Title 8, Chapter 15 — Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform

Definitions

Authorization of appropriations for hiring and training Government personnel

Authorization of appropriations for improvements in technology and infrastructure

Machine-readable visa fees

Surcharges related to consular services

Consular and Border Security Programs

State Border Security Reinforcement Fund

Interim measures for access to and coordination of law enforcement and other information

Interoperable law enforcement and intelligence data system with name-matching capacity and training

Commission on Interoperable Data Sharing

Personnel management authorities for positions involved in the development and implementation of the interoperable electronic data system (“Chimera system”)

Implementation of an integrated entry and exit data system

Machine-readable, tamper-resistant entry and exit documents

Terrorist lookout committees

Improved training for consular officers

Restriction on issuance of visas to nonimmigrants from countries that are state sponsors of international terrorism

Check of lookout databases

Tracking system for stolen passports

Identification documents for certain newly admitted aliens

Study of the feasibility of a North American National Security Program

Staffing levels at ports of entry

Model ports-of-entry

Joint United States-Canada projects for alternative inspections services

Foreign student monitoring program

Review of institutions and other entities authorized to enroll or sponsor certain nonimmigrants

General Accounting Office study

International cooperation

Statutory construction

Annual report on aliens who fail to appear after release on own recognizance

Retention of nonimmigrant visa applications by the Department of State

Training program

Establishment of Human Smuggling and Trafficking Center

Vulnerability and threat assessment