TRANSACTION PRIORITIES

     Incoming electronic transactions to IAFIS must have a means to identify the required priority. The ANSI standard establishes four priority levels in the Transaction Priority (PRY) field of the Type-1 record. The EFTS will use this field to identify the relative processing priority of incoming transactions (Level 1 is highest priority).

The assignment of priorities will be as follows:

Table A-1. Priorities

1 Reserved.

2 Ten-print fingerprint data files shall be updated within 2 hours of the update decision.

3 Reserved.

4 Latent submission responses and latent remote search responses shall be transmitted within 1 day after initiation of search on IAFIS.Latent responses (i.e., LSR, NAR, ULM) for electronic submissions andremote responses (i.e., SLR) will be transmitted for the latent searches shown above.

5 The response time for retrieval of 100 fingerprint images or less shall not exceed one day.The response istransmitted in individual messages.

6 The response time for retrieval of 101 to 1000 fingerprint image sets may exceed 24 hours. The response is
transmitted in individual messages.

     Reassignment of priorities may be made based on workload conditions and special processing requests. Reassignment has no effect if IAFIS is not busy. An example of a valid reassignment would be a Criminal Ten-Print Submission (No Answer Necessary) transaction that is normally a 24-hour turnaround but can be reassigned (or submitted at higher priority) to Level 3 because the contributor is not affected. Additionally, urgent Level 2’s may be received, in which case they are reassigned to Level 1, for such cases as certain AMN or special unknown deceased.