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Nor is there in the EU. The only government that has my fingerprint is the US, despite being an Irishman.
by patrickmcnamara 7y ago
Nor is there in the EU.
The only government that has my fingerprint is the US, despite being an Irishman.
- vinay427 7y agoRight, but it's worth mentioning that unlike the US and perhaps Ireland, countries in the Schengen area are required to issue passports containing fingerprint data, though most (all?) do not have a centralized database of citizens' fingerprints. The Netherlands planned to create a centralized store but it seems to face public opposition.
- swebs 7y agoI'm pretty sure modern USA passports require fingerprint data. They at least have the pokeball symbol signaling that it contains biometrics.
- refurb 7y agoThere is no requirement to provide fingerprints for a US passport. The only way I could see a US passport containing fingerprint data is if you were naturalized, but even then, it would require USCIS/USCBP to actually share that data with the State Department.
- free652 7y agoNegative, US passports don't have fingerprints (in the chip).
- vinay427 7y agoThe biometrics symbol indicates some sort of biometric data, which in this case stores the pthograph and personal data displayed in the passport. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_passport#Biometric_passport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_passport#Biometr...