Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2018)

[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 195 (Tuesday, October 9, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50672-50673]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-21780]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

[Docket No. DHS-2018-0030]

Privacy Act of 1974; Computer Matching Program

AGENCY: U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), Department
of Homeland Security (DHS).

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ACTION: Notice of a Re-established Matching Program.

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SUMMARY: As required by the Privacy Act of 1974, as amended, DHS/USCIS
is issuing public notice of the re-establishment of a computer matching
program between DHS, USCIS and the California Department of Social
Services (CA-DSS), titled ``Verification Division DHS-USCIS/CA-DSS.''

DATES: This re-established matching program will commence not sooner
than 30 days after publication of this notice, provided no comments are
received that warrant a change to this notice. This matching program
will be conducted for an initial term of 18 months (from approximately
October 2018 to April 2020) and within 3 months of expiration may be
renewed for one additional year if the parties make no substantive
change to the matching program and certify that the program has been
conducted in compliance with the matching agreement.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, identified by docket number DHS-
2018-0030, at:
Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Please follow the instructions for submitting comments.
Mail and Hand Delivery or Commercial Delivery: U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services, ATTN: Privacy Officer--Donald K.
Hawkins, 20 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20529.
Instructions: All submissions received must include the words
``Department of Homeland Security'' and docket number DHS-2018-0030.
All comments received will be posted without change to http://www.regulations.gov, including any personal information provided.
Docket: For access to the docket to read background documents or
comments received, go to http://www.regulations.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: DHS Privacy Office Chief Privacy
Officer Sam Kaplan at 202-343-1717.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DHS-USCIS provides this notice in
accordance with the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended by
the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100-
503) and the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Amendments of
1990 (Pub. L. 101-508) (Privacy Act); Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) Final Guidance Interpreting the Provisions of Public Law 100-503,
the Computer Matching and Privacy Protection Act of 1988, 54 FR 25818
(June 19, 1989); and OMB Circular A-108, 81 FR 94424 (December 23,
2016).
Participating Agencies: The Department of Homeland Security, U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services (DHS-USCIS) is the source agency
and the California Department of Social Services (CA-DSS) is the
recipient agency.
Authority for Conducting the Matching Program: Section 121 of the
Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1986, Public Law 99-603,
as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity
Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), Public Law 104-193, 110 Stat. 2168
(1996), requires DHS to establish a system for the verification of
immigration status of alien applicants for, or recipients of, certain
types of benefits as specified within IRCA, and to make this system
available to state agencies that administer such benefits. Section
121(c) of IRCA amends Section 1137 of the Social Security Act and
certain other sections of law that pertain to federal entitlement
benefit programs. Section 121(c) requires state agencies administering
these programs to use DHS-USCIS's verification system to make
eligibility determinations in order to prevent the issuance of benefits
to ineligible alien applicants. The Verification Information System
(VIS) used by the DHS/USCIS Systematic Alien Verification for
Entitlements (SAVE) Program is the DHS-USCIS system available to the
CA-DSS and other covered agencies for use in making these eligibility
determinations.
The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of
1996 (IIRIRA), Public Law 104-208, 110 Stat. 3009 (1996) grants
federal, state, or local government agencies seeking to verify or
ascertain the citizenship or immigration status of any individual
within the jurisdiction of the agency with the authority to request
such information from DHS-USCIS for any purpose authorized by law.
CA-DSS will access information contained in the VIS as part of the
SAVE Program for the purpose of confirming the immigration status of
alien applicants for, or recipients of, benefits it administers to
discharge its obligation to conduct such verifications pursuant to
Section 1137 of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 1320b-7(a) et seq.)
and California Welfare and Institution Codes 11104.1, 14007.5 and
14011.2.
Purpose(s): To provide the CA-DSS with electronic access to
immigration status information from federal immigration records
contained within the DHS-USCIS VIS and covered by the SAVE Program. CA-
DSS will use the SAVE Program VIS to verify the immigration status of
non-U.S. citizens who apply for federal benefits (Benefit Applicants)
under Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) and Supplemental
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) programs that it administers. CA-
DSS will use the information obtained through the SAVE Program to
determine whether benefit applicants possess the requisite immigration
status to be eligible for the TANF and SNAP programs administered by
CA-DSS.
Categories of Individuals: DHS-USCIS will provide the following to
CA-DSS: Records in DHS-USCIS VIS and SAVE Program containing
information related to the status of aliens and other persons on whom
DHS-USCIS has a record as an applicant, petitioner, or beneficiary.
CA-DSS will provide the following to DHS-USCIS: CA-DSS records
pertaining to alien and naturalized/derived United States citizen
applicants for, or recipients of, entitlement benefit programs
administered by the State.
Categories of Records: CA-DSS will match the following records with
DHS-USCIS records:

Alien Registration Number (A-Number)
I-94 Number
Last Name
First Name
Middle Name
Date of Birth
Nationality
Social Security Number (SSN)

DHS-USCIS will match the following records with CA-DSS records:

A-Number
I-94 Number
Last Name
First Name
Middle Name
Date of Birth
Country of Birth (not nationality)
SSN (if available)
Date of Entry
Immigration Status Data
Sponsorship Information (sponsor's full name, SSN, and
address)

System of Records: DHS/USCIS-004 Systematic Alien Verification for
Entitlements (SAVE) Systems of Records Notice, 81 FR 78619 (Nov. 8,
2016).

Philip S. Kaplan,
Chief Privacy Officer, Department of Homeland Security.
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