Department Of Homeland Security Status Report

Department of Homeland Security status report: assessing challenges and measuring progress: hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, September 6, 2007.

Department of Homeland Security status report : assessing challenges and measuring progress : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Tenth Congress, first session, September 6, 2007.

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The Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) has established a program known as U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) to collect, maintain, and share info., including biometric identifiers, on certain foreign nationals who travel to and from the U.S. DHS is to develop and submit an expenditure plan for US-VISIT that satisfies certain conditions. This report: (1) determines if the plan satisfies the 12 legislative conditions; and (2) provides observations about the plan and management of the program. To accomplish this, the auditor assessed the plan and related DHS certification letters against each aspect of each legislative condition and assessed program documentation against fed. guidelines and industry standards. Ill.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has established a program known as U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) to collect, maintain, and share information, including biometric identifiers, on certain foreign nationals who travel to and from the United States. By congressional mandate, DHS is to develop and submit an expenditure plan for US-VISIT that satisfies certain conditions, including being reviewed by GAO. GAO's objectives were to (1) determine if the plan satisfies the twelve legislative conditions and (2) provide observations about the plan and management of the program. To accomplish this, GAO assessed the plan and related DHS certification letters against each aspect of each legislative condition and assessed program documentation against federal guidelines and industry standards. GAO is recommending that the Secretary direct the department's Investment Review Board to immediately review the program relative to the findings and observations in this report and report the results to Congress. In written comments on a draft of this letter, DHS officials said that they