Student visas

Erica Raleigh filed this request with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services of the United States of America.
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COW2022005696

COW2022005605REQ

Status
Completed

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From: Erica Raleigh

To Whom It May Concern:

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

A digital table (.xls, .xlsx, .csv, or similar format) containing information about all F-1 student visa holders who used the Optional Practical Training (OPT) portion of the F-1 visa from 2017-2022, with the following fields of data:
- City of student's address in the U.S.
- State of student's address in the U.S.
- Employer name
- City of employer's address
- State of employer's address
- Student's country of birth
- Student's country of citizenship
- Student's level of education
- Title of first major
- Title of second major
- Degree level (bachelors, masters, doctorate)
- STEM or non-STEM degree
- Name of school
- City of school
- State of school
- City of student's foreign address
- State or province of student's foreign address
- Country of student's foreign address
- Employment start year
- Employment end year
- Actual employment start year
- Actual employment end year

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,

Erica Raleigh

From: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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Erica Raleigh,
Your USCIS FOIA/PA request has been submitted and assigned the following control number, COW2022005696. An Acknowledgement Letter with important information regarding your request has been electronically delivered to the myUSCIS account you created.
Please log into your account at https://first.uscis.gov to retrieve, view, and download the letter. (https://first.uscis.gov)

If you have troubles logging into your account, please call the USCIS Contact Center toll-free at 800-375-5283.
For people who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech disability: TTY 800-767-1833.

Thank you,

Cynthia Munita
Director, FOIA Operations

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From: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

USCIS FOIA - Case status change (https://first.uscis.gov/favicon.ico)
Erica Raleigh,
Your USCIS FOIA/PA request has been submitted and assigned the following control number, COW2022005696. An Acknowledgement Letter with important information regarding your request has been electronically delivered to the myUSCIS account you created.
Please log into your account at https://first.uscis.gov to retrieve, view, and download the letter. (https://first.uscis.gov)

If you have troubles logging into your account, please call the USCIS Contact Center toll-free at 800-375-5283.
For people who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech disability: TTY 800-767-1833.

Thank you,

Cynthia Munita
Director, FOIA Operations

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From: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

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At your service,

Linda Davis
Public Liaison
Customer and Support Team, FOIA
National Records Center
Lee's Summit, MO 64064
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From: Erica Raleigh

Good afternoon,
It looks like maybe there was supposed to be an attachment to this message, but all I can see are three images.

Thank you,
Erica Raleigh

From: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Good evening,

Thank you for your inquiry. Please note the estimated completion date of August 15, 2024 is an estimated date based on average processing times. Individual requests may take more or less time. For this reason, USCIS also provides your "Place in Queue". We reviewed your request and determined it is currently 149 in a queue of approximately 308 requests. In the interest of fairness to all requestors, USCIS processes requests in the order received and will process your request as soon as possible. Please feel free to monitor your place in queue by utilizing the following link https://first.uscis.gov/#/check-status.

At your service,

Linda Davis
Public Liaison
Customer and Support Team, FOIA
National Records Center
Lee's Summit, MO 64064
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From: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

USCIS FOIA - Case status change (https://first.uscis.gov/favicon.ico)
Erica Raleigh,
Your USCIS FOIA/PA request COW2022005696 has been completed. A Final Action Letter with important information regarding your request has been electronically delivered to the myUSCIS account you created.
Please log into your account at https://first.uscis.gov to retrieve, view, and download the results. (https://first.uscis.gov)

If you have troubles logging into your account, please call the USCIS Contact Center toll-free at 800-375-5283.
For people who are deaf, hard of hearing or have a speech disability: TTY 800-767-1833.

Thank you,

Jarrod Panter
Acting Chief FOIA Officer

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From: Muckrock Staff

Good Afternoon,

Thank you for your continued partnership on this request. Please know that I am unable to access the responsive documents on your portal as the following control number was never issued a correlated PIN: COW2022005696. Please advise at your earliest convenience.

Thank You,
MuckRock Staff

From: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Good afternoon,

A PIN is not required to register a request made through the myUSCIS portal. A PIN is only required when registering a paper request. Please select "No" when prompted to enter a PIN.
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At your service,

Linda Davis
Public Liaison
Customer and Support Team, FOIA
National Records Center
Lee's Summit, MO 64064
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From: Erica Raleigh

Hi Linda,

On logging into my USCIS account, the FOIA request is entirely missing under "My Requests". I can't find any correspondence or documentation of COW2022005696.

We're completely unable to access anything related to this FOIA request.

From: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

Good evening,

The documents related to this request have been digitally released. To view the Document Library, sign into your account here: https://myaccount.uscis.gov/ then click on the down arrow next to the gear icon. The documents can be downloaded by selecting the arrow icon or printed using the printer icon. Please note Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the documents. I have attached instructions for you to reference when using our Digital Release system.

Our system archives every 60 days. Expanding the date search range will allow you to see all of your registered requests. We recommend using a search range of 01/01/2019 through today’s date. We hope this allows you to retrieve your records.

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At your service,

Linda Davis
Public Liaison
Customer and Support Team, FOIA
National Records Center
Lee’s Summit, MO 64064
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