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Basic Issues For The I 130 Marriage Based Study

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This paper documents the basic issues for the I-130 Marriage-based Study and some of the challenges which hamper the swift execution of the study. The paper begins with a brief description of the study purpose, follows by important definition of key study concepts for marriage-based IBFA and a discussion for the sample size needed to execute the study optimally. Recommendation solutions are provided at the end of the paper on how to specify the roles for OP&S and each stakeholder and members of the Technical Working Group to assist and ensure the successful execution of the study.

Purpose of the IBFA Pilot Study (For details see IFRET’s White Paper)

Fraud estimate: The primary purpose of the pilot IBFA study is to fulfill Congressional request for USCIS to estimate a defensible “true” benefit-fraud rate within the Form I-130 marriage-based petitions.
• Utility and benefits for USCIS
• Estimate the actual resources required by USCIS if all suspected cases are investigated by Immigration offices and compared to the actual allocated resources for fraud detection
• Exploratory research: IFRET has designed the IBFA study with an objective to examine the sample characteristics, such as an overstayed visa status of the beneficiaries or non-cohabitating couples, so that a statistical model can be used to estimate the probability of fraud for the population given the sample characteristics.
• Utility and benefits for USCIS: This data driven information will help USCIS

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