[Federal Register Volume 70, Number 135 (Friday, July 15, 2005)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41050-41051]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 05-13964]


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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services


Privacy Act of 1974; Systems of Records; DHS-2005-0048

AGENCY: Department of Homeland Security, United States Citizenship and 
Immigration Services, USCIS.

ACTION: Removal of a Privacy Act system of records.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974, the Department of 
Homeland Security is giving notice that it proposes to remove one 
system of records from its inventory of record systems because the 
functions of the system have been absorbed into another system of 
records.

EFFECTIVE DATES: July 15, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nuala O'Connor Kelly, DHS Chief 
Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security, Washington, DC 20528, 
by telephone (571) 227-3813 or facsimile (517) 227-4171.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant to the provisions of the Privacy 
Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. 552a, and as part of its

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ongoing integration and management efforts, the Department of Homeland 
Security (DHS) is removing a system of records currently being 
maintained by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services 
(USCIS) and formerly maintained by the Immigration and Naturalization 
Service (INS) when it was an agency of the Department of Justice. This 
legacy record system is entitled ``Alien Status Verification Index 
(ASVI), JUSTICE/INS-009.'' ASVI was last published in the Federal 
Register on September 7, 2001 (66 FR 46815). The system became part of 
the DHS inventory of record systems upon creation of DHS and the merger 
with INS.
    ASVI was originally established in order to verify an alien's 
immigrant, nonimmigrant, and/or eligibility status for any purpose 
consistent with DHS/USCIS statutory responsibilities. The record system 
became obsolete in July 2004, because a new modernized system with the 
same capabilities as ASVI was built and added to another USCIS system 
of records, the Verification Information System (VIS), JUSTICE/INS-036 
(last published in the Federal Register on October 17, 2002 (67 FR 
64134)). All data from ASVI currently resides in VIS. Therefore, 
JUSTICE/INS-009, the ``Alien Status Verification Index (ASVI)'' has 
been superseded and the Department of Homeland Security is removing 
this system from its inventory of Privacy Act systems.

    Dated: June 23, 2005.
Nuala O'Connor Kelly,
Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security.
[FR Doc. 05-13964 Filed 7-14-05; 8:45 am]
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