DHS/USCIS/PIA-044 Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE)

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) developed the Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE) to validate the business operations and financial viability of employers seeking to hire foreign workers; and identify benefit fraud based on internal and other government agencies’ referrals. USCIS is updating this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to account for (1) VIBE’s storing the VIBE advisory Record of Action (ROA); (2) the collection of additional Dun and Bradstreet (D&B) data elements; (3) updates to the information sharing agreement with the Department of Labor (DOL); (4) new interconnection with USCIS Electronic Immigration System (ELIS); (5) the addition of Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI)-Only Transitional Worker (CW-1) visa classification; (6) VIBE modernization; and (7) the future integration with (E-Verify). December 2021

Associated SORN(s)

• DHS/USCIS/ICE/CBP-001 Alien File, Index, and National File Tracking System of Records, 82 FR 43556
• DHS/USCIS-006 - Fraud Detection and National Security Records (FDNS), 77 FR 47411
• DHS/USCIS-007 Benefit Information System, 81 FR 72069