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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…

Space

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Congress

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Congress

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