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May 2025 email on closing "99% of cases"

This request asks for an email sent around May 27, 2025 by a USCIS FOIA supervisor, proposing a way to close requests that the email describes as covering "99% of cases." The email is cited in Nightingale v. USCIS, a federal lawsuit over USCIS delays in releasing immigration files (ECF No. 193-1). The request also asks for all replies and forwards, and for records putting the approach into use, through December 31, 2025.

Why it matters
The email is described in the court record. Its replies and forwards could show how National Records Center and FOIA Program leadership responded to the proposal.
ProcessingExtension invoked 60 business days since filing (87 calendar days)

Figures as of Oct 17, 2026. Check after Nov 16, 2026: if you are reading later than that, these figures may be out of date.

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Extension invoked
USCIS told the requester it would invoke the 10-working-day "unusual circumstances" extension the law allows (5 U.S.C. 552(a)(6)(B)). What an extension means

Timeline

  1. FiledJul 22, 2026
  2. Acknowledged by USCISJul 31, 2026
  3. Final responseNot yet received

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Template T-06
The email sent on or about May 27, 2025 by a USCIS FOIA supervisor proposing a closure approach described as addressing '99% of cases' (referenced in Nightingale v. USCIS, No. 3:19-cv-03512 (N.D. Cal.), ECF No. 193-1), all replies to and forwards of that email (to include, but not limited to, replies and forwards by the National Records Center Director and by other National Records Center and FOIA Program leadership), and any additional TEAMS messages, meetings, notes, emails, guidance, memoranda, or training materials implementing or interpreting the approach it proposed, May 27, 2025 through December 31, 2025.
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