Category Archives: immigration

Immigration History Research Center

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https://cla.umn.edu/ihrc/immigrant-stories

Immigrant Stories helps recent immigrants and refugees create digital stories: brief videos with images, text, and audio about a personal experience. The IHRC shares and preserves these digital stories for future generations through the IHRC Archives, the Minnesota Digital Library, and the Digital Public Library of America.

Over 215 stories representing more than 45 different communities are now part of the Immigrant Stories Collection. A National Endowment for the Humanities grant is now helping us collect stories with our story-making website.

Immigration modernization

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Immigration modernization a work in progress

By Mark Rockwell  Mar 16, 2017

https://fcw.com/articles/2017/03/16/uscis-systems-rockwell.aspx

Bringing paper-based systems at CIS into the digital world “remains a substantial work in progress,” said Lori Scialabba, CIS acting director at a House Homeland Security Oversight.

Using agile processes, Roth said, requires some technical expertise on the part of the agency. That technical expertise at CIS, he said, was thin. Also communications to top agency officials about potential problems weren’t efficient, which left those officials in the dark.

“If you put it out and it breaks, then pull it back, that’s not agile,” Roth said.