Legislation introduced by Miller

Once the entry has been successfully filed an applicant will receive a unique confirmation number which will allow the person to check back with the website's entrant status check in May of 2014 to see if the entry has been selected for a visa.  That is the only way an applicant can discover if an entry has been selected, so the confirmation number must be kept in a secure place. From her perch as chair of a House homeland security subcommittee, U.S. Rep. Candice Miller is pushing for implementation of a key 9/11 Commission recommendation that would help keep tabs on illegal immigrants who overstay their visa.

Legislation introduced by Miller, which would create a high-tech fingerprint identification system at airports and sea ports, received support this week from Department of Homeland Security officials at a meeting of the congresswoman's Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security.The DHS conceded that it has no idea how many people are in the United States illegally after ignoring the time limitations on student,China Work Visa application work or tourism visas. One estimate indicates that 40 percent of the nation's 12 million illegal immigrants never snuck across a U.S. border but simply violated the rules of a valid visa.

"We know pretty well who's coming in but we … have people who come here, overstay their visas and then disappear somewhere into the United States," said Miller, a Harrison Township Republican. "This … is a significant security lapse. We're just not tracking them."Fingerprints and photographs are taken of visa visitors upon entry into the United States,China Student Visa application Miller said, but the DHS cannot match up that information upon exit from the country. As a result, the department currently has a backlog of more than 1 million "unmatched" records due to the lack of exit information on those whose visas have expired.