Designate USCIS as Intelligence Community-adjacent with database access

What has happened

1. Sep 25, 2026 Partially done

   The Supreme Court stayed the vacatur, and the SAVE overhaul is back in force pending appeal. In *Department of Homeland Security v. League of Women Voters*, No. 26A308, the Court granted the application per curiam, finding the plaintiffs likely have standing but their claims likely lack merit: 8 U.S.C. 1373 "necessarily authorized DHS to request and receive" citizenship information "notwithstanding any other provision" of law, and "likely supersedes restrictions on disclosure elsewhere in the Code". The ground of the 2025-04-22 event, law-enforcement records inside the system USCIS runs, is operative again, so the item returns to `partial` on that limb. The intelligence limb is unchanged: no designation has been made.

   • Department of Homeland Security v. League of Women Voters, No. 26A308, 609 U.S. ___ (Sept. 25, 2026) (per curiam): application for a stay granted

     Primary Courts Sep 25, 2026

2. Jun 22, 2026 Blocked

   The District of Columbia vacated the SAVE overhaul this item's `partial` rests on. In *League of Women Voters v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security*, No. 25-cv-3501 (SLS), the court granted summary judgment for the plaintiffs, holding that the modified system violated the Social Security Act's confidentiality provision, the Privacy Act and the APA, and "sets aside and vacates the SAVE 'modified system' described in the 2025 DHS SORN" (90 Fed. Reg. 48,948) together with the DHS and SSA system-of-records notices, restoring the status quo before May 2025. The vacatur reaches the whole modified system, not one use of it, so the rebuilt SAVE that the 2025-04-22 event counts as the law-enforcement data limb was set aside. On 2026-09-04 a divided D.C. Circuit panel (Katsas, J., dissenting) denied a stay pending appeal, so the vacatur stayed in force.

   • Memorandum Opinion, League of Women Voters v. U.S. Dep't of Homeland Security, No. 25-cv-3501 (SLS) (D.D.C. June 22, 2026): the SAVE modified system and the 2025 DHS and SSA SORNs set aside and vacated

     Primary Courts Jun 22, 2026

   • Order, League of Women Voters v. DHS, No. 26-5243 (D.C. Cir. Sept. 4, 2026): the government's motion for a stay pending appeal denied, Katsas, J., dissenting

     Primary Courts Sep 4, 2026

3. Apr 22, 2025 Partially done

   DHS, USCIS and DOGE announced a rebuild of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system as "a single, reliable source for verifying non-citizen status nationwide" that "integrates criminal records, immigration timelines, and addresses", removes fees and supports mass status checks. The law-enforcement data limb of the Quote is being delivered: criminal records are now inside the system USCIS runs. The intelligence limb is not - no designation of USCIS as Intelligence Community-adjacent has been made, USCIS is not an Intelligence Community element under 50 U.S.C. 3003(4), and nothing published gives it access to national security databases.

   • DHS: DHS, USCIS and DOGE overhaul the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database

     Primary Executive branch Apr 22, 2025