Read Your Own DHS Travel Dossier

[Holly_Hobby]

The Department of Homeland Security already knows everything about your travel. Now, for the first time, The Identity Project makes it easy for you to request the unclassified parts of the dossier that the DHS has complied on you.

Warning: You can only request records on behalf of yourself or others with their written explicit permission. There are severe penalties for making requests for records on someone else without their knowledge.

Are you prepared to find out for yourself the outrageous amount of personal information Homeland Security has been vacuuming-up on you? This is how to do it:

1. Download and fill-in the following two documents:
(right-click links below and select "Download Linked File..." or "Save Linked File As..."

No reason need be given for the request. Costs may be charged for photocopying or printing your dossier, but not for the search itself.

2. Sign and date them both. They do not have to be notarized.

3. Make and keep copies of the signed request and all correspondence.

4. Mail them – either by first class mail or (better yet) by registered mail – to the address found on the upper left-hand corner of each of the documents you downloaded. Sending your request via registered mail helps you to prove that they were sent if you have to appeal because your request was not responded to.

http://mparent7777-2.blogspot.com/2007/09/read-your-own-dhs-travel-dossier.html

Forms and FAQ's at link

[stranger81]

1. I wonder if they flag or alert your DHS file for even requesting a copy . . . [n/t]

[Holly_Hobby]

2. No doubt. n/t

[stranger81]

3. fuckers. [n/t]

I'm doing it anyway. Thanks for the link.

[Fed_Up_Grammy]

4. Always use registered-return receipt for this type of thing.

Just my unasked for opinion.

[killbotfactory]

5. And if you don't have your own dossier, they'll be certain to compile one for you

after you make your request.

[LiberalFighter]

6. Or make up a name and other info and let them waste time

doing the search.

Of course, make sure you don't provide your name, address or any other info about yourself. That also means not on the envelope.

[VLC]

7. Did you see the part about needing PERMISSION to travel??

All would-be passengers on international or domestic flights to, from, over, via, or within the U.S. would have to have both government-issued ID credentials and explicit case-by-case prior permission from the DHS to the airline to allow each passenger to board a plane.

from:

http://www.papersplease.org/wp/