Department of Prior Conclusions

Request for Correction to a Completed Event

HAEB Form 88-C, Rev. 1908/1963 ACCEPTED FOR FILING CAP Rev. 12.4

Issuing office

Department of Prior Conclusions

Governing directive

HAEB Directive 14.6
This directive is in force and is not published. Its provisions are available through the office that applies them.

Estimated public burden

26 minutes, excluding the time required to determine the date on which this request was decided

Control number

HAEB 0088-C, ISSUED 1963, EFFECTIVE 1908

Expiration

Upon receipt. The decision under Part B is effective upon issuance, which has occurred

Published

June 29, 2026

Purpose

Use Form 88-C to request administrative review of a completed event’s approved occurrence, date, sequence, participants, or wording.

The Department of Prior Conclusions reviews evidence against decisions that have already been made. Consistency between the evidence reviewed and the decisions reviewed is 100 percent, and has been since the Department was established.

This form has two parts. Part A is completed by the requester. Part B is completed by the Department. Part B is printed below and does not require your signature.

Who must file

File if:

1. A completed event is recorded in the Official Record with a date, sequence, participant, or wording you believe to be incorrect.
2. Two entries in the Official Record describe the same completed event differently.
3. An entry in the Official Record describes an event as complete that you believe is continuing.
4. An entry describes an event as continuing that you believe is complete.
5. A prior request of yours was decided and you wish the decision recorded again.
6. You are directed to file by any Bureau office.

Who must not file

Do not file if:

1. Your concern is that you remember the event differently. That is a variance and is reported on HAEB Form 22-R.
2. Your concern is an object. Objects are declared on HAEB Form 17-B.
3. The event has not completed. The Office of Future Non-Jurisdiction declines jurisdiction over events that have not completed and returns the request.
4. The event was never certified. An uncertified event is corrected by certification. Use HAEB Form 1-A.
5. You are requesting that an event be removed from the Official Record. Removal is not a correction and is not requested on a form.
6. You have already received the decision at Part B and are satisfied with it.

Filing deadline

1. Within 30 days after the event is completed.
2. Or within 30 days before the decision is issued.
3. Or within 30 days of the publication of the edition of this form under which the event was certified, which for events completed before 1908 is the 1908 edition.
4. The decision has been issued.

Definitions

Completed event. An event certified under the Current Approved Past as having concluded.

Prior conclusion. A determination already issued by the Department. A prior conclusion is not evidence and cannot be contradicted by evidence, because evidence is reviewed against it.

Correction. An adjustment to the wording, date, sequence, or participants of a completed event. A correction does not adjust the event.

Standing. The condition of having been affected by the event you are asking to correct.

Consideration. The Department’s act of having a request before it. A conclusion is recorded as having been considered when a request concerning it is received. This form is the record of that consideration.

Denial without prejudice. A denial that does not prejudice any denial previously issued.

Part A. Completed by the requester

Section 1: Requester

Field 2 is required. A requester who does not hold this date may copy it from Part B.

Do not enter a legal name, address, date of birth, telephone number, government identification number, financial account, or password. The Bureau does not request them and cannot use them.

Section 2: The completed event

A requester who experienced the event under more than one revision must file a separate request for each revision, in the order the revisions were issued.

Section 3: Basis

Evidence that was available when the conclusion was issued has been considered. Evidence that was not available when the conclusion was issued is outside the scope of the conclusion.

Section 4: Standing

A requester whose standing is removed by the correction requested is recorded as having withdrawn the request. The withdrawal takes effect when the correction does. The correction is not applied.

Section 5: Prior requests

Section 6: Attestation

Part B. Completed by the Department of Prior Conclusions

Do not alter Part B. Part B is printed with the form and is not affected by the contents of Part A.

Decision text:

Your appeal has been denied without prejudice to the denial previously issued. You may appeal this outcome to the Department of Prior Conclusions within 30 days before receipt.

Denied without prejudice

Consequence of filing

1. There is no penalty for filing.
2. A request that is denied may be filed again. A request filed again is decided in the same manner, by the same instrument, on the same page.
3. A completed event remains complete during review, after review, and in the absence of review.
4. Requests received under this form: 2,911. Conclusions reviewed: 2,911. Conclusions changed: 0.
5. The figures in item 4 are published annually and have not required revision.

Privacy and records notice

HAEB is fictional and this form is satire. Nothing you type into this site is transmitted anywhere. No field on this page is submitted, stored, indexed, or read by any person or system.

This form does not request a legal name, an address, a date of birth, a telephone number, an employer, a government identification number, a financial account, or a password. Do not enter any of them. A real collection of this kind would have no use for them either.

Within the fiction, a submitted request becomes part of the Prior Conclusions System of Records and is retained as evidence that the conclusion it concerns was considered.

Estimated completion burden

26 minutes, excluding the time required to determine the date on which this request was decided.

Revision history

1. Rev. 1908. Original edition. Issued under an authority then pending.
2. Rev. 1908, second printing. Part A retitled. Previously titled Notice of Intent to Have Requested.
3. Rev. 1963. Part B added. Requesters are no longer required to await a decision.
4. Rev. 1963, corrected. The word proposed removed from the heading of Part B.
5. This edition remains Rev. 1908/1963. The 1908 edition governs events completed before 1908.

Filing instructions

1. Read Part B before completing Part A. Part A is easier to complete once the outcome is known.
2. Complete field 2 first.
3. Do not attach evidence. Evidence submitted with a request is returned unreviewed and recorded as reviewed.
4. Submit one request for each element listed in field 6.
5. Retain one copy of Part A. Part B does not require retention, as it is reprinted with every edition.
6. Do not request correction of Part B.

Section 7: Example

The following specimen is provided for guidance and requests no actual correction.

Department action on the specimen: prior conclusion affirmed, request denied without prejudice, matter recorded as considered. See HAEB-1582-SKIP.

The specimen requester filed again in the following period, which was available.