew Hoppock


To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Records from 12/21/2018 to the date this request is processed reflecting the agency guidance to any immigration court regarding whether to reject an NTA as facially incorrect per the 12/21/2018 memo.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, 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,

Matthew Hoppock

From: Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review

Status FOIA 2019-22889

From: Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review

Matthew, we are confused because we have this tied to another requester, also via Muckrock.

From: Matthew Hoppock

On 04/03/2019 I submitted the following request via MuckRock:
"To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Records from 12/21/2018 to the date this request is processed reflecting the agency guidance to any immigration court regarding whether to reject an NTA as facially incorrect per the 12/21/2018 memo.

The requested documents will be made available to the general public, and this request is not being made for commercial purposes.

In the event that there are fees, 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,

Matthew Hoppock"

The link to my request is here: https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/eoir-guidace-post-memo-on-nta-acceptance-71413

I am not aware of any other requesters who are also pursuing these records.

Matthew L. Hoppock

From: Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review

Oddly, we received a request on or about March 11, 2019 from another requester with the exact same language:

Pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, I hereby request the following records:

Records from 12/21/2018 to the date this request is processed reflecting the agency guidance to any immigration court regarding whether to reject an NTA as facially incorrect NTAs per the 12/21/2018 memo.

We will log yours in as a separate request.

Wr/JRS

From: Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review

An acknowledgement letter, stating the request is being processed.

From: Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review

Matthew, this is #87 of 121 complex FOIA requests. Wr/JRS

From: Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review

Matthew, a search was initiated and we await results. Wr/JRS

From: Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review

Matthew, please see FOIA response attached.

Wr/
Joseph R. Schaaf
Senior Counsel for Administrative Law
Executive Office for Immigration Review

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