As you may know, the agency will be executing a new nation-wide Immigration Benefit Fraud Assessment (IBFA) study, which will begin this fall. IBFA was formerly known as the Benefit Fraud Assessment (BFA) or Benefit Fraud Compliance Assessment. OP&S is collaborating with representatives from FDNS, FOD, SCOPS, and OP&S staff to execute the study. Chris Dombek and Taeho Jinn are our POCs from FDNSHQ.
The study will include 200 to 240 newly received I-130 case files. All these cases will need to be recorded in FDNS-DS. We are requesting that the existing BFA field in the FDNS-DS (created for the former BFCAs) be re-activated. In addition, to minimize time required of IO to fill in each record, it will be prudent to have a batch