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Homeland Security

IBM Wins Potential $491M USCIS IT Award

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Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

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IBM [IBM] has won a potential five-year, $491.1 million contract by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) agency to move the agency to a new centralized and consolidated electronic environment to allow faster, more efficient and accurate immigration benefits determination and processing. The initial contract value is $14.5 million. USCIS receives about six million to eight million applications annually for immigrations benefits, such as employment visas, legal permanent residence and citizenship. The determination process is currently carried out using…

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