USCIS Automating Pre-Processing of Immigration Cases

According to Chief technology officer, Rob Brown United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is focusing their efforts on automating functions that will aid in pre-processing immigration cases. This new function will help line up the stories of applicants and make it easier to spot fraudulent information. The system will sort through the biographic information provided in order to identify applicants and make a connection regarding their relationships and employers.

New tools will dissect supporting evidence related to an immigration case. In theory, making it easier for adjudicators to make decisions on who can receive benefits such as a green card and employment authorization. This new automated system also benefits the applicants as the processing time of their case will be cut down significantly. The work of organizing and vetting the information is done before the application hits the desk of the adjudicator on the case. Character recognition will be used to validate documents and classify necessary evidence. By doing this the USCIS workers can simply decide which documents they want to view rather than sorting through entire case files.

Switching to this form of identity validation also presents a number of cons, the number one con being cyber-attacks. Therefore, before making this a permanent switch the USCIS needs to seek help to ensure any sort of cyber-attack on the system is impossible. This will take some time to perfect as they have to conduct proper experimentation on their security systems.