Class Certified In Suit Over Access To Alien Registration Files

Mealey's (October 31, 2019, 12:01 PM EDT) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A class of immigration attorneys and noncitizens suing over the federal government’s alleged “systemic failure of making timely determinations” on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for alien registration files (A-Files) was certified Oct. 15 by a California federal judge, who found that “a single injunction or declaratory judgment would provide relief to each member of the proposed classes” (Zachary Nightingale, et al. v. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, et al., No. 19-3512, N.D. Calif., 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 178516)....