Washington Post Article on Failed Efforts to Modernize USCIS

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-decade-into-a-project-to-digitize-us-immigration-forms-just-1-is-online/2015/11/08/f63360fc-830e-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html

Heaving under mountains of paperwork, the government has spent more than $1 billion trying to replace its antiquated approach to managing immigration with a system of digitized records, online applications and a full suite of nearly 100 electronic forms.

A decade in, all that officials have to show for the effort is a single form that’s now available for online applications and a single type of fee that immigrants pay electronically. The 94 other forms can be filed only with paper.

This project, run by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, was originally supposed to cost a half­ billion dollars and be finished in 2013. Instead, it’s now projected to reach up to $3.1 billion and be done nearly four years from now, putting in jeopardy efforts to overhaul the nation’s immigration policies, handle immigrants already seeking citizenship and detect national security threats, according to documents and interviews with former and current federal officials.

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[Ryan H 3,812]

Moved from US Citizenship Discussion to US Immigration News and Discussion.

Edited November 10, 2015 by Ryan H

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Government organizations are so efficient

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The nvc ep pilot program was stellar and superfast.

Then a new vendor got awarded during the rollout, and its systems were #######. Fast forward 3 years now, and its a huge pile of #######.

Sure, nvc is part of dos, not uscis, but hey.

Edited November 24, 2015 by Darnell

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Government seems to do a particularly bad job with large IT projects.

Basically all large IT projects by the government end as failures:

http://www.brookings.edu/blogs/techtank/posts/2015/08/25-yaraghi-government-it-projects

Edited December 8, 2015 by ExPatty