Immigration Documents on Chain Pt.2

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

The solution we are still developing from F8 is to have an owner of their immigration documents mint NFTs, or otherwise translate their credentials, onto Atala/PRISM that a U.S. univ. then processes

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

I started IT development and support in early 1990, eventually moved to media production, and in 2015: back to IT in International Education. I supervise immigration compliance at the Univ. of Arkansas, and have been studying blockchain dev for a few years. CTO of a few companies

[GENERAL] Requested funds in USD.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

PHASE TWO:

To continue the development of Phase One into solid integration at the University of Arkansas to replace their immigration document check system with the one developed in Phase One of this project in Fund 8.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

We will work with open source solutions so as to not to reinvent the wheel. We are closely looking at the Roots Wallet and ID project, and intend our solution to use their app as a use case.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

/We are going to circumvent the need to have governments as the issuer of the credentials: instead focusing on the possessor of the credentials, and they would "issue" their own credential onto the chain. Most likely then the Issuer and the Holder are the same, with the Verifiers being universities that will look at the submitted credentials, and then become an Issuer of either an I-20 or DS-2019 depending on the visa status needed to confer.

The risk is in forming the "trust triangle" above for it involves immigration compliance concerns.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

Roots Wallet is close in having a way for us to start working through these use cases. We have built Angular components to handle a document check process, but this still involves a centralized server where documents are uploaded to. We now need to work to decentralize this process nearing completion from Fund 8.

We were aiming for a Fall rollout, but it looks more like the Spring 2023 semester would be more feasible to aim for a use case using real immigration documents.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

$3,900 is allocated to assist with paying people like Jim St. Clair consulting fees that can provide insights to our use cases, as well as my own time spent in developing the materials, code, and other needed items for our use cases and documentation of those efforts and accomplishments.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Steven Sevic

https://www.linkedin.com/in/stevensevic/

CA/vCA, and have been involved in Catalyst since Fund 6.

Currently in IT support in International Education for the University of Arkansas, and as CTO of International Office Consulting. I both oversee data feeds to and from universities and the Department of Homeland Security in the United States. I have been a CA since Fund 6, and a CA/vCA since Fund 7, in Catalyst, and have been studying blockchain development for a few years.

Jim St. Clair

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimstclair/

Jim is a 2019 and 2020 FedHealthIT 100 winner, and is also active in the Healthcare Committee for the Government Blockchain Association, and member of the HIMSS Healthcare Blockchain Working Group. He is an advisor to multiple healthcare Blockchain start-ups, and guest lectures on Blockchain and technology at Universities and Industry.

Jim has worked with large and small companies focusing on Agile development and project management, cyber security and healthcare information technology. Prior to that, Jim was Senior Director for Interoperability at HIMSS, a cause-based, not-for-profit organization exclusively focused on providing global leadership for the optimal use of information technology (IT) and management systems for the betterment of healthcare.

Jim is a veteran and former naval officer, having served in both active and reserve capacity.

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

This will be the last round of funding for this project of placing immigration documents onto the Cardano blockchain.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

GitHub, or other publicly and open sourced available resources, contributions in both document and source code is provided at the end of the project. Discord and other publicly available social media communities should also be formed to present these materials, and then for me to field questions thereafter.

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

Ultimate success is for an university in the United States to implement the research formed and presented by this project enough to have a prototype or a minimum viable product (MVP) produced at their institutions to then contribute back to the public project.

The basic successful process would be an international student or scholar, say from Rwanda, place their documents into this implemented system, the university to then confirm these documents and able to download them, and then for that university to use this system for this purpose to be confident to allow this student to continue their studies at their universities confident their international students or scholars are in positive immigration status.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is the second part (of a two part project) started in Fund 8: https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/398633