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INS to Get New System for Verifying Citizen Status

The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) will implement a new system to verify the status of non-U.S. citizens applying for federal, state and local benefits, according to Computer Sciences Corp.

El SEGUNDO, Calif. - The Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) will implement a new system to verify the status of non-U.S. citizens applying for federal, state and local benefits, according to Computer Sciences Corp. The corporation won a task order from the General Services Administration's Federal Systems Integration and Management Center to provide the INS with the system.

The order calls for developing, implementing, maintaining and operating the Verification Information System for the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program (VIS). VIS will process verification requests for more than 50,000 federal, state and local agencies that grant benefits to non-citizens and the employers that hire them.

The seven-year, $31 million task order was awarded under the GSA Federal Technology Service's Millennia contract.

The system will also verify the employment eligibility of new hires for employers participating in pilot programs. VIS will be a multi-headed relational database management system with Web and legacy interfaces. It is intended to replace the Alien Status Verification Index mainframe-based system and encompass an existing server-based case management system.

Computer Sciences Corp. is partnering with Alta Systems; Integrated System Support Associates; NCS Pearson and SI International.