Re-entry to the USA 6 years after a 5-year ban (deportation)?

4/23/2018 8:46:56 PM

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services provides specific information on how to file an FOIA request relating to an alien file.

Unless otherwise noted below, mail or fax all requests to USCIS
records, including alien files and procurement information, to the
National Records Center.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
National Records Center, FOIA/PA Office
P.O. Box 648010
Lee’s Summit, MO 64064-8010

USCIS Contact Center: 800-375-5283 or TTY 800-767-1833
Fax: 802-288-1793 or 816-350-5785
[email protected]

It also provides a lengthy PDF file with specific guidance.

Note in particular the detailed explanation around proving your identity: the fast and cheap option seems to be to write and sign a document giving your full name, current address, date and place of birth, alien registration number if known, and declaration under penalty of perjury; and then to scan it and send it by e-mail.

Note also the fee schedule: you will be charged, although if the fees exceed $25 (which looks unlikely for a simple request: the more specific you can be about the document you require, the better) you will be told how much they will be and can choose whether to accept them or not.

4/22/2018 12:07:19 PM

File a FOIA request for your deportation records either yourself or through an attorney (and don’t throw them away again).

Not all deportation and exclusion records survive. If, however, the event occurred after 1892 there is a chance records may still exist.

Deportation is the removal of an alien already in the United States
Exclusion is the refusal of admission by a Board of Special Inquiry

On April 1, 1944, the INS began filing all enforcement paperwork in Alien Files(or A-files), single files that included all records of a specific alien. If a researcher believes the deportation took place in April 1944 or later he or she can obtain an A-file number by:

Submit a USCIS FOIA/PA Request

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