RIVEROS CORP NETWORK | Apostille de la Haya · Notary Public Center · Compliance Officers · USJurisdiction
RIVEROS CORP NETWORK | Apostille de la Haya · Notary Public Center · Compliance Officers · USJurisdiction
We prepare your USCIS FOIA request, the identity verification it needs and the follow-up until USCIS answers. Miami office, English and Spanish, and everything can be handled remotely.
Since January 22, 2026, USCIS takes these requests only through its FIRST portal.
The statute’s deadline is to decide, not to deliver the file.
USCIS requires a separate request for each person, even relatives.
USCIS verifies your identity with your signature, not fingerprints.
A USCIS FOIA request asks USCIS for a copy of a person’s immigration file, the A-file. USCIS is the agency that keeps it.
Since April 1, 1944, the A-file has been the official file for each person’s immigration and naturalization records. It holds the forms and supporting documents from immigration benefit cases: family petitions, adjustment of status, naturalization and others.
Since January 22, 2026, USCIS takes these requests only online, through its FIRST portal, with a USCIS account.
The court date is set and the A-file is not in hand.
A green card, naturalization or family petition case where nobody kept copies.
FIRST requires a USCIS account, and the instructions are in English.
One request will not cover the whole family.
A grandparent's record may not go through FOIA at all.
What we do: We use USCIS's priority track and attach the court document that supports it.
What we do: The A-file holds the forms and documents of past benefit cases; we request it with the identity verification the rules require.
What we do: We prepare the request and walk them through filing it from their own USCIS account, as the requester who signs it.
What we do: USCIS requires a separate request for each person, even relatives: we prepare one for each.
What we do: We tell you whether it goes through FOIA, the USCIS Genealogy Program or the National Archives.
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By WhatsApp, phone, email or at the office.
A-number, receipt numbers, names used, dates of birth and entry.
A clear description of the records, so the search is precise.
For your own file, USCIS needs your full name, current address, date and place of birth and country of citizenship or residence, with a signature that is notarized or made under penalty of perjury.
We walk you through the account and the filing, and you get the control number.
You hear from us at each step and when USCIS responds.
If you decide to, we prepare the administrative appeal on time.
Your request is processed under… The Privacy Act, which gives a right of access to records about yourself.
Your request is processed under… FOIA.
For an A-file the request looks the same; what changes is the legal basis cited. We cite the right one.
USCIS has a track to deliver the A-file sooner when the person has a scheduled hearing before an immigration judge. It requires a copy of one of the qualifying court documents, such as the notice to appear.
If the case is in court, the court record is kept by a different agency, the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR).
A FOIA request must reasonably describe the records sought. For an A-file, that means giving USCIS what it uses to locate files:
Deadline. The statute gives USCIS 20 working days to decide on the request, extendable by up to 10 working days in unusual circumstances. It is a decision deadline, not a delivery date.
Fees. Requesters who are not seeking records for commercial use are not charged for the first two hours of search or the first 100 pages of duplication. Our fee is separate.
Redactions. Parts of an A-file can be withheld under the statute’s exemptions, such as personal privacy of third parties. USCIS must still release the reasonably segregable portion and indicate the amount deleted and the exemption applied. You have at least 90 days to appeal an adverse response.
175 SW 7th ST, Suite 1905. Come in, or do everything remotely.
For families where the person on the file reads Spanish.
If you also need CBP or immigration court records, we request each from its agency at the same time.
If all you need is the I-94, we say so before anything is filed.
Riveros Corp was founded by Zulma E. Bourelly, a Florida Notary Public, County Court Mediator and ACAMS-certified CAMS.
Paralegals, consultants and law firms can hand us A-file requests for their clients. The request clearly names the client it is made for. When the file is the client’s, it carries their signed authorization, notarized or under penalty of perjury. And each person needs a separate request.
It is each person’s official immigration file, with the forms and supporting documents of their immigration benefit cases. USCIS keeps it.
No. Any person, U.S. citizen or not, can make a FOIA request. If you are neither a citizen nor a permanent resident, yours is processed under FOIA rather than the Privacy Act.
No. Since January 22, 2026, USCIS takes requests only online, through FIRST.
No. DHS says it may be useful, but the request is made in the portal.
The agency has 20 working days to decide, extendable by 10 working days in unusual circumstances. That deadline is for the decision, not the release, and we cannot promise when USCIS will answer.
Yes, with a separate request for each person. With each person’s signed authorization, you get greater access.
USCIS delivers the A-file sooner if you attach a copy of the court document that shows the scheduled hearing.
No. USCIS verifies identity through your signature, notarized or under penalty of perjury.
From CBP’s I-94 website, without a FOIA request.
Yes. The request is filed online, through USCIS’s FIRST portal.
Message us on WhatsApp, call +1 305 647 3000 or visit our Miami office. We’ll tell you what your USCIS request needs.
Email: [email protected] · 175 SW 7th ST, Suite 1905, Miami FL 33130
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