Sec. 4496. Machine readable visa documents
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Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall— use a machine-readable visa application form; and make available documents submitted in support of a visa application in a machine readable format to assist in— identifying fraud; conducting lawful law enforcement activities; and determining the eligibility of applicants for a visa under the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1101 et seq. ). The Secretary of State may waive the requirement under subsection
(a)by providing to Congress, not later than 30 days before such waiver takes effect— a detailed explanation for why the waiver is being issued; and a timeframe for the implementation of the requirement under subsection (a). Not later than 45 days after date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate, the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate; the Committee on Oversight and Reform of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Homeland Security of the House of Representatives, the Committee on Energy and Commerce of the House of Representatives, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives that— describes how supplementary documents provided by a visa applicant in support of a visa application are stored and shared by the Department of State with authorized Federal agencies; identifies the sections of a visa application that are machine-readable and the sections that are not machine-readable; provides cost estimates, including personnel costs and a cost-benefit analysis for adopting different technologies, including optical character recognition, for— making every element of a visa application, and documents submitted in support of a visa application, machine-readable; and ensuring that such system— protects personally-identifiable information; and permits the sharing of visa information with Federal agencies in accordance with existing law; and includes an estimated timeline for completing the implementation of subsection (a).
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Sec. 4496
Machine readable visa documents
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