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ELIS - Electronic Immigration System

Metadata Updated: February 23, 2026

The USCIS Transformation Program (Transformation), a DHS Level 1 Acquisition Program, was established to modernize USCIS operations away from paper and towards electronic end-to-end benefits case management and adjudication. The result is ELIS – USCIS’ Electronic Immigration System. ELIS is central to a core group of USCIS systems that provide mission essential capabilities that deliver case intake and account management, benefits case processing and electronic document management integrate with mission essential USCIS systems and services. Enhance adjudicator effectiveness by ensuring all relevant data is available and accurate for decisions. Provide advanced capabilities for fraud detection, national security, and customer service. Transformation’s outcome-oriented focus guided ELIS delivery toward improving decision effectiveness, increasing security, decreasing case adjudication and lead times, integrating with mission essential systems, decreasing legacy system maintenance, reducing dependency on paper, and increasing USCIS full electronic case workload.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date February 9, 2026
Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2026

Metadata Source

Harvested from DHS datajson source

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date February 9, 2026
Metadata Updated Date February 23, 2026
Publisher Unspecified
Maintainer
Identifier USCIS-10056-MAJ-10056
Data Last Modified 2026-02-10T23:00:56-05:00
Public Access Level non-public
Bureau Code 024:030
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Harvest Object Id 1433d7b2-c116-4cea-b0c9-7b802bc04a16
Harvest Source Id 803bdba9-bfcb-453c-ae2a-ed81f240ff5a
Harvest Source Title DHS datajson source
License https://www.usa.gov/government-works
Program Code 024:000
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash b8a43e3677c7cb4f6a0a2195990f2814979c446e0262ce9ed2f0cd61125fadfa
Source Schema Version 1.1

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