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RIVEROS CORP NETWORK | Apostille de la Haya · Notary Public Center · Compliance Officers · USJurisdiction
We prepare and file your FBI FOIA request under the Freedom of Information Act or the Privacy Act, with the identity verification the FBI asks for, and track it to a response. First, we confirm whether this is what you need, or whether you need an FBI background check, which is a separate process.
FOIPA is the FBI’s name for requests made under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and the Privacy Act. The Bureau’s records generally include investigative files, personnel files and policy guides, and most are indexed in its Central Records System.
Anything the FBI has already released sits in The Vault, its online reading room. For everything else, you file a FOIPA request by mail or through the eFOIPA portal.
An Identity History Summary, often called a rap sheet or FBI background check, is a listing of information taken from fingerprint submissions the FBI keeps in connection with arrests and, in some cases, federal employment, naturalization or military service. It is not requested through FOIA: the FBI asks people not to send those requests to its FOIPA office, but to its CJIS Division. It requires a set of fingerprints.
| FOIPA request | Identity History Summary | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | FBI files that mention a person | The record tied to your fingerprints |
| Who handles it at the FBI | The FOIPA office (RIDS) | CJIS Division |
| Fingerprints? | No | Yes |
Our Miami office is licensed to process FBI background checks. If that is what you need, we will tell you from the first message.
You don't know where to start.
And it's not clear whether that means a file or a background check.
You don't know what has to go with the request.
Nobody has confirmed the request is being processed.
You don't know whether anything can be done.
What we do: We file through eFOIPA, with your identity verification.
What we do: We confirm whether you need FOIPA or a background check, which is a separate process.
What we do: Proof of death goes with the request.
What we do: The request is not valid until you complete the step the FBI sends by email. We do it with you.
What we do: We review the exemptions cited and, if you decide to, prepare the appeal.
By WhatsApp, phone, email or at the office.
FOIPA or a background check.
If what you want is already published there, there is nothing to request.
Your details and a notarized signature or a statement under penalty of perjury.
Through eFOIPA, the FBI's portal, which requires a valid email address for authentication, or on paper.
You hear from us at each step and when the FBI responds.
If you decide to, we prepare the administrative appeal on time.
The FBI handles requests in the order received, in five processing tracks based on the number of responsive pages, from 50 pages or fewer up to 5,000 or more. The statute gives the agency 20 working days to decide, extendable by up to 10 working days; that deadline covers the decision, not the release. We cannot promise when the FBI will respond.
Some of the FBI’s earliest records were never indexed, and some have moved to the National Archives (NARA). A “no records” answer does not always mean nothing exists.
The Privacy Act gives access to your own records only to U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents. If you are neither, a request about yourself is processed under FOIA instead. The eFOIPA portal takes both kinds of request, and we state the right basis in each one.
The statute lets an agency withhold, among other things, information whose release would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of someone’s personal privacy, and law-enforcement records where release would cause one of the specific harms the statute lists, such as revealing a confidential source. Whatever can be reasonably separated from the exempt material must still be released, and the FBI must indicate how much was deleted and which exemption applies, unless doing so would harm the interest that exemption protects. If you disagree, you can appeal, and we prepare the appeal.
Non-commercial requesters are not charged for the first two hours of search or the first 100 pages of duplication. Our own fee is separate from anything the FBI charges.
175 SW 7th ST, Suite 1905. Come in, or do everything remotely.
For families and clients who prefer to work in Spanish.
We tell you whether you need FOIPA or a background check, so you don't wait on the wrong one.
If that other process is what you need, we handle it too.
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 these requests. The request clearly names the client it is made for. Records about another living person go with that person’s notarized authorization or statement under penalty of perjury; for a deceased person, proof of death.
The FBI’s name for requests it receives under FOIA and the Privacy Act.
No. A background check (Identity History Summary) is a separate process, handled by the CJIS Division, and it requires fingerprints.
Not for a FOIPA request. The regulation does not ask for them.
The FBI’s page asks you to use it, though the regulation does not require a specific form. We prepare it with you.
It depends on the number of pages: the FBI has five processing tracks. We cannot promise when it will respond.
If they are alive, their written consent is usually needed. If they have died, proof of death.
We review the response with you. Some early records were never indexed, and others are at the National Archives.
Yes. FOIA is open to any person except fugitives, federal agencies and foreign intelligence agencies.
A request about yourself is processed under FOIA instead of the Privacy Act. We file it the same way.
Yes. What the FBI has already released is in The Vault; if what you want is there, there is nothing to request.
You can appeal. At the Justice Department, which the FBI is part of, you have 90 calendar days from the response.
Message us on WhatsApp, call +1 305 647 3000 or visit our Miami office. We’ll tell you whether you need FOIPA or a background check, and how to request it.
Email: [email protected] · 175 SW 7th ST, Suite 1905, Miami FL 33130
how FOIA works and which agency holds which record.
when a response comes back denied or redacted.
