Sec. 7. Machine readable visa documents
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Except as provided in subsection (b), not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State shall— require the use of 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 the effective date of such waiver— a detailed explanation for why such 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 Accountability 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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