11/01/2022
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Feature Article: The Question of Who You Are
Without even speaking a word, we identify ourselves every day and in many different ways. Perhaps you enter a PIN to sign-in to a bank account or use a password to login to your health benefits. You scan your own face to unlock your phone to access some of the apps running on it. You swipe an ID card with a magnetic stripe to enter your office building. And of course, when you travel or work abroad, you must identify yourself with a passport. But what are you sharing when you identify yourself? Where does that identifying number or document come from, and who controls access to it?
The Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) is working to help make your identity more secure, and to put control over your privacy and personal information into your own hands. Jared Goodwin, chief of the Document Management Division at USCIS, was also working on these issues. His division is tasked with the production of all immigration documents—they design the documents and acquire the vendors to produce them. USCIS wants to be able to issue digital credentials, like a green card, to a smartphone, for example. It could be easier to carry, easier to use, more secure, and it could be supported online. Actions like renewing and modifying immigration status wouldn’t require standing in line at an office somewhere.
Jared discovered that S&T’s Silicon Valley Innovation Program was exploring similar solutions, “going out to industry to look for ways to partner with agencies to prevent forgery and the counterfeiting of certificates and licenses.”
Sample digital resident alien card
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