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DHS Purchase Card Information
DHS Purchase Cardholder Lists and Transaction Reports
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DHS/TSA/PIA-042 TSA OIA Technology Infrastructure Modernization Program
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA)’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis (OIA) Technology Infrastructure Modernization (TIM) Program is an enterprise architecture designed to align TSA security threat assessment (STA) with credentialing activities for individuals. These individuals require access to transportation facilities, infrastructure, assets, Sensitive Security Information (SSI), or related security credentials or clearances. TIM integrates several vetting programs and systems and facilitates STA adjudication, credentialing, and redress processes. TIM accesses the same Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that is already collected for the underlying STA programs. TIM performs credentialing activities utilizing the PII that the underlying programs collect for the STAs. In light of this new information technology framework involving existing PII, TSA is conducted this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) pursuant to the privacy provisions of the E-Government Act of 2002.
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DHS/TSA/PIA-043 Travel Protocol Office Program
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) established the Travel Protocol Office (TPO) to support and facilitate the movement of eligible travelers whose presence at a security screening checkpoint may distract other travelers and/or reduce the efficiency of the screening process. TSA plans to collect limited Personally Identifiable Information (PII) on these individuals in order to facilitate airport transit and to conduct security screening operations. The TPO Program applies to commercial airports within the continental United States and its territories. Because this program entails collecting information about members of the public in identifiable form, the E-Government Act of 2002 requires that TSA conduct a Privacy Impact Assessment.
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Customer Scheduling and Services
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) allows customers to schedule appointments with an Immigration Service Officer (ISO) to discuss the specifics of their benefit application and petition through the infopass.uscis.gov website and customer service kiosks. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) discusses the USCIS systems associated with scheduling and managing appointments and evaluates the privacy risks and mitigation strategies built into the systems. These systems include InfoPass and the Customer Management Information System (CMIS). USCIS is updating and reissuing this PIA, originally published on June 6, 2013, because CMIS may collect, use, and maintain not only Alien Number, but also USCIS Electronic Immigration System Numbers and Receipt Numbers. USCIS also removed references to a planned automated process for an individual to check in for his or her appointment at a USCIS field office through bar code scanners that was not implemented, and updated the system’s Authority to Operate.
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Ombudsman J-2 Recommendation
International medical graduates in the United States make important contributions in clinical care in underserved areas, as well as research and teaching. These recommendations, issued by the Citizenship and Immigration Services Ombudsman, seek to ensure that spouses of foreign medical doctors accepted into the Conrad State 30 program are able to obtain employment authorization. Under this program, each state may receive up to 30 physicians each year to provide medical services to rural, inner city, and other medically underserved communities. USCIS currently does not permit spouses to change to an employment-authorized nonimmigrant status, even where the dependent independently qualifies for such status.
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DHS/CBP/PIA–024 Arrival and Departure Information System
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Arrival and Departure Information System (ADIS) consolidates data from a variety of systems to create a unique person-centric record with complete travel history. Originally, CBP created ADIS to identify individuals who had overstayed their class of admission (“visa overstays”); however, due to ADIS’s unique abilities to conduct biographic matching, data-tagging, and filtering, CBP is broadening its use of ADIS for all traveler encounters regardless of citizenship. CBP is republishing this Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) to provide notice, and assess the privacy risks, of expanding ADIS beyond its original visa overstay mission. As the primary CBP system used to determine person-centric travel history and immigration status, ADIS supports a variety of non-law enforcement use cases that often require U.S. citizen travel history. CBP is reissuing this PIA to document the expanded uses of ADIS and its maintenance of all CBP travel records, including those of U.S. citizens.
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DHS/OBIM/PIA-001 Automated Biometric Identification System
The Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) is the central DHS-wide system for storage and processing of biometric and associated biographic information for national security; law enforcement; immigration and border management; intelligence; background investigations for national security positions and certain positions of public trust; and associated testing, training, management reporting, planning and analysis, or other administrative uses. This Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) and the attached appendices provide transparency into how the system uses Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and details the system’s sharing partners and functions.
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Congressional Budget Justification FY 2015
Supporting information for the fiscal year 2015 budget request.
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FAR Class Deviation 14-02
FAR Class Deviation
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ICE Response to Task Force on Secure Communities
The Task Force on Secure Communities is a subcommittee of the Homeland Security Advisory Committee (HSAC) and was created in June 2011 at the request of the Secretary of Homeland Security. The HSAC, which is composed of leaders from state and local government, first responder agencies, the private sector, and academia, provides advice and recommendations to the Secretary on matters related to homeland security.