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Privacy

The DHS Privacy Office is responsible for evaluating the Department programs, systems, and initiatives for potential privacy impacts, and providing strategies to reduce the privacy impact.

  • S1 Calendars

    This page contains the annual calendars for the current and past Secretaries of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

  • DHS/ALL/PIA-093 Hummingbird

    On August 29, 2021, President Biden directed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to lead implementation of ongoing efforts across the federal government to support vulnerable Afghans, including those who worked alongside the United States in Afghanistan for the past two decades, as they safely resettle in the United States. Leadership of the program is transitioning from the Department of State (State) to DHS. In order to support its OAW responsibilities, DHS will use the Hummingbird application as a tool for tracking, screening, processing, and resettling individuals coming from Afghanistan who prior to arrival are neither U.S. citizens nor lawful permanent residents.

  • DHS/CBP/PIA-068 CBP One™ Mobile Application

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), launched a new public-facing application, CBP OneTM, to provide the public a single portal to a variety of CBP services. The application is available on both web and mobile devices. CBP OneTM will eventually replace and upgrade existing CBP public-facing mobile applications to improve user interaction and services. CBP OneTM includes different functionality for travelers, importers, brokers, carriers, International Organizations, and other entities under a single consolidated log-in and uses guided questions to help users determine the correct services, forms, or applications needed. CBP is conducting this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to address privacy risks in the deployment and use of the CBP OneTM mobile application. CBP has also issued an update to clarify that CBP OneTM stores information locally on a user's device. (October 2024) 

     

  • DHS/USCIS/PIA-010 Person Centric Query Service

    The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) developed the Person Centric Query Service (PCQS) to allow users to submit a single query and view all transactions involving an immigrant or nonimmigrant across multiple DHS and external systems.

  • National Appointment Scheduling System

    The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) uses the National Appointment Scheduling System (NASS), a cloud-operated system, to schedule appointments for biometric collections at Application Support Centers (ASCs). The Canada Appointment Scheduler was created to allow individuals seeking an immigration benefit with Canada to schedule a biometrics collection appointment at an ASC. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) is being updated to account for the collection, use, maintenance, and dissemination of personally identifiable information (PII) from individuals who are seeking a Canadian immigration benefit and who schedule a biometric collection appointment at an ASC.

  • DHS/ALL/PIA-050 DHS Trusted Identity Exchange

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Trusted Identity Exchange (TIE) is a privacy-enhancing DHS Enterprise Service that enables and manages the digital flow of identity, credential, and access-management data for DHS employees and contractors. It does so by establishing connections to various internal authoritative data sources and provides a secure, digital interface to consuming applications.

  • DHS/USCIS/PIA-056 USCIS Electronic Immigration System (USCIS ELIS)

    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Electronic Immigration System (ELIS) serves as an internal case management system for electronically filed benefit request forms and certain paper forms, along with providing services and system interconnections. ELIS is an end-to-end digital case processing “system-of-services” that offers a seamless user experience for USCIS employees to perform highly complex processing and adjudicative tasks. 

  • DHS Privacy FOIA Logs

    Below, find the DHS Privacy Office FOIA Logs.

  • OBIM FOIA Logs

    These logs contain incoming FOIA requests for the OBIM and United States Visitor and Immigration Status Indicator Technology Program (US-VISIT).

  • DHS/CBP/PIA-072 Unified Immigration Portal (UIP)

    The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Unified Immigration Portal (UIP) provides agencies involved in the immigration process a means to view and access certain information from each of the respective agencies from a single portal in near real time (as the information is entered into the source systems). CBP is publishing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to provide notice of implementation of the UIP and assess the privacy risks and mitigations for the UIP.