Immigration FOIA Requests video
Every agency's request drafted and tracked, every returned page read, and the client's history on one dated line with the risks pinned where they happened. 1:17
What the film shows
Files FOIA requests to USCIS, CBP, ICE, EOIR and State, then turns the returns into a history
Agents draft each agency's request with the client's name variants, consent and hearing proof, track every clock, read every returned page, place each event on one dated line, flag prior removals, false claims and missed hearings where they happened, and draft the history memo. The paralegal files; the attorney confirms the flags and signs.
Transcript
- Immigration FOIA Requests files records requests with five agencies, then builds a cited history.
- USCIS gets over two thousand requests a day, one per person.
- Rafael's five requests went out in February and took nine months.
- Today the 1,140-page A-file lands; forty-one events snap onto one line.
- A red flag appears at 2014: expedited removal, page 212.
- Every event opens its page, with the agency's redactions intact.
- A 2012 visa refusal surfaces, so a State Department request is drafted.
- ICE withheld thirty-eight pages, and the appeal is signed in time.
- Leocadia signs the cited memo that day, twenty-two days before the hearing.
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The narration as written for the film. Captions are on the player.