EGIS-PMT: Payment Transaction Data for U.S. Immigration Benefit Processing

The dataset describes the Enterprise Gateway Integration Services-Payment Service (PMT), an intermediary system for payment transactions between U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Pay.gov. It was last updated on March 22, 2026, and is published by the Department of Homeland Security. The data likely contains transaction status and settlement information for payments required for immigration benefit processing.

Use Cases

• Modeling payment transaction status flows based on the described intermediary role.
• Analyzing settlement information distribution patterns based on the described consumption from Pay.gov.
• Studying system integration patterns for government financial services based on the described gateway function.

Strengths

• Explicitly states it does not store personally identifiable information (PII) or financial account details.
• Published by the authoritative source, the Department of Homeland Security.
• Last update timestamp is precisely documented as 2026-03-22 11:53:50.916650.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count, file formats, and sample data are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Department of Homeland Security

Collection Method

Likely operational data from the Enterprise Gateway Integration Services (EGIS) system.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the input.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-22 11:53:50.916650; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Spatial coverage is not specified, but the system is for U.S. immigration services.