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8 U.S.C. § 1379 — Technology standard to confirm identity
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(1) **In general** — The Attorney General and the Secretary of State jointly, through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and other Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies the Attorney General or Secretary of State deems appropriate and in consultation with Congress, shall within 15 months after October 26, 2001, develop and certify a technology standard, including appropriate biometric identifier standards, that can be used to verify the identity of persons applying for a United States visa or such persons seeking to enter the United States pursuant to a visa for the purposes of conducting background checks, confirming identity, and ensuring that a person has not received a visa under a different name or such person seeking to enter the United States pursuant to a visa.
(2) **Interoperable** — The technology standard developed pursuant to paragraph (1), shall be the technological basis for a cross-agency, cross-platform electronic system that is a cost-effective, efficient, fully interoperable means to share law enforcement and intelligence information necessary to confirm the identity of such persons applying for a United States visa or such person seeking to enter the United States pursuant to a visa.
(3) **Accessible** — The electronic system described in paragraph (2), once implemented, shall be readily and easily accessible to—
(A) all consular officers responsible for the issuance of visas;
(B) all Federal inspection agents at all United States border inspection points; and
(C) all law enforcement and intelligence officers as determined by regulation to be responsible for investigation or identification of aliens admitted to the United States pursuant to a visa.
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(1) **In general** — The Attorney General and the Secretary of State jointly, through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and other Federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies the Attorney General or Secretary of State deems appropriate and in consultation with Congress, shall within 15 months after October 26, 2001, develop and certify a technology standard, including appropriate biometric identifier standards, that can be used to verify the identity of persons applying for a United States visa or such persons seeking to enter the United States pursuant to a visa for the purposes of conducting background checks, confirming identity, and ensuring that a person has not received a visa under a different name or such person seeking to enter the United States pursuant to a visa.
(2) **Interoperable** — The technology standard developed pursuant to paragraph (1), shall be the technological basis for a cross-agency, cross-platform electronic system that is a cost-effective, efficient, fully interoperable means to share law enforcement and intelligence information necessary to confirm the identity of such persons applying for a United States visa or such person seeking to enter the United States pursuant to a visa.
(3) **Accessible** — The electronic system described in paragraph (2), once implemented, shall be readily and easily accessible to—
(A) all consular officers responsible for the issuance of visas;
(B) all Federal inspection agents at all United States border inspection points; and
(C) all law enforcement and intelligence officers as determined by regulation to be responsible for investigation or identification of aliens admitted to the United States pursuant to a visa.
(4) **Report** — Not later than one year after October 26, 2001, and every 2 years thereafter, the Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall jointly, in consultation with the Secretary of Treasury, report to Congress describing the development, implementation, efficacy, and privacy implications of the technology standard and electronic database system described in this section.
(5) **Funding** — There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.
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**(a) In general** The Commissioner and the Administrator shall have authority to maintain direct and continuous liaison with the Directors of the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Central Intelligence Agency and with other internal security officers of the Government for the purpose of obtaining and exchanging information for use in enforcing the provisions of this chapter in the interest of the internal and border security of the United States. The Commissioner and the Administrator shall maintain direct and continuous liaison with each other with a view to a coordinated, uniform, and efficient administration of this chapter, and all other immigration and nationality laws.
**(b) Access to National Crime Information Center files**
(1) The Attorney General and the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall provide the Department of State and the Service access to the criminal history record information contained in the National Crime Information Center’s Interstate Identification Index (NCIC-III), Wanted Persons File, and to any other files maintained by the National Crime Information Center that may be mutually agreed upon by the Attorney General and the agency receiving the access, for the purpose of determining whether or not a visa applicant or applicant for admission has a criminal history record indexed in any such file.
(2) Such access shall be provided by means of extracts of the records for placement in the automated visa lookout or other appropriate database, and shall be provided without any fee or charge.
(3) The Federal Bureau of Investigation shall provide periodic updates of the extracts at intervals mutually agreed upon with the agency receiving the access. Upon receipt of such updated extracts, the receiving agency shall make corres
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**(a) Interim directive** Until the plan required by subsection (c) is implemented, Federal law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community shall, to the maximum extent practicable, share any information with the Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service relevant to the admissibility and deportability of aliens, consistent with the plan described in subsection (c).
**(b) Report identifying law enforcement and intelligence information**
(1) **In general** — Not later than 120 days after May 14, 2002, the President shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report identifying Federal law enforcement and the intelligence community information needed by the Department of State to screen visa applicants, or by the Immigration and Naturalization Service to screen applicants for admission to the United States, and to identify those aliens inadmissible or deportable under the Immigration and Nationality Act [[8 U.S.C. 1101](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1101&num=0&edition=prelim) et seq.].
(2) **Omitted**
**(c) Coordination plan**
(1) **Requirement for plan** — Not later than one year after October 26, 2001, the President shall develop and implement a plan based on the findings of the report under subsection (b) that requires Federal law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community to provide to the Department of State and the Immigration and Naturalization Service all information identified in that report as expeditiously as practicable.
