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According to the DHS, the scanning adds on average only 15 seconds to the time it takes a visitor to go through Immigration. (An exception is made for Canadians and travellers who may visit the U.S. under the visa waiver program.) Upon exit, there also soon will be a “checkout” system whereby visitors will be able to repeat the digital “fingerscanning” at self-operated kiosks, thus confirming departure...
When at Customs my bag is thoroughly searched, I again worry about having the wrong profile. Scanning the countries I have visited on my trip, the officer casually asks if I plan to return to Pakistan after my one-year work visa expires. I say yes but quickly add, "to India, Officer." He seems uninterested, but it's important to me to make the clarification, not so much to appear less threatening but to reclaim my own version of myself...
...down many businesses in Port-au-Prince. MEANWHILE IN THE U.K. ... Ye Cannae Dae That To many, the Scottish lilt is charming and even rather attractive (think Sean Connery). But not, it seems, to the British Foreign Office, which was forced to apologize for denying a Russian student a visa to study English in Scotland on the grounds that she would have difficulty understanding the accent. What could they mean? When Scottish groundskeeper Willie from The Simpsons coined the expression "cheese-eating surrender monkeys," the whole world knew what he meant...
...system designed to cross-check the identities of foreign visa-holders entering the country became operational on Monday, slowing reentry into the U.S. for many international students returning to Harvard for exams...
...system, which Congress mandated following Sept. 11, requires most foreign visitors to be photographed and to undergo a biometric fingerprinting procedure as they enter the country. Security officials check the fingerprints against a database, allowing them to identify travellers with criminal histories who may have been overlooked during the visa-application process...