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Yet another unfeasible proposal made by Trump is to complete an entry-exit biometric visa system.
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Most migrants from outside the European Union are already required to have a biometric visa linked to a central database before they can travel to Britain.
Or take our outdated visa system.
Why not just change the visa system?
For example, the fingerprinting infrastructure and database has been commissioned and will form part of the surveillance system attached to biometric visas, which has been successfully sold (with just a hint of xenophobia) as "ID cards for foreigners".
At Croydon, to the south of the capital, hundreds of people queuing for biometric visas or permits were told to go home because the UKBA system could not cope.
Verifying their identities using biometric visas would have made no difference.Worse, spending the billions of dollars that the GAO estimates will be necessary to implement biometric systems at border-crossing points—$1.4 billion to $2.9 billion initially, and $700m to $1.5 billion annually thereafter may mean there is less to spend on other areas of security.
Still reeling from the horror of 9/11, the US is now demanding that all visa entrants hold biometric visas from the end of 2004.
Still, new research from the World Economic Forum and the Boston Consulting Group suggests that biometric identification will only become more prevalent as accuracy improves, eventually giving rise to a "fully automated" check-in, security, border-control and smart-visa system that could improve security and whittle down long lines at airports and borders.
A major technology trial designed to scrutinise the issuance and subsequent verification of chip-based multi-biometric visas has just got underway in Europe.
The implications of this susceptibility to spoofing [ 19– 21]—defeating a biometric system through fake biometric samples include the following [ 22].
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