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FBI Name Check Primer
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I am not a lawyer and I cannot be held responsible for accuracy of the information below.
Please use this document at your own risk.
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Items in BLUE are those items about which I am making an intelligent guess and cannot be validated.
Name Check Explained
The Name Check’s official name is the National Name Check Program (NNCP). It is synonymous with FBI Background Check, Security Check etc. The National Name Check Program (NNCP) has the mission of disseminating information from the FBI's Central Records System in response to requests submitted by federal agencies, congressional committees, the federal judiciary, friendly foreign police and intelligence agencies, and state and local criminaljustice agencies. The Central Records System (CRS) contains the FBI's administrative, personnel and investigative files. The NNCP has grown exponentially, with more and more customers seeking background information from FBI files on individuals before bestowing a privilege - -
Whether that privilege is government employment or an appointment; a security clearance; attendance at a White House function; a Green card or naturalization; admission to the bar; or a visa for the privilege of visiting our homeland; more than 70 federal and state agencies regularly request an FBI name check. The USCIS is one of its biggest customers.
The name checks are handled at FBI Headquarters at Washington DC.
In my understanding a name check consists of running the applicant’s name and date of birth over multiple government records – not commercial records like credit reports etc. This will tell the agency if there has been any activity on your name ever i.e. if you were a convicted criminal, a witness in a federal case, a person who was investigated etc.
Name checks for Naturalization was initiated after Sept 11 2001. I am unsure if the program existed for Naturalization applicants before that time.
Many people report incredible lengths of delays with name checks. The reason for this is that the system (computerized system) is unable to conclude weather or not you are a person of interest.
An analyst has to then intervene. The reason could me multi fold like you having a very common name (Asian last names for example) or your name matches that of a person that FBI dealt within the past etc. This could take 1 day or over a year. Another reason for delays is that this department is grossly understaffed.
I think that the name check requests are sent after a finger print result is received. I just happened to notice this with many applicants.
Name check requests are automatically initiated by the Service Center and are done for all applicants. There is another check called the CIA check that is not done for Naturalization applicants. CIA check is done for I-485, Amnesty and other applicants.
When the system searches for your name and does not find any indices, it returns “NORECORD” as a result. This is what majority of people will have for a status. A “No-Record” means “No-Objection” from the part of the FBI for Naturalization.
However presence of a record by itself is not always adverse. Just means you have been involved somehow with something that FBI has a record on.
The Records name checks are supervised by Agent David Hardy who is the Chief of the Record/Information Dissemination Section in the Records Management Division (RMD).
Mr.Hardy’s boss is the Assistant Director, Records Management Division is William Hooton.
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