State Department : pervasive passport fraud not identified, but cases of potentially fraudulent and high-risk issuances are under review : report to Congressional requesters.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.

Contributor:

Lord, Stephen M.

Standardized Title:

State Department (2014 May)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Department of State--Rules and practice--Evaluation.

United States.

United States. Department of State.

Passports--United States.

Passports.

Fraud--United States.

Fraud.

False personation--United States.

False personation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ii, 43 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Pervasive passport fraud not identified, but cases of potentially fraudulent and high-risk issuances are under review

Department of State passport services

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2014.

Summary:

Fraudulent passports pose a significant risk because they can be used to conceal the true identity of the user and potentially facilitate other crimes, such as international terrorism and drug trafficking. State issued over 13.5 million passports during fiscal year 2013. GAO was asked to assess potential fraud in State's passport program. This report examines select cases of potentially fraudulent or high-risk issuances among passports issued during fiscal years 2009 and 2010, the most recently available data at the time GAO began its review. GAO matched State's passport data from fiscal years 2009 and 2010 for approximately 28 million issuances to databases with information about individuals who were deceased, incarcerated in state and federal prison facilities, or who had an active warrant at the time of issuance. GAO also analyzed the passport data to identify issuances to applicants who provided a likely invalid SSN, which had not been assigned at the time of the passport application, or had been publically disclosed. From each of these five populations, GAO selected nongeneralizable samples for additional review. GAO also randomly selected a generalizable sample from a population of passport issuances to applicants who used only the SSN of a deceased individual. GAO reviewed State's adjudication policies, and examined passport applications for these populations to further assess whether there were potentially fraudulent or high-risk issuances. State provided technical comments and generally agreed with our findings. This report contains no recommendations.

Notes:

"May 2014."

Includes bibliographical references.

Online resource; title from PDF cover page (GAO, viewed January 7, 2015).

"GAO-14-222."

OCLC:

899269301