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Thursday, November 30, 2006

GAO audits find files on immigrants go missing

By Kelly Thornton
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

November 30, 2006

Immigration officials have misplaced or lost tens of thousands of immigration files in 14 of the nation's busiest districts, and the San Diego office is among the worst offenders, according to congressional investigators.

In a report released yesterday, the Government Accountability Office found those districts processed as many as 30,000 citizenship applications last year without the necessary files.

The GAO report cited internal audits in 2005 that found 21 percent of files were not where they were supposed to be in the Citizenship and Immigration Services' San Diego office.

A summary of the San Diego audit described the number of misplaced or lost “alien files,” or A-files, as “staggering.” Most of those files – 11,731 of the local office's 56,092 – are missing because they were not adequately tracked when received or transferred to other offices, according to the report.

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