# Fraud Prevention and Detection Account

**Agency:** Homeland Security  
**Account:** Fraud Prevention and Detection Account  
**Source document:** U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services · p. 4  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/homeland-security/fraud-prevention-and-detection-account  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 46.0 |
| FY2026 | CR annualized | 43.5 |
| FY2027 | request | 43.5 |

The prior-year column is a CR annualized figure, not an enacted appropriation.


## Homeland Security discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.40B, FY2026 $88.60B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget includes $112.9M; 321 positions; and 287 Full-Time Equivalents (FTE) in discretionary budget authority for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The FY 2027 Budget also estimates $7.3B; 24,746 positions; and 22,375 FTE in total mandatory budget authority for the Immigration Examinations Fee Account (IEFA), the H-1B Nonimmigrant Petitioner Account, EB-5 Integrity Fund, and the Fraud Prevention and Detection Account. The funding enables USCIS to meet its mission requirements, including the following: ' Strengthen and effectively administer the immigration system. ' Strengthen National security safeguards and combat fraud. ' Reinforce quality and consistency in administering immigration benefits. Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services The FY 2027 discretionary funding supports the E-Verify Program. E-Verify is a web-based system that allows enrolled employers to confirm the eligibility of their employees to work in the United States. The Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program is funded within IEFA. Due to the similarities between E-Verify and SAVE, both programs use the Verification Information System and secondary IT systems and services. Shared costs are distributed between the two programs. USCIS is incorporating a phased-in user fee increase to $3.10 per verification request, regardless of whether the case involves additional verification requests. USCIS also eliminated fees for non-federal agencies to expand the use of SAVE in FY 2025 and FY 2026. USCIS expects this to continue Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Homeland Security › U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services › Fraud Prevention and Detection Account


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*