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Border Agents: Photo Identification

Canadian Border Dept: As part of an update of Canada s immigration safeguards, the federal government is planning to begin demanding that Indian citizens applying to travel to Canada provide their fingerprints, a requirement that visitors from other countries, such as Mexico and China, are not going to face immediately, according to The Star. Currently, Canadian border agents rely on photo identification to decide if the person standing in front of them matches their passport and nEW DELHI Canada appears to be heading for another diplomatic dust-up with India. Canada has been eager for several years to introduce biometrics to its border controls. The technology has already been employed for years by other Western countries to battle immigration fraud. As reported in the news.
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