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GAOREPORTS
Legislative Agency Publications
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2010-08-12
U.S. Government Printing Office
2006-02-14
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88 p.
GA 1.13:GAO-06-296
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-296
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REPORT
GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-296
GAO-06-296
Biometric identification
Cost effectiveness analysis
Data collection
Homeland security
Identity verification
Immigration information systems
Internal controls
Operational testing
Passports
Performance measures
Program evaluation
Program management
Strategic planning
Visas
Information sharing
DHS Visitor and Immigrant Status
Indicator Technology Program
Other Written Product
A46797
Homeland Security: Recommendations to Improve Management of Key Border Security Program Need to Be Implemented
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has established a
program--the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator
Technology (US-VISIT)--to collect, maintain, and share
information, including biometric identifiers, on selected foreign
nationals entering and exiting the United States. US-VISIT uses
these identifiers (digital fingerscans and photographs) to screen
persons against watch lists and to verify that a visitor is the
person who was issued a visa or other travel document. Visitors
are also to confirm their departure by having their visas or
passports scanned and undergoing fingerscanning at selected air
and sea ports of entry (POE). GAO has made many recommendations
to improve the program, all of which DHS has agreed to implement.
GAO was asked to report on DHS's progress in responding to 18 of
these recommendations.
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-296/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-296.htm
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-296/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-296.pdf
GAO-06-296
https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-06-296
Other Written Product
GAO-06-296; Homeland Security: Recommendations to Improve Management of Key Border Security Program Need to Be Implemented;
Biometric identification
Cost effectiveness analysis
Data collection
Homeland security
Identity verification
Immigration information systems
Internal controls
Operational testing
Passports
Performance measures
Program evaluation
Program management
Strategic planning
Visas
Information sharing
DHS Visitor and Immigrant Status
Indicator Technology Program