{"id":62709,"date":"2015-11-09T11:57:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62709"},"modified":"2015-11-09T11:57:37","modified_gmt":"2015-11-09T16:57:37","slug":"at-dhs-1-billion-and-a-decades-work-equals-one-electronic-form-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62709","title":{"rendered":"At DHS, $1+ Billion and a Decade\u2019s Work Equals . . . One Electronic Form Online"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over a decade ago, DHS decided to modernize its immigration processing.\u00a0 So DHS decided to initiate a project that would make many of the required forms available online, and to allow them to be filled out online as well \u2013 with answers stored digitally.\u00a0 Associated fees were also to be payable online.<\/p>\n

The system was originally projected to cost around $500 million, and to have been completed two years ago. The reality? Well, that’s a bit different.<\/p>\n

Today, the system DHS commissioned has one form that can be filled out online. (Two other forms briefly were available online, but were pulled due to technical issues.) DHS\u2019s system also will accept a single fee online. The remaining nearly 100 forms and their associated fees (if any) today remain paper only.<\/p>\n

The system is now expected to be ready in four years – maybe – after having taken close to twice the amount of time originally estimated. And the total cost is expected to be approximately $3.1 billion \u2013 or around 6 times the original estimated cost.<\/p>\n

The Washington Post<\/u> yesterday had a longish article describing this debacle<\/a><\/em>. You won\u2019t enjoy reading it. But IMO you should read it anyway.<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0 Well, after all . . . you and I are paying for this abomination.\u00a0 It literally is \u201cour tax dollars at work\u201d \u2013 loosely speaking, of course, since not much real \u201cwork\u201d seems to be getting done here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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