Word: kpmg
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...revenue will help to maintain SEVIS, as the law providing for the database outlined—$100 is unnecessarily high. The U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, which had overseen SEVIS, was folded into the DHS in March, but seven months earlier, in August 2002, they had hired KPMG Consulting to determine a practical per-international-student fee to maintain the database. The firm found that the fee could safely fall well below the original Congressional ceiling of $95 and that only $54 per student was needed to cover the costs of the program...
...DHS’s proposed figure, which international students would pay in addition to greater visa processing fees, exceeds both the $95 Congress recommended as a reasonable upper limit for the charge and the $54 fee projected as sufficient by KPMG Consulting, an independent consulting firm that the DHS hired a year ago. The firm devised its figure from consideration of the nearly $40 million that the USA Patriot Act allotted toward the creation of a tracking databases...
...governmental agency has said that the KPMG report did not take all necessary considerations into account in calculating the $54 figure, according to Sharon R. Ladd, director of the Harvard International Office (HIO). Proceeds from the charges will be used to fund SEVIS, a year-old national database that tracks personal data and academic information about non-immigrants presently studying in the U.S. on student visas...
...Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, stepped up pressure on GSA to do something. McKenna said employees in that division are walled off from outside pressure. The decision Thursday to suspend MCI relied on earlier reports from individuals hired by the company to do internal inquiries, as well as KPMG, MCI?s outside auditor. White House officials said they did not pressure GSA on the matter...
...maintained that its darkest days were over when it cleansed its corporate suites of such executives as former CEO Bernard Ebbers. But just last week, MCI's outside auditor, KPMG, testified before a Senate committee that it still could not vouch for the company's internal controls. GSA cited a KPMG report as well as reviews of the company conducted by former Attorney General Richard Thornburgh and William McLucas as being decisive factors in its decision to suspend the carrier...