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HSI Extreme Vetting Industry Day Presentation
Aug. 7 2017 — 1:05 p.m.

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HOMELAND SECURITY
INVESTIGATIONS
NATIONAL SECURITY
INVESTIGATIONS DIVISION

NATIONAL SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS
DIVISION ( NSID)
Industry Day
Department of Homeland
Security (DHS)
Homeland Security
Investigations (HSI)
Data Analysis Services

OFFICE OF ACQUISITION (OAQ) CONTRACTING
Welcome Remarks & Introductions
1. Michelle Kelley, Section Chief
Contracting Officer, ICE-OAQ-Dallas
2. Richard Meier, Section Chief
Contracting Officer, ICE-OAQ-Dallas
3. William Weinberg
Chief Acquisition Officer, ICE-OAQ- DC

NATIONAL SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS
DIVISION ( NSID)
National Security
Investigations Division
(NSID)
Clark E. Settles, Assistant Director

NATIONAL SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS
DIVISION ( NSID)
National Security Investigations Division (NSID) protects the United States through
the following activities:
• Enhancing national security through criminal investigations;
• Preventing acts of terrorism by targeting the people, money and materials that support
terrorist and criminal activities; and
• Identifying the eliminating vulnerabilities in the nation’s border, economic,
transportation
infrastructure security.
NSID comprises three programs with units and sections within these programs:
• Counter-Proliferation Investigations Program (CPI) and Export Enforcement Coordination
Center (E2C2)
• Student & Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP)
• National Security Programs (NSP)

NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS
Protecting our nation against terrorists and transnational criminal
organizations that threaten national security and our trade, travel and
financial systems.
National Security Programs (NSP) comprises the following units:
• Human Rights Violators & War Crimes Unit (HRVWCU)
• National Security Unit (NSU)
• National Security Liaisons
• Counterterrorism and Criminal Exploitation Unit (CTCEU)
• Visa Security Coordination Center (VSCC)

NATIONAL SECURITY INVESTIGATIONS
DIVISION ( NSID)
Vetting of the Future:
• Identifying gaps and improvements to current screening and vetting
capabilities
• New contract
• Encompass the entire lifecycle of visa applicants
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Leverage all available datasets to create a Federated Query Vetting
System
• Comprehensive utilization of innovative big-data programs to enhance
current vetting procedures and processes.
• Research and development of web-crawler/social media programs to
enhance vetting capabilities

COUNTERTERRORISM AND CRIMINAL
EXPLOITATION UNIT (CTCEU)
Counterterrorism and Criminal
Exploitation Unit
(CTCEU)
Roland Burbano, Unit Chief

CTCEU OVERVIEW
Mission Statement
To proactively scrutinize known or suspected terrorists and their associates,
identify terrorist criminal enterprises, prevent terrorists and other criminals
from exploiting the nation’s immigration system and to expand the resource
equities within the various Law Enforcement Agencies and Intelligence
Communities
History
In June 2003, ICE established the CEU, the first national program dedicated
to the enforcement of immigration violations by nonimmigrants. In
September 2010, the Unit’s responsibilities expanded; rebranded as the
CTCEU to better reflect the Unit’s role in preventing terrorists and other
criminals from exploiting the nation’s immigration system. CTCEU contributes
to the “disrupt and deter” counterterrorism strategy of the United States.

CTCEU SECTIONS
Terrorist Tracking Pursuit Group
To identify transnational criminal organizations engaged in human
trafficking and human smuggling, and investigate the groups that
pose the greatest risk to the U.S.
Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS)
Exploitation Section (SES)
Identifies and investigates schools, exchange visitor programs, and
individuals who exploit the vulnerabilities of the SEVIS system.

