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USCIS · Oversight and reporting · Request IRW-053

Significant incident reports and FY2026 strategic goals

This request asks for the number of Significant Incident Reports (reports of significant incidents) tied to the USCIS FOIA Office for fiscal years 2023 through 2026 to date, with a summary of each incident. It also asks for the fiscal year 2025 compilation of incident reports involving Verification of Identity (proof of identity) that the National Records Center Director relied on in a court declaration in Nightingale v. USCIS (a federal lawsuit over USCIS delays in releasing immigration files). Finally, it asks for every version of the center's fiscal year 2026 strategic goals document, including one circulated around October 30, 2025.

Why it matters
The Director's court declaration relied on these reports. The records would let the public see what that declaration rested on.
ProcessingExtension invoked 27 business days since filing (39 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 Check after Nov 16, 2026: if you are reading later than that, these figures may be out of date.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.

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. FiledSep 8, 2026
  2. Acknowledged by USCISSep 14, 2026
  3. Final responseNot yet received

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Template T-45
Records showing the total number of Significant Incident Reports (SIRs) attributable to the USCIS FOIA Office by fiscal year for FY2023, FY2024, FY2025, and FY2026 to date, together with incident summaries for each; the FY2025 VOI SIRs compilation relied upon in the Sixth Declaration of the National Records Center Director, paragraph 31, in Nightingale v. USCIS, No. 3:19-cv-03512 (N.D. Cal.); and each version of the National Records Center FY2026 strategic goals document, including the version circulated on or about October 30, 2025, showing the treatment of any SIR-reduction or privacy-spill-reduction initiative.
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