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>"That is, is visa overstay travel fraud enough to justify spending $1 billion on a system" Not sure how this applies specifically to visa-overstays? A visa ov
by zo1 9y ago
>"That is, is visa overstay travel fraud enough to justify spending $1 billion on a system"
Not sure how this applies specifically to visa-overstays? A visa overstay need not check your facial identification. It just needs to check that your document + visa overstayed the alloted time period or whatever rule it's comprised of.
Sounds like a business rule a code-monkey could implement within a couple programming hours.
- woolvalley 9y agoIf you read the article, it's about someone else using that passport to create an exit record, even though the original person is remaining in the country.
- eesmith 9y agoBecause the article says: "DHS says that airport face scans are designed to verify the identities of travelers as they leave the country and stop impostors traveling under someone else’s identity." and "DHS now claims the program is designed to detect a particular type of fraud defined in this report as “visa overstay travel fraud”" That's the only justification given for the program. It's not simply visa overstay. Sidebar 2 explains it as: > “Visa overstay travel fraud” refers to a situation in which a foreign national wishes to remain in the United States undetected past the expiration of his visa and, to do so, arranges to have a conspirator leave the country in his place using the visa holder’s credentials. This creates an “exit record” in the visa holder’s name, fraudulently leading the government to believe that the visa holder has left the country, when in fact he has remained past the expiration of the visa, or “overstayed.” That requires some sort of comparison between the documents and the body of the person leaving. It cannot be done in only a couple of programming hours.