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USCIS Advises on Failure to Register for NSEERS

Posted by Karen-Lee Pollak on Sat, Apr 28, 2012 @ 10:08 AM

On April 28, 2011, through a notice published in the Federal Register, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) removed the list of countries whose nationals have been subject to NSEERS registration and reporting requirements. The notice also announced that DHS would no longer register aliens under the NSEERS program. It did not give guidance on how DHS Components should treat aliens' past failure to comply with special registration and reporting provisions. This memorandum (copy attached docs/nseers.pdf) provides this guidance and also clarifies that, as of April 28, 2011 -DHS has suspended all special registration and reporting requirements associated with the NSEERS program. This suspension applies to all aliens previously subject to NSEERS requirements, whether or not the alien was a national of one of the previously designated countries and regardless of the underlying basis for the alien's inclusion in the NSEERS program.  Unless failure to register for NSEERS was willful, there will not be any adverse consequences for failure to register. This suspension applies to all aliens previously subject to NSEERS requirements, whether or not the alien was a national of one of the previously designated countries and regardless of the underlying basis for the aliens inclusion in the NSEERS program.

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DHS Abolishes NSEers Registration Requirements | Immigration

Posted by Karen Pollak on Thu, Apr 28, 2011 @ 10:54 PM

Today, April 28, 2011, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it is eliminating redundant programs by removing the following countries from, and relieving nonimmigrant nationals or citizens of the following countries from compliance with, the special registration procedures under the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS): Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. Over the past six years, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has implemented several new automated systems that capture arrival and exit information on nonimmigrant travelers to the United States, and DHS has determined that recapturing this data manually when a nonimmigrant is seeking admission to the United States is redundant and no longer provides any increase in security. DHS, therefore, has determined that it is no longer necessary to subject nationals from these countries to special registration procedures, and this notice deletes all currently designated countries from NSEERS compliance.

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