The mission of the USCIS Office of Privacy is to protect individuals by embedding and enforcing privacy protections and transparency in all USCIS activities.

The Office of Privacy:

• Evaluates USCIS legislative and regulatory proposals involving collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information (PII);
• Provides privacy policy and programmatic oversight and supports implementation across USCIS;
• Evaluates USCIS programs, systems and operations to identify privacy sensitivities; recommends mitigation strategies to reduce potential privacy impacts; and provides guidance and global assistance to USCIS program offices and directorates in meeting such requirements;
• Operates a USCIS-wide Privacy Incident Response Program to ensure that incidents involving PII are properly reported, investigated and mitigated;
• Responds to and addresses complaints of privacy violations;
• Provides privacy training, education and outreach;
• Provides advice and technical assistance to leadership and management to ensure privacy protections are implemented throughout USCIS programs, systems, processes and operations; and
• Ensures USCIS’ adherence to federal, regulatory, statutory, departmental and component privacy requirements, mandates, directives and policy.

• DHS USCIS Published SORNs
• DHS USCIS Published PIAs
• DHS-Office of Privacy
• Privacy Updates