Professional Documents
Culture Documents
August 1, 2003
Karl Hofmann
Executive Secretary
Attachments:
1. State Department documents
2. Incoming Request
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FROM: CA - Maura
Recommendation
1 AUG 2003
Attachments:
Tab I - Memorandum to Mr. Eldridge.
Tab 2 - Incoming Request from the Commission.
Tab 3 - Index of State Department Responses to Items 8, 13 and 17.
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Lee H. Hamilton The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (the
VICE CHAIR
"Commission") requests that the Department of State (DOS or the "respondent")
Richard Ben-Veniste
provide the Commission with copies of the following documents no later than July 8,
Max Cleland 2003 (the "production date"):
Fred F. Fielding
1. All materials provided by the State Department to the Joint Inquiry.
Jimie S. Gotelick
Slade Gorton
2. All documents provided by the State Department to the General Accounting Office
in connection with its investigation into the visa process which resulted in the
John Lehman report: Border Security: Visa Process Should be Strengthened as an Antiterrorism
' Timothy J. Roemer Tool, October 2002, GAO-03-132NI.
James R, Thompson
3. Copies of all visa applications (not redacted) and any supporting documents,
including information contained in computer databases, for all the 9/11 hijackers.
Philip D. Zelikow
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
4. All memoranda having to do with issuance of visas to the 9/11 hijackers.
5. Documents setting forth policy, procedure, evaluation criteria, and findings for the
Visa Express Program and any other programs expediting visa processing in force
from February 1993 to the present for Riyadh, Jeddah, Berlin, Dubai, and Abu
Dhabi posts.
6. Annual statistical summaries and analyses of visa applications (including for third-
country national applicants), average processing times, categories of visas,
refusals, and reasons for refusals (statutory provisions) for the period from 1995
through 2003 for Riyadh, Jeddah, Berlin, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi-posts.
7. Annual Reports of the Visa Office, and worldwide summary consular packages for
the period 1990-2003.
8. Documents setting forth the State Department's budget requests overall and for
Consular Affairs, Diplomatic Security, and Intelligence and Research (INR), and
the amounts appropriated by Congress and signed into law by the President for
those entities for fiscal years 1998-2004.
9. Documents describing the State Department's Border Security Program for the
period fiscal years 1995-2004, including resources devoted to the program,
clearance processes, and automated consular system support.
10. Documents memorializing establishment and subsequent fee revisions of the machine readable visa
(MRV) program, MRV fee, and related automation.
11. Memoranda to "7th Floor" principals, for the period 1993 to 2003, discussing policy priorities guidance
with respect .to the issuance of visas, generally; the visa waiver policy; or visa and migration issues in
relations with the following countries: Afghanistan, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Malaysia, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi
Arabia, and Yemen.
12. Documents, including memoranda, cables, and portions of the Foreign Affairs Manual setting forth the
procedures to be followed and the amount and kind of evidence needed to deny a visa on terrorism
grounds under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended, from 1998 to 2003.
13. Documents issued since the inception of the Visa Waiver Program at the level of Assistant Secretary or
above setting forth policy and procedures on the implementation of the program and any subsequent
modifications to it.
14. Policy guidance sent to posts after 9/11/01 setting forth changes to visa and refugee policy and procedures
as a result of the events of 9/11/01.
15. All blank visa and refugee application forms used by posts and instructions to the field introduced after
9/11/01.
16. Documents describing efforts by State, alone or on an interagency basis, since 9/11/01, to reassess visas
issued prior to 9/11/01 in order to determine whether any such visas had been issued to terrorist-affiliated
aliens.
17. Documents summarizing training initiatives or briefings for consular officers instituted after 9/11/01 on
counterterrorism, document fraud, and the CLASS system.
18. Documents setting forth policies and procedures implementing the Enhanced Border Security and Visa
Entry Reform Act of 2002.
19. Documents, including telegrams to the field, to and from officials at the level of Assistant Secretary or
above setting forth policy and procedure statements regarding the visa referral program since 1998.
The Commission requests that the documents requested above be provided as soon as they are available,
even though all requested documents may not be provided at the same time, through means of a "rolling"
production.
If any requested documents are withheld from production, even temporarily, based on an alleged claim of
privilege or for any other reason, the Commission requests that the respondent, as soon as possible and in
no event later than the production date, identify and describe each such document or class of documents, as
well as the alleged basis for not producing it, with sufficient specificity to allow a meaningful challenge to
any such withholding.
DOS Document Request No. 2
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If the respondent does not have possession, custody or control of any requested documents but has
information about where such documents may be located, the Commission requests that the respondent
provide such information as soon as possible and in no event later than the production date.
If the respondent has any questions or concerns about the interpretation or scope of these document
requests, the Commission requests that any such questions or concerns be raised with the Commission as
soon as possible so that any such issues can be addressed and resolved prior to the production date.