FOIA deadlines

Administrative stage

• Agency final response to request: 20 business days; 30 business days if "unusual circumstances" exist

• Agency appeal determination: 20 business days; 30 business days if "unusual circumstances" exist

• Agency response to request for expedition: 10 calendar days

• Agency appeal determination re: expedition: "expeditious consideration"

• Agency acknowledgment of request: if final determination will take "longer than ten days"

• Requester appeal deadline: 90 calendar days

Litigation

• Requester/plaintiff lawsuit: "six years after the right of action first accrues"

• Agency Answer to Complaint: 30 days

Last updated July 7, 2016