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Activity Number: 293
Type: Invited
Date/Time: Tuesday, August 11, 2015 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Section on Risk Analysis
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Title: Techniques for Risk Scoring of Automated National Security Watchlist Checks
Author(s): Tony Kassekert* and Mark Montezemolo
Companies: DHS/U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and DHS/U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
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Applications for immigration benefits are screened against numerous sources of derogatory information. USCIS's Fraud Detection and National Security Directorate recently started computerizing this process using biographical information from applications and automatically comparing it to several watchlists. Biographic-based screening produces "hits" derived from information duplicated in multiple databases or new information that can augment national security investigations. We employ several statistical techniques to (1) classify automated watchlist rule "hits" based on the level of new information they provide, and (2) prioritize individuals according to the risk associated with their national security watchlist "hits".

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