Grade A+ — Highly protective (score 100/100)
USCIS maintains a highly protective privacy policy that explicitly prohibits the sale of personal data and limits information collection to necessary administrative purposes.
Government privacy policy with no commercial data sale or tracking.
We never create individual profiles or give your PII to any private organizations.
The agency does not build behavioral profiles or share your personal information with private companies.
DHS gathers this information to improve our websites and has chosen to not share the aggregate data with Google.
While Google Analytics is used, the agency does not share the resulting data with Google for their own use.
DHS will not transmit or store any PII collected by the third-party website; no PII will be disclosed, sold or transferred to any other entity outside DHs, unless required for law enforcement purposes or by statute.
Your personal information is protected from sale or unauthorized transfer to third parties.
Electronic mail messages that meet the definition of records in the Federal Records Act (44 U.S.C. § 3101) are covered under the same disposition schedule as all other federal records. This means that emails you send us will be preserved and maintained for varying periods of time.
Emails sent to the agency are treated as official government records and are subject to mandatory retention schedules.
Last reviewed 2026-08-05 under rubric v3.5.