U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Washington, DC 20528

Homeland
Security
Privacy Office, Mail Stop 0655

January 3, 2020
SENT VIA E-MAIL TO: foia@americanoversight.org
Austin Evers
American Oversight
1030 15th Street, NW
Suite B255
Washington, DC 20005
Re: 2020-HQFO-00324
Dear Mr. Evers:
This is the final response to your Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the Department
of Homeland Security (DHS), dated November 8, 2019, and received by this office on December
12, 2019.
You are seeking all email communications (including email messages, complete email chains,
email attachments, calendar invitations, and attachments thereto) between (a) Stephen Miller
(stephen.miller@who.eop.gov; Robert Gabriel robert.gabriel@who.eop.gov), Jennifer Cytryn
(jennifer.cytryn@who.eop.gov), McLaurine Klingler mclaurine.klingler@who.eop.gov) and (b)
Ken Cuccinelli, Acting USCIS Director; L. Francis Cissna, former USCIS Director; Craig
Symons, former Chief Counsel; anyone serving in the limited to the email address capacity of
Chief Counsel; Jennifer Higgins, Associate Director for Refugee, Asylum, and International
Operations; John Lafferty, Asylum Division; Robert Law, Senior Policy Advisor; Kathy Nuebel
Kovarik, Chief of the Office of Policy and Strategy; Kaitlin Vogt Stoddard, former Advisor and
Deputy Chief of Staff; John Zadrozny; and anyone serving in the capacity of White House
Liaison or Advisor.
We conducted a comprehensive search of files within the Department of Homeland Security,
Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) for records that would be responsive to your
request. Unfortunately, we were unable to locate or identify any responsive records.
While an adequate search was conducted, you have the right to appeal this determination that no
records exist within Department of Homeland Security, Office of the Chief Information Officer
(OCIO) that would be responsive to your request. Should you wish to do so, you must send your
appeal and a copy of this letter, within 90 days of the date of this letter, to: Privacy Office, Attn:
FOIA Appeals, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, 245 Murray Lane, SW, Mail Stop 0655,
Washington, D.C. 20528-0655, following the procedures outlined in the DHS FOIA regulations

 at 6 C.F.R. Part 5 § 5.8. Your envelope and letter should be marked “FOIA Appeal.” Copies of
the FOIA and DHS FOIA regulations are available at www.dhs.gov/foia.
If you need any further assistance or would like to discuss any aspect of your request, please
contact the analyst below who processed your request and refer to 2020-HQFO-00324.
You may send an e-mail to foia@hq.dhs.gov, call 202-343-1743 or toll free 1-866-431-0486, or
you may contact our FOIA Public Liaison in the same manner. Additionally, you have a right to
right to seek dispute resolution services from the Office of Government Information Services
(OGIS) which mediates disputes between FOIA requesters and Federal agencies as a nonexclusive alternative to litigation. If you are requesting access to your own records (which is
considered a Privacy Act request), you should know that OGIS does not have the authority to
handle requests made under the Privacy Act of 1974. You may contact OGIS as follows: Office
of Government Information Services, National Archives and Records Administration, 8601
Adelphi Road-OGIS, College Park, Maryland 20740-6001, e-mail at ogis@nara.gov; telephone
at 202-741-5770; toll free at 1-877-684-6448; or facsimile at 202-741-5769.
Provisions of FOIA allow DHS to charge for processing fees, up to $25, unless you seek a
waiver of fees. In this instance, because the cost is below the $25 minimum, there is no charge.
Sincerely,

James Holzer
Deputy Chief Privacy Officer (A)
Deputy Chief FOIA Officer