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On Monday the U.S. began fingerprinting and photographing certain foreign travellers arriving at more than 100 U.S. airports.
Where's the announcement of this ? I do not like this at all.
It's making me reconsider my forthcoming trip to the US, scheduled for 2 weeks time. I certainly don't want to be fingerprinted OR photographed everytime I land at an airport, just to visit the USA.
I'm sorry but I think this step is ridiculous.
The 27 fingerprint exempt countries are:
Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Portugal and Singapore.
"I think there's going to be lots of changes as time goes on,'' said Nat Aycox, head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in San Francisco. He noted that by Oct. 26, all 27 countries exempted from the new program would be required to have citizens' fingerprints encoded in new passports.
On Monday the U.S. began fingerprinting and photographing certain foreign travellers arriving at more than 100 U.S. airports.
Where's the announcement of this ? I do not like this at all.
It's making me reconsider my forthcoming trip to the US, scheduled for 2 weeks time. I certainly don't want to be fingerprinted OR photographed everytime I land at an airport, just to visit the USA.
I'm sorry but I think this step is ridiculous.
The 27 fingerprint exempt countries are:
Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brunei, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, San Marino, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, Portugal and Singapore.
"I think there's going to be lots of changes as time goes on,'' said Nat Aycox, head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in San Francisco. He noted that by Oct. 26, all 27 countries exempted from the new program would be required to have citizens' fingerprints encoded in new passports.
