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NSIAD-95-122R 1 (1995-04-17)

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GAO          United States
             General Accounting Office
             Washington, D.C. 20548

             National Security and
             International Affairs Division

             B-260795

             April 17, 1995



             The Honorable Benjamin A. Gilman
             Chairman, Committee on International Relations
             House of Representatives

             The Honorable Elton Gallegly
             House of Representatives

             The Honorable Olympia J. Snowe
             United States Senate


             As you requested, we have reviewed the State Department
             Inspector General's two recent reports on nonimmigrant visa
             processes and procedures.

             In March 1994, the Inspector General reported on the
             circumstances surrounding the issuance of visas to Sheik
             Abdel Rahman,1 efforts to prevent him from entering the
             United States, and efforts to expel him after he had
             entered. This report was phase I of the Review of the
             Nonimmigrant Visa-Issuing Process. Phase II, issued in
             January 1995, focused on worldwide systemic problems of the
             consular lookout system (a computerized database in the
             Washington, D.C., area for checking the names of
             individuals ineligible for visas), and the adequacy of
             systems and procedures for issuing nonimmigrant visas and
             preventing ineligible or undesirable individuals from
             obtaining visas and entering the United States.

             The phase II report concluded that the department improved
             the process by (1)installing machine readable visa (MRV)


             'Sheik Abdel Rahman was granted a nonimmigrant visa to
             enter the United States and was subsequently indicted
             for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York
             City.

                     GAO/NSIAD-95-122R    Nonimmigrant Visa Processing

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