Legal Opinion
Rubman v. United States Citizenship & Immigration Services
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 31, 2015No. 14-3733PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SYKES, Circuit Judge.
H-1B visas allow U.S. companies to hire noncitizen workers with specialized skills. The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (“CIS”), an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”), is responsible for their issuance. David Rubman sent CIS a request under the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) seeking “copies of all documents reflecting statistics ... about H-1B visa applications” from the last four years. CIS responded with a single document: a data table that the agency had created to respond to his request. Rubman doubted the table’s…
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