(2) **Consultation requirement** — In the preparation and implementation of the plan under this subsection, the President shall consult with the appropriate committees of Congress.
(3) **Protections regarding information and uses thereof**
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**(a) Interoperable law enforcement and intelligence electronic data system**
(1) **Requirement for integrated immigration and naturalization data system** — The Immigration and Naturalization Service shall fully integrate all databases and data systems maintained by the Service that process or contain information on aliens. The fully integrated data system shall be an interoperable component of the electronic data system described in paragraph (2).
(2) **Requirement for interoperable data system** — Upon the date of commencement of implementation of the plan required by [section 1721(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1721/c&num=0&edition=prelim), the President shall develop and implement an interoperable electronic data system to provide current and immediate access to information in databases of Federal law enforcement agencies and the intelligence community that is relevant to determine whether to issue a visa or to determine the admissibility or deportability of an alien (also known as the “Chimera system”).
(3) **Consultation requirement** — In the development and implementation of the data system under this subsection, the President shall consult with the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and any such other agency as may be deemed appropriate.
(4) **Technology standard**
(A) *In general* — The data system developed and implemented under this subsection, and the databases referred to in paragraph (2), shall utilize the technology standard established pursuant to [section 1379 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1379&num=0&edition=prelim).
(B) *Omitted*
(5) **Access to information in data system** — Subject t
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**(a) Development of system** In developing the integrated entry and exit data system for the ports of entry, as required by the Immigration and Naturalization Service Data Management Improvement Act of 2000 (Public Law 106–215), the Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall—
(1) implement, fund, and use a technology standard under [section 1379 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1379&num=0&edition=prelim) at United States ports of entry and at consular posts abroad;
(2) establish a database containing the arrival and departure data from machine-readable visas, passports, and other travel and entry documents possessed by aliens; and
(3) make interoperable all security databases relevant to making determinations of admissibility under [section 1182 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1182&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Implementation** In implementing the provisions of subsection (a), the Immigration and Naturalization Service and the Department of State shall—
(1) utilize technologies that facilitate the lawful and efficient cross-border movement of commerce and persons without compromising the safety and security of the United States; and
(2) consider implementing the North American National Security Program described in [section 1751 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title8-section1751&num=0&edition=prelim).
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**(a) Report**
(1) **In general** — Not later than 180 days after May 14, 2002, the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), acting jointly, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a comprehensive report assessing the actions that will be necessary, and the considerations to be taken into account, to achieve fully, not later than October 26, 2004—
(A) implementation of the requirements of subsections (b) and (c); and
(B) deployment of the equipment and software to allow biometric comparison and authentication of the documents described in subsections (b) and (c).
(2) **Estimates** — In addition to the assessment required by paragraph (1), the report required by that paragraph shall include an estimate of the costs to be incurred, and the personnel, man-hours, and other support required, by the Department of Justice, the Department of State, and NIST to achieve the objectives of subparagraphs (A) and (B) of paragraph (1).
**(b) Requirements**
(1) **In general** — Not later than October 26, 2004, the Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall issue to aliens only machine-readable, tamper-resistant visas and other travel and entry documents that use biometric identifiers. The Attorney General and the Secretary of State shall jointly establish document authentication standards and biometric identifiers standards to be employed on such visas and other travel and entry documents from among those biometric identifiers recognized by domestic and international standards organizations.
(2) **Readers and scanners at ports of entry**
(A) *In general* — Not later than October 26, 2005, the Attorney General, in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall install at all ports of ent
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TITLE 8—ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
§ 1379
(B) participants in the family case man-
agement program;
(C) level of supervision; and
(D) location of supervision, by field office;
(3) for each facility where aliens are de-
tained by U.S. Immigration and Customs En-
forcement—
(A) the address;
(B) the field offices that assign detainees
to the facility;
(C) the detailed facility type, as defined in
the integrated decision support system;
(D) the gender of aliens detained;
(E) the average daily population of detain-
ees within each detainee classification level,
as defined in the integrated decision support
system;
(F) the average daily population of individ-
uals within each threat level, as defined in
the integrated decision support system;
(G) the average daily population within
each criminality category, as defined in the
integrated
decision
support
system,
disaggregated by gender;
(H) the average length of stay;
(I) the average daily population of individ-
uals whose detention is classified as manda-
tory;
(J) the performance standards to which the
facility is held;
(K) the date of the two most recent inspec-
tions, the entity that performed each inspec-
tion, and a detailed summary of the results
of such inspections; and
(L) the guaranteed minimum detention ca-
pacity, if applicable; and
(4) the total number of releases from cus-
tody, by condition of release, and total num-
ber of removals, disaggregated by adult facili-
ties and family facilities.
(Pub. L. 116–93, div. D, title II, § 218, Dec. 20, 2019,
133 Stat. 2514.)
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CODIFICATION
Section was enacted as part of the Department of
Homeland Security Appropriations Act, 2020, and also
as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020,
and not as part of the Immigr
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