Sec. 1216. JOINT REPORT ON USING THE SYNCHRONIZED PREDEPLOYMENT AND OPERATIONAL TRACKER (SPOT) DATABASE TO VERIFY AFGHAN SIV APPLICANT INFORMATION

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## SEC. 1216 JOINT REPORT ON USING THE SYNCHRONIZED PREDEPLOYMENT AND OPERATIONAL TRACKER

(SPOT)DATABASE TO VERIFY AFGHAN SIV APPLICANT INFORMATION ###

(a)In General Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State shall submit to appropriate congressional committees a joint report on the use of the Department of Defense Synchronized Predeployment and Operational Tracker database (in this section referred to as the “SPOT database”) to verify the existence, for the purpose of determining eligibility for special immigrant visa

(SIV)program, of— ####

(1)Department of Defense contracts; ####

(2)employment of Afghans who worked for the United States Government; and ####

(3)biographic data. ###

(b)Elements of Joint Report The joint report required under subsection

(a)shall— ####

(1)evaluate the improvements in the SIV process following the use of the SPOT database to verify SIV applications, including the extent to which use of SPOT expedited SIV processing, reduced the risk of fraudulent documents, and the extent to which the SPOT database could be used for future SIV programs; ####

(2)identify obstacles that persisted in documenting the identity and employment of locally employed staff and contractors after the use of the SPOT database in the SIV process; and ####

(3)recommend the changes to the SPOT database that would be necessary to make it a centralized interagency database of personnel and employment data that can be used to adjudicate SIV eligibility for those employed under United States Government contracts, grants, or cooperative agreements. ###

(c)Consultation For the purposes of preparing the joint report required under this section, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State shall consult with the Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development and the Secretary of Homeland Security. ###

(d)Appropriate Congressional Committees Defined In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.