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CBP Deploying Electronic Visa Update System

Homeland Security Today: Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is readying to deploy a new web-based Electronic Visa Update System (EVUS) developed this year to collect updated information from certain aliens who hold extended-length visas before the alien travels to the United States, by requiring enrollment in EVUS and periodic updates to biographic and other information in an effort to increase the opportunities to identify individuals who may pose a threat or who are otherwise inadmissible to the United States.

The EVUS enrollment system will be used to collect information from nonimmigrant aliens who hold a passport that was issued by an identified country approved for inclusion in the EVUS program and, have been issued a US nonimmigrant visa of a designated category.

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