The Paperless USCIS
Saturday, March 14th, 2009Posted on Immigration Daily 3/13/09
The Federal Times reports that USCIS is spending over half a billion dollars to digitize its paper files so that it can process immigration applications over the internet instead of through US postal service. “The agency signed a five-year contract with IBM in November; the company will be the lead systems integrator on the project. It’s tasked with digitizing the agency’s processing system, which currently relies on some 70 million paper files scattered at hundreds of locations across the country.” The IBM contract – the latest in a series of modernization projects at the agency – could eventually shave months off processing times.
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