Privacy Impact Assessment Update for the USCIS Person Centric Query Service

November 17, 2008 by Thomas Esparza  
Filed under Attorneys

This is an update to the existing Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) for the Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA), Visa Benefit Adjudicators, Visa Fraud Officers, and Consular Officers (Adjudicators and Officers) use of the Person Centric Query Service (PCQS), operating through the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) to: expand the PCQS person-search capability and describe the privacy impact of expanding the PCQ Service to include the following additional systems to the PCQS query for the Bureau of Consular Affairs, Adjudicators and Officers Client: 1) USCIS Marriage Fraud Amendment System (MFAS) and 2) USCIS Reengineered Naturalization Applications Casework System (RNACS).

This information provided is not intended to replace the advice of an attorney but is merely provided as a public service. Each immigration case is different. For more information, consult with Thomas Esparza, Jr., Board Certified Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law with more than 32 years of experience.