North Tampa Housing Development Announcements

Important Information for SAVE Users

March 24, 2010

Important Information for SAVE Users!

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has streamlined the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. Beginning on May 1, 2010, you must have an updated ID and password to access the SAVE system

UNLESS

you already received a User ID and temporary Password since June 2009 from HUD. If so, no further action on your part is required.

Please DO NOT call or email HUD to verify that your ID and password are okay.

SAVE is a web-based automated verification system owned by DHS that consists of immigration status verification information. Authorized users of HUD’s Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) system who are also authorized to use the SAVE system are now able to access SAVE from EIV.

Owners and management agents must use the SAVE system to verify the validity of citizenship documents provided by applicants or tenants who are noncitizens and who claim eligible immigration status. This is to ensure that HUD’s rental assistance is provided only to eligible noncitizens. For reference, see Chapter 3, Paragraph 3-12.L of HUD Handbook 4350.3 REV-1, Occupancy Requirements of Multifamily Subsidized Housing Programs.

Last year, DHS streamlined the SAVE database and provided HUD with a one-time opportunity to ensure that one person at each of its assisted properties has access to the SAVE system. Any additional or new staff as well as staff that did not respond to the data upload request must respond now if they did not receive a User ID or temporary Password since June 2009, or starting on May 1, 2010, they will not be able to access the SAVE system.

What you must do to gain access!

If you do not have access to SAVE or have access and did NOT receive a new User ID and temporary Password since June 2009, please:

1) Send property, name, address, fax and phone number by email to: Kevin.X.Garner@hud.gov

2) The deadline for submission is April 15, 2010.

Already have access to SAVE?

As long as the person who has current access to SAVE was given an ID and temporary Password since June 2009, nothing else needs to be done. If not, the information requested above, must be sent in by April 15, 2010, in order to receive a new User ID and temporary Password by April 30, 2010.

Need more than one person to have access to SAVE?

Follow the instructions under “What you must do to gain access!” above.