According to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Validation Instrument for Business Enterprises (VIBE) program is a web-based tool that is designed to help USCIS more efficiently and uniformly adjudicate certain employment-based immigration petitions and applications. Essentially, VIBE uses commercially available data from Dun & Bradstreet, an independent information provider (IIP) to validate basic information about companies or organizations who are seeking to employ foreign nationals. Some of the information that USCIS receives through the VIBE program includes:
· Type of business
· Financial standing, in terms of sales volume and credit standing
· Number of employees
· Types of offices
· Type of legal entity, date of establishment, and identification of company executives
By having this information immediately available from the IIP, USCIS can avoid having to solely rely on paper information provided by the petitioning company, which may be insufficient, in some cases. USCIS uses this information to ensure that the company is qualified to employ the foreign national as requested.
What is the VIBE Program?
USCIS does not rely exclusively on the information provided by VIBE in making its decisions on employment-based immigration petitions. Rather, it uses the information in conjunction with the information provided by the employer in its application to make decisions. If there are vast inconsistencies between the information provided by VIBE and by the employer, then USCIS will contact the employer to clarify and obtain additional information as needed. Once USCIS receives this information, it will make a decision on the application based on the totality of the circumstances.
While a private U.S. company or organization is not required to update its information with the IIP, Dun & Bradstreet, the company can create, verify, or correct the information that the IIP has. This can help minimizing inconsistences between the data that the IIP provides to USCIS and what the employer provides in its application.
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