International Screening Solutions, Inc (ISS) is one of the few global background screening companies today that specializes in International Background Screening Services (IBSS). We focus on providing a full range of IBSS services such as compliance consulting, best practice solutions design, delivery of pre-employment screening, vendor screening and enhanced due diligence services in over 192 countries around the globe.
Case Studies
Here are a few case studies of global organizations we have worked with to build and manage their global screening programs.
Contingent Workforce
Assisted a global telecommunications company which had contracted with local staffing agencies located throughout Western Europe and the Asia-Pacific region to pre-screen local contingent workforces. This required us to develop a program that could be administered by in-country staffing agencies, many of which did not speak English, and enable them to comply with the prime contractor’s HR and security requirements.
US Government
Assisted a US Government defense contractor on a project with the US State Dept to develop an embassy security force in Baghdad, Iraq. The contract required the screening of over 500 foreign national candidates from Asia-Pacific, Australia, Canada, South Africa and the UK as they applied for sensitive security positions at the US embasssy. Forty percent of the applicant pool came back with criminal convictions including fraud, manslaughter, and homicide.
Foreign Government
Due to increased pressure from International Maritime Authorities, the US State Department contractor supporting Lithuanian Port Authorities requested our assistance in setting up a locally-based screening program in order for the Port to meet International Ship and Port Facility Security (ISPS) Codes, as well as Safety of Life at Sea (SOLAS Convention) security requirements. All 1,200 local national on-board ship and local port workers entering the port were screened by our program.
Maritime
A deep-sea cruise liner requested our help to meet strict USCG Merchant Mariner Security background check requirements so that all crew members were pre-approved prior to entering any US port. Many crew members were already serving on board one of their ships. As such, the project required us to design a system setting up temporary on board processing stations to assist crew members with their merchant mariner documents as ships came into port. We thenb processed over 1,500 crew member Merchant Mariner license documents from over 100 countries around the world.
Financial Services
A US-based financial institution requested a re-investigation of over 1,000 local national bank employees in Mexico after the local institution failed its annual financial services audit. The audit determined the firm’s previous background checks performed by a previous provider to be sub-standard based on regulatory and quality control measures. We were asked and did deliver a comprehensive re-investigation of all existing Mexican National staff members to the banks’ industry standards.