Andrew Vanjani becomes CIO for USCIS

Vanjani has held several positions across federal and state agencies and will take over a position left vacant for nearly a year after former USCIS CIO Bill McElhaney departed in May.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which oversees lawful immigration from within the Department of Homeland Security, has a new chief information officer. 

Andrew Vanjani took over the position on Tuesday, he posted on his LinkedIn. Vanjani has previously worked within the General Services Administration, for the state of Maryland and mostly recently at the Organization of American States. 

The agency’s last CIO listed on its website, Bill McElhaney, left the agency last May, according to his LinkedIn. He had been the CIO since 2018.

Vanjani wrote in his LinkedIn post that he will be focused on leveraging emerging technology to combat fraud risks and designing future-ready infrastructure in his new role.

The agency has been focused on ...