Foreign Traveler ID System Underway
A new U.S. program designed to enhance border security will require foreign travelers from all but Western Europe and a few other countries to take part in a new biometric ID program. The program, called US-VISIT, or U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology, will digitally photograph and fingerprint millions of people who visit the United States each year on tourist, business and student visas. Photographs will be used to help create a database for law enforcement. US-VISIT is slated to begin operation January 5.
Airports to fingerprint international visitors
CNN, December 23, 2003
