This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JRB.2ACE/1619.1 Message Board Post: It varies by how much information you give and how accurate the information is. Under FOIA, the agency has 5 business days within which to acknowledge your request. That acknowledgement may range from the actual info to telling you that they have a tremendous backlog and it might take 6-8 months to search and retrieve the file.