From Nextgov.com: Mismanagement, cost and schedule problems plague immigration system upgrade

Officials at Citizenship and Immigration Services awarded contract despite the failure of a demonstration pilot .

A Homeland Security Department program that was supposed to automate the processing of immigration papers still has not launched, after the agency responsible failed to complete a required pilot test and then continued to spend four years and more than $6 million to build the system.

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