Immigration might Go Paperless

The Bush administration has launched a major overhaul of the nation's immigration services agency, selecting an industry consortium led by IBM to reinvent how the government handles about 7 million applications each year for visas, citizenship and approval to work in the United States, officials announced yesterday.

If successful, the five-year, $500 million effort to convert U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services' case-management system from paper-based to electronic could reduce backlogs and processing delays by at least 20 percent, and possibly more than 50 percent, people close to the project said. Those problems have long frustrated new Americans and other immigrants. See the full article at washingtonpost.com.

In another story it is expected that OBAMA might back in increasing H-1B visa even at the time of recession, sounds interesting right!!, see it yourselves at www.computerworld.com

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