Foreign Travelers Face Fingerprints and Jet Lag

[Adam Back]

I don't know if my info is still current (and I did not read the
article), but the last time I went to the US (early this year) my H1B
was no longer in effect (I quit microsoft last year, and H1B visas are
tied to employer), and I did not get fingerprinted.

However they had a camera and fingerprinting equipment, and notice
saying that if you _did_ have H1B and other such temporary US visa
documents you would be photographed and fingerprinted.

Adam

On Sun, Oct 03, 2004 at 10:18:24PM +1300, Peter Gutmann wrote:
> "R. A. Hettinga" <rah at shipwright.com> writes:
> 
> >NEWARK, Sept. 30 - Laetitia Bohn walked into Newark Liberty International
> >Airport on Thursday, dazed and sleepy after an eight-hour flight from Paris,
> >and was jolted from her reverie when an immigration officer asked for her
> >photograph and fingerprints along with her passport.
> 
> The US now has the dubious distinction of being more obnoxious to get through
> the borders than the former East Germany (actually even without this measure,
> the checks had become at least as obnoxious as the East German ones).  I
> wonder whether the next step will be building a wall...
> 
> Peter (who'll be thinking really hard about any future conference trips to the
>        US).