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Florida Attorney General · Policy and practice · Request IRW-133

Florida Attorney General's exchanges with USCIS on certificates of non-existence

This request asks the Florida Office of the Attorney General, including the Office of Statewide Prosecution, for its communications with USCIS from January 1, 2025 about certificates of non-existence (Form G-1566) and about getting USCIS records, including A-files, for state prosecutions or immigration enforcement; any agreement or written procedure for getting those records; and records showing how many it asked for or received.

Why it matters
Under USCIS's April 2026 Federal Register notice, a certificate of non-existence is issued only when USCIS finds no immigration records about the person named. This is the state's side of IRW-117 and IRW-122. Together they would show whether and how often Florida's Attorney General asks USCIS for these certificates or for immigration files, and on what terms.
Processing 4 business days since filing (7 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 Check after Nov 16, 2026: if you are reading later than that, these figures may be out of date.

These figures are more than 30 days old. They may not reflect what has happened since Oct 17, 2026.

The law and its timing
Filed under Florida's public records law (Article I, section 24 of the Florida Constitution; chapter 119, Florida Statutes). Florida's public records law sets no fixed number of days. It requires the records custodian to acknowledge a request promptly and respond in good faith (section 119.07(1)(c), Florida Statutes). This site counts every request the same way, in business days from filing, and does not decide whether a deadline was missed.

Timeline

  1. FiledOct 10, 2026
  2. Acknowledged by Florida Attorney GeneralOct 12, 2026
  3. Final responseNot yet received