CTCEU INITIATIVES
CTCEU Initiatives
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National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) Collaboration
Social Media Vetting Initiative
DOD – Joint Interagency Task Force, National Capital Region (JIATF-NCR)
Visa Revocation Program
International Military Students Absent Without Leave (IMS AWOL) Program
Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI)
International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL)
Operation Clipped Wings
Foreign Flight Schools
Project Campus Sentinel
SEVP Analysis and Operations Center (SAOC) Partnership
U.S. Service Academy Candidate Vetting
Pilot Programs: Overstay Lifecycle/Domestic Mantis

VISA SECURITY COORDINATION CENTER
(VSCC)
Visa Security Coordination
Center
(VSCC)
Austin Moore, Unit Chief

VSCC
PROGRAMS/OPERATIONS/PI
LOTS
VSCC Programs/Operations/Pilots
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PATRIOT
MANTIS
NCTC Liaison – KFE – SAO Processing - ICE HSI Watchlisting Cell
NTC Liaison
Social Media Pilot
Visa Fee Study

VSCC PRE ADJUDICATED THREAT RECOGNITION
INTELLIGENCE OPERATIONS TEAM (PATRIOT)
Pre Adjudicated Threat Recognition Intelligence Operations
Team (PATRIOT)
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Between 35,000 – 50,000 Non-Immigrant Visa (NIV) applications filed with
DOS daily
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Prior to PATRIOT, the Visa Security Program’s (VSP) screening and vetting
efforts focused on visa applications already approved (adjudicated) by the
Department of State (DOS).
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PATRIOT alleviates the necessity of manual data entry performed by HSI
special agents at Attaché offices with visa security operations.
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PATRIOT significantly expands ICE’s investigative and intelligence
capabilities through focused rules-based screening of all NIV applicants.
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PATRIOT bolsters DHS’s investigative scope and capabilities to provide
actionable leads to HSI offices, both domestic and abroad

VSCC PATRIOT
PATRIOT (cont.)
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PATRIOT receives pre-adjudicative visa data from the DOS Consular
Electronic Application Center (CEAC) at the point of application and
automatically ingests the data into the system for screening against DHS
holdings in Automated Targeting System (ATS).
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Initial screening results produce a GREEN or RED light that will be sent to
DOS identifying whether or not DHS holds potentially derogatory
information on an applicant.
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All visa applicant data is imported into PATRIOT (real-time) for creation of
an internal case management record.
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After full analytic vetting, HSI agents review the derogatory information
for eligibility and admissibility concerns. Agents then de-conflict with any
other stakeholders (CBP, USCIS, etc.) and HSI investigative interests.

VSCC
MANTIS
MANTIS
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Visas MANTIS is a Security Advisory Opinion (SAO) targeted at aliens who may
be involved in violation or evasion of United States' laws by exporting goods,
software, technology, or sensitive information.
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Visas MANTIS also targets the prevention of proliferation, maintenance of the
United States' advantage in militarily critical technologies, and containment of
destabilizing conventional military technology to certain regions of the world.
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DOS’ Technology Alert List (TAL) identifies all nationalities and sensitive fields
subject to Mantis SAO.
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NSID VSS screens 100% of Mantis SAOs worldwide daily, inputting results into
Visa Security Program Tracking System (VSPTS).
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Used to determine Visa eligibility or non-eligibility for consular offices in
coordination with PATRIOT and MANTIS and KFE through the Inter Agency

EXTREME VETTING INITIATIVE –
OVERARCHING VETTING
Extreme Vetting Initiative Objectives
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ICE must evaluate and transform current vetting programs in an expedited
fashion to meet the mandates outlined by the President’s Executive Orders
that address American immigration and border protection security and
interests.
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In an effort to meet the outlined mandates, ICE has initiated the process to
obtain contractor services to establish an overarching vetting contract that
automates, centralizes and streamlines the current manual vetting process
while simultaneously making determinations via automation if the data
retrieved is actionable.

EXTREME VETTING INITIATIVE –
OVERARCHING VETTING
Extreme Vetting Initiative Objectives (cont.)
Performance Objectives of the Overarching Vetting Contract:
1. Centralizes screening and vetting processes to mitigate case backlog and
provide law enforcement and field agents with timely, actionable
information;
2. Allows ICE to develop richer case files that provide more value-added
information to further investigations or support prosecutions in
immigration or federal courts;
3. Allows ICE to perform regular, periodic and/or continuous review and
vetting of nonimmigrants for changes in their risk profile after they enter
the United States and;
4. Automates at no loss of data quality or veracity any manually-intensive
vetting and screening processes that inhibit ICE from properly and
