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 and file your EOIR FOIA request for the immigration court record and your ICE FOIA request for detention and removal records, each with the identity verification that agency requires. Miami office, English and Spanish, and everything can be handled remotely.
The Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), part of the Department of Justice, keeps the records of proceedings (ROPs) of the immigration courts. While a case is pending at the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the ROP is kept there; once the BIA is done, it goes back to the immigration court.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) keeps deportation and removal records in its custody, and detention and detention facility records.
They are two agencies with two portals. EOIR recommends its Public Access Link (PAL) and also accepts FOIA.gov. ICE takes requests online through SecureRelease.
The prior representative kept the file, or never had all of it.
The family needs to know what ICE holds and how to ask for it.
Usually over the identity certification.
The person received them years ago and kept no copies.
The written record is not enough; the hearing recording is needed too.
What we do: We request it from EOIR through PAL, or point to EOIR's direct ROP request for parties and their representatives of record.
What we do: We file the ICE request through SecureRelease with the relative's handwritten consent.
What we do: We prepare the identity certification with a handwritten signature, as ICE requires.
What we do: Official copies sit in the A-file, which USCIS keeps: we request them there.
What we do: EOIR's direct request to the court or the BIA can include the audio (DAR).
By WhatsApp, phone, email or at the office.
Court record to EOIR; detention and removal to ICE.
A-number, immigration court, hearing or detention dates.
For EOIR, the DOJ-361 it recommends, or your details with a notarized signature or one under penalty of perjury. For ICE, the identity certification with a handwritten signature.
EOIR through PAL or FOIA.gov; ICE through SecureRelease or FOIA.gov. You get both tracking numbers.
You hear from us at each step and when each agency responds.
If you decide to, we prepare the administrative appeal on time.
EOIR provides a service, outside the FOIA process, for respondents and their representatives of record to request a copy of their official record of proceedings. That request goes directly to the immigration court or the BIA and can include the hearing audio (DAR).
If you are a party to the case, we explain that route before filing anything. If you are not, or you need records that are not in the ROP, a FOIA request to EOIR is the way.
EOIR:
ICE:
Fingerprints: neither agency asks for them in a FOIA request.
EOIR places each FOIA request in one of three processing tracks. The statute gives the agency 20 working days to decide, extendable by up to 10 working days in unusual circumstances; the deadline covers the decision, not the release.
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 any agency charge.
The more precisely a request identifies the person and the case, the easier it is for the agency to search. Before filing, we gather what you have:
You do not need every item. We file with what exists and say so in the request.
Part of a detention or removal file may be withheld. The statute lets an agency withhold material whose release would be a clearly unwarranted invasion of someone’s privacy, and law-enforcement material only where release would cause one of the specific harms the statute lists. Whatever is left once the exempt lines are removed must still be released. If you want to challenge a redaction, we prepare the administrative appeal.
175 SW 7th ST, Suite 1905. Come in, or do everything remotely.
For families where the person in proceedings prefers Spanish.
EOIR and ICE in parallel, with each tracking number under control.
ICE-issued forms live in the A-file: we request it through USCIS FOIA requests.
Riveros Corp was founded by Zulma E. Bourelly, a Florida Notary Public, County Court Mediator and ACAMS-certified CAMS.
Paralegals and law firms can hand us these requests. The request clearly names the client it is made for. EOIR recommends that the subject sign Form EOIR-59, and ICE asks for the subject’s consent with a handwritten signature, notarized or under penalty of perjury. For the court record itself, the representative of record also has EOIR’s direct ROP request outside FOIA.
It is the immigration court’s file for the case. The BIA keeps it while the case is pending there, then it goes back to the court.
If you are a party or the representative of record, EOIR offers a direct request, outside FOIA, for the ROP and audio. Otherwise, FOIA.
It recommends Form DOJ-361. Your details with a notarized signature or one under penalty of perjury also work.
No. ICE asks for the identity certification with a handwritten signature.
In the A-file, which USCIS keeps.
Only if you are detained or incarcerated. Otherwise ICE takes requests online, through SecureRelease.
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 either agency will answer.
Yes, with their authorization: EOIR recommends Form EOIR-59, and ICE asks for a handwritten consent.
No. Both agencies verify identity through a signature, notarized or under penalty of perjury.
The statute lets the agency withhold certain privacy and law-enforcement material. It must still release whatever is not exempt.
Yes: through EOIR’s Public Access Link, the route it recommends, or FOIA.gov.
No. We request your records. Representation before the immigration court is a matter for a licensed attorney.
Message us on WhatsApp, call +1 305 647 3000 or visit our Miami office. We’ll tell you which agency holds what you need and what each request takes.
Email: [email protected] · 175 SW 7th ST, Suite 1905, Miami FL 33130
how FOIA works and which agency holds which record.
your immigration file (A-file).
border entry, exit and inspection records.
when a response comes back denied or redacted.
