On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:39:59AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > Andreas Tille dijo [Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:51:21AM +0200]: > > Well, I understand your frustration about several things said here. But I > > might > > add another reason which is probably neutral about US behaviour about > > visitors: I have to apply for a passport that includes my fingerprint if I > > want > > to go to US. But I also do not really like to have my own government to > > keep > > my fingerprint in their databases. If I want to avoid this I can not > > attend a > > DebConf in US (and so I do not consider attending). > > AFAICT, at least from my experience (rules may differ for Europeans, > as you don't need a separate visa), this point is not true. Mexican > passports have never had fingerprints on, even though my government > has them on several other official documents. > > USA visas do, however - My visa has my fingerprints and photos encoded > in it. Maybe that's the reason they won't require us such a passport - > because they trust more their visas than our passports :) > FWIW, I have a valid spanish passport for travelling to the US and it has not included my fingerprints. OTOH, my goverment already has my fingerprint recorded because they are/were compulsory in our ID card.
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