Notable among tough measures were the introduction of the Consular Lookout and Support System, CLASS, and the State Department controlled Terrorist Identities Datamart Environment, TIDE, and other technology assisted method of cross checking the background identities and profile of the prospective visa applicants to determine if there are incriminating information about such applicants.
According to a source: "These databases allow a number of U.S. government agencies to make input into the back ground check on visa applicants and decision on the visa issuance process".
Visa issuance process
For instance, CLASS is tied into the Interagency Border Inspection System, IBIS. The US has also introduced what is called the Diplomatic Security Service, DSS, which is charged with identifying documentation fraud, such as cases of stolen identities, tampering with US passport, false declarations etc. Vanguard learnt that agents have since been has long assigned to Nigeria to investigate cases of passport and visa fraud.
The source added: "The idea of sending DSS to Nigeria came after the Abdulmutallab episode; of course, one of the charges preferred against him was that he conspired with other people at large to come into America to kill Americans, so if you want to come to the US to become a threat to its citizens, the best thing would be to stop you in your country."
President Obama was very upset and embarrassed that the Abdulmutallab incident that on U.S. January 7, 2010. He outlined a set of new policies in response to the Abdulmutallab incident as the Department of Homeland Securities had to tighten things up a bit and unfortunately, it is the innocent people that are bearing the brunt.
Before the January reforms, the US had introduced what it called the "Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004," under which the Congress ordered the State Department to establish a visa and passport security programme in its missions abroad including Nigeria which was singled out for special attention as far back as 2006 and later declared as a country of interest in terrorist activities in 2009.
With the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, the Congress equally mandated the State Department to establish a visa and passport security programmers overseas.
Diplomatic community
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