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WASHINGTON — Faced with
a backlog of more than 30 million
unprocessed visitors’ forms,'U.S.
immigration officials say it will
take until 1983 to verify who en
tered or left the country in the past
two years.
“Thirty million? That’s incredi
ble! Rep. Henry Hyde, R-Ill., a
leading congressional crusader for
immigration reform, said Sunday
night upon learning of the pileup.
The backup affects records on
roughly 20 million visitors since
January 1980. Immigration and
Naturalization Service officials in
sist the vast majority of those per
sons returned to their native
lands, but admit they have no use-
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able data to prove it.
Agency officials, revealing the
backlog in interviews with United
Press International, put much of
the blame on Milmark Service
Inc., a firm they charged failed to
perform under a contract calling
for it to process the forms.
But an officer of the Baltimore
firm said Sunday that INS is trying
to make Milmark the goat for its
own ineptitude. Thomas Ruger,
Milmark’s treasurer, said INS had
a backlog of 10 million of the visi
tors’ 1-94 forms before Milmark
won the contract in 1980.
He said the agency postponed
the start of work six times while
the company lost money by repe
atedly hiring and then laying off
the necessary personnel. When
work finally began in July 1980,
Milmark got just a week’s notice,
couldn’t perform and lost the con
tract as well .as a lot of money, he
said.
Robert Kane, associate INS
commissioner who heads the
effort to computerize the agency’s
records, said the bureaucratic
mess “puts the whole credibility of
the system into question.’’
Hyde expressed his astonish
ment at the situation.
“It’s a total breakdown, he
said. “My God, they’re confessing
that the total system has broken
down. Things like this incense
people —* and they ought to in
cense Congress.”
Rep. Dan Lungren, R-Calif., a
member of a House subcommittee
on immigration, said “the figure
(of unprocessed forms) is mind-
boggling.”
Both Hyde and Lungren said
they hope Congress will provide a
funding boost to help INS do its
job. However, Lungren noted
that INS has been a poor example
of management in the federal gov
ernment.
Irvin Klavan, associate INS
commissioner for information ser
vices, said the backlog of 1-94
forms — filed when visitors enter
and leave the country — totaled
more than 30 million on Sept. 30,
the last official count.
He said it now is probably 32
million.
Klavan also said 664.000 visi
tors applications for extension of
their temporary visas have not
been put into the INS computer,
since they could not be matched to
the original arrival forms. That
means the INS also is crippled
from monitoring those cases.
“We have no idea who came,
who left and, of course, who’s
here,” said one disgruntled INS
official, who asked to remain
anonymous.
However, the INS is using its
own personnel to keep computer
records on visits by special groups
such as Iranians, who have been
watched closely since the hostage
crisis.
Once the files began accumulat
ing, an INS task force considered
destroying the millions of files and
starting from scratch.
Klavan said the agency decided
to store the data because investi
gators were frequently asking for
computer checks on aliens they
suspected of overstaying visas,
even those issued prior to 1980.
On Sept. 30, immigration offi
cials awarded some $2 million in
contracts to three firms to resume
processing the forms, giving them
special training because the forms
are often scrawled in foreign lan
guages and hard to read. But offi
cials say it will be at least January
1983 before the backlog is wiped
out.
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rain, snow nor budget battles will
stop the U.S. mail, a spokesman
said Monday.
The mails are unaffected by the
current budget problems in Con
gress because the agency operates
primarily on revenues, not
appropriations, a spokesman for
the U.S. Postal Service suiil .
The spokesman said: “Were
operating on revenue. We don’t
go the appropriations route.”
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week, last year, he said.
The U.S. Postal Service gets
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the federal government, bn
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