The Washington Post has reported that the Bush administration has taken a major decision of the nation's immigration services agency, selecting an industrial society led by IBM to reorganize how the government can handle out 7 million applications of visas, citizenship and approval to work in the United States each year.

The efforts to change United States Citizenship and Immigration service's case-management system from paper-based to electronic is a $500 million plan, which can reduce backlogs and processing delays at least 20 percent.

IT would also help them save time and labor-intensive filling and re-filling of paper forms, which are stored at 200 different locations in the United States in 70 million manila file folders.