State Department
State Department

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-05-29

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9781720362272

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State Department: Improvements Needed to Strengthen U.S. Passport Fraud Detection Efforts

State Department
State Department

Author: U S Government Accountability Office (G

Publisher: BiblioGov

Published: 2013-06

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781289143398

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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

Gao-05-477 State Department
Gao-05-477 State Department

Author: United States Government Accountability Office

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-29

Total Pages: 50

ISBN-13: 9781984328977

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GAO-05-477 State Department: Improvements Needed to Strengthen U.S. Passport Fraud Detection Efforts

Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings
Smuggling and Trafficking in Human Beings

Author: Sheldon X. Zhang

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2007-07-30

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0313065411

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Coming to America to make a better life has long been a dream of many from around the world, even if it means being smuggled into the country to gain entry. This book examines how human smuggling and trafficking activities to the United States are carried out and explores the legal and policy challenges of dealing with these problems. Zhang covers the scope and patterns of global human trafficking and smuggling activities; the strategies and methods employed by various groups to bring individuals into the United States; major smuggling routes and venues; the involvement of organized criminal organizations in transnational human smuggling activities; and the challenges confronting the U.S. government in combating these activities.

Department of State
Department of State

Author: Gregory D. Kutz

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13: 1437914578

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A genuine U.S. passport permits its owner to travel freely in and out of the U.S., prove U.S. citizenship, obtain further identification documents, and set up bank accounts, among other things. The auditor was asked to proactively test the effectiveness of State's passport issuance process to determine whether the process is vulnerable to fraud. The investigation shows that terrorists or criminals could steal an American citizen's identity, use basic counterfeiting skills to create fraudulent documentation for that identity, and obtain a genuine U.S. passport from the Dept. of State. The auditor conducted 4 tests simulating this approach and was successful in obtaining a genuine U.S. passport in each case.