July 29, 2005
US-VISIT to Add RFID
Billion-dollar anti-terrorism initiative, US-VISIT, is about to receive an upgrade. Soon all United States-bound landed immigrants and non-Canadian citizens, who already are required to have a temporary Visa, must undergo additional RFID-related steps before entering the States. When crossing the land border, visitors will have to get finger scans and biometric digital photographs. Information from each person will be cross-referenced with FBI databases to ensure no one passing is linked to terrorist activities. The information will be stored on a card that visitors will obtain on their first entry across the border. According to Today's Trucking:
Canadian citizens are the only ones in the world who are exempt from US-VISIT. However, thanks to lobbing by the Canadian Trucking Alliance and other business trade groups, the U.S. has also to some degree exempted permanent resident truck drivers from the program.Read more: Homeland Security Unveils RFID Component to US-VISIT
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