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As a regular US traveler, I'm ok with that if the alternative is handing over EU citizens data to a known bad actor.

• nixgeek 4y ago
  I mean it sounds like you’d be giving up all the same data just through a slower process. From the presentation: For all travellers (and asylum seekers) before entry into USA Hit/ No hit query of the foreign databases On hit: retrieval of existing data record in pull procedure A part of visa issuance by a U.S. Embassy is a background check against both US databases and those of the local country. I believe all visa appointments perform digital capture of fingerprints, face, along with anything on an e-Passport. So this gets the U.S. nearer to equivalence in VWP with what they can already do with the visa processes? If you don’t want the U.S. to hold your biometric information it sounds like you just won’t be traveling to that country any longer.
  • jalk 4y ago
    Exactly and you shouldn’t have traveled to the US after 2007 if the biometrics was your concern. Fingerprints and photo have been captured by the immigration officer at the port of entry, regardless of visa type, since that time. Received a long term B1 visa in 2011, after going to the embassy and had the biometrics taken. Reapplied in July 2022, and was able to get a waiver for the in-person interview, as the embassy still had my biometrics (my travel would have been delayed by several months otherwise) So the change is the “watch list” lookup / handover of records for hits. Hate to be in the camp saying that “if you haven’t done anything wrong you have nothing to worry about” but I honestly assumed that those checks were already done.