CIS digitizes immigration applications for processing

Citizenship and Immigration Services will spend at least a half-billion dollars so it can process immigration applications over the Internet -- instead of through the U.S. mail. The agency signed a five-year contract with IBM in November; the company will be the lead systems integrator on the project. It's tasked with digitizing the agency's processing system, which currently relies on some 70 million paper files scattered at hundreds of locations across the country.

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