US to Fingerprint Green Card Holders Soon
The US Department of Homeland Security is to announce fingerprinting of all permanent resident ‘aliens’, also known as green card holders, arriving at US from foreign trips.
“Biometrics has revolutionised our ability to prevent dangerous people from entering the US. Our upgrade to 10-fingerprint collection builds on our success enabling us to focus more attention on stopping potential security risks” the press release said.
Collecting 10 fingerprints also improves fingerprint matching accuracy and the department’s ability to compare visitor’s fingerprints against latent fingerprints collected by the Department of Defence (DOD) and the FBI from known and unknown terrorists all over the world. Additionally, visitors’ fingerprints are checked against FBI’s Criminal Master File also referred as CMF.
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