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Instructions and Help about application for identification card

MR. WAGNER: Thank you, and good afternoon. And thanks for having me back again at the Press Center. Very happy to come talk about our latest and greatest piece of innovation, the automation of the Form I-94. This is a continuation of efforts — we've been taking a real hard look at how we do things. We like to say we're being relentlessly self-critical in how we're analyzing our operations and really trying to find the best, most efficient, and most secure way to conduct business and process travelers arriving from international locations. So, programs like Global Entry, programs like our automated passport control kiosks that we're launching next week, automating paper forms like the I-94 — which we're going to talk about today — and processes like that, really just to give a better traveler experience, give a more efficient process overall, help CBP point our resources in the right areas, and really make the overall process a lot more secure for everyone. So, talking about the I-94 form, it's a — brought one here today. It's a white card that travelers who have a visa fill this out on the airplane. We looked at how this form was process and what we did with and what the costs were involved and the time it takes to actually fill this out and then for us to process it, and we saw there's some great efficiencies to gain by automating a lot of this data collection. So we worked with a lot of our partner agencies — Citizenship Immigration Services, Social Security Administration, and some other agencies, too, that rely on the information collected here, to figure out a process that makes it easier for the arriving traveler and easier for us as the government agency as well. So when the traveler fills out all of this information, CBP already has this information, because we get the airline manifests in advance of arrival, and we also get the Department of State visa application. So all that data is already collected on here. So for us to collect it again, we really didn't have a need for it at that point. But what travelers did need was the admission number that's the unique serial number on the form. And there's one in your packets, if you see it. That number is critical to engaging with other agencies once you're in the United States. So if you go to Citizenship and Immigration Services to apply for benefits, if you go to the Department of Motor Vehicle to apply for a driver's license, if your employer is filling out the I-9 form, and they ask for admission number, that's the number they're asking for. So we looked for a way where we could create this number electronically, and then we were trying to figure out a way to get it back to the traveler. So what we ended up coming with was developing a website where travelers, once they're processed into the United States, they can go to the website and, if they need this number, they can retrieve it by typing in their passport information at the website, and they can retrieve that admission number and...