AI now helps decide who may enter or stay. AVAAS certifies the system at the point the decision reaches a person.
USCIS immigration adjudication, State Department visa decisions, and identity verification increasingly lean on automated analysis. These are rights-affecting determinations, and a wrong output can separate a family or strand someone abroad. AVAAS certifies the system at the decision point.
The decision point in adjudication
In immigration and visa work, the AI acts when it scores an application, flags potential fraud, verifies an identity, or prioritizes a case. A wrong output changes the course of a person's life.
Immigration and benefits adjudication are rights-affecting determinations. A model cannot be the sole decision-maker, and due process still applies.
What keeps agencies exposed
Federal duties attach to the decision
OMB M-25-21 names immigration and benefits adjudication high-impact, requiring pre-deployment testing, monitoring, and a human decision-maker before the system can stay in use.
Constitutional claims are already in court
Suits allege First, Fourth, and Fourteenth Amendment violations from AI-driven enforcement, and federal judges in Los Angeles found that agents engaged in racial profiling.
A wrong match reaches the wrong person
Mobile Fortify and similar tools verify identity against federal databases, and misidentification falls hardest on people of color. The result can be an enforcement action against the wrong person.
Evidence the determination is sound
Is the determination explainable and reviewable?
AVAAS evaluates whether the system produces reasons a person and a reviewer can examine, rather than an opaque output.
Is a human decision-maker in control?
AVAAS evaluates whether human oversight is meaningful at the point the determination is made.
Does it produce disparate outcomes?
Five structurally independent validators test for demographic disparity and failure patterns using causal attribution.
You get documented, third-party evidence that an adjudication or verification system meets the due-process and federal testing duties the public sector cannot delegate to a model.
Related AVAAS coverage: Certification · Evidence Ledger. Or run the free AI Exposure Assessment to see what applies to you.
See where your adjudication AI creates liability.
Tell us where automated analysis informs an immigration, visa, or identity decision, and we will scope an AVAAS certification to the exposure.
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