Using technology previously reserved for military and other high security applications, engineers from the Safety and Security Systems Division of the Volpe Center have developed a number of automated biometric systems to