Mavric Posted November 9, 2015 Share Posted November 9, 2015 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. From the start, the initiative was mismanaged, the records and interviews show. Agency officials did not complete the basic plans for the computer system until nearly three years after the initial $500 million contract had been awarded to IBM, and the approach to adopting the technology was outdated before work on it began. Washington Post 1 Link to comment
Bowfin Posted November 10, 2015 Share Posted November 10, 2015 Is it double sided? Because that would almost make like TWO documents. cutting the price to a paltry $500 per page...kind of... 1 Link to comment
NUance Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Digitizing electronic forms? Really?? Seems like they could have tailored some .pdf docs with data entry cells. It wouldn't take much effort at all to set up a system like that. Probly get it done for $100k, plus a couple million for hardware. Link to comment
greenmonkey51 Posted November 11, 2015 Share Posted November 11, 2015 Now what's the rest of the story. I'm guessing there is something being left out. Link to comment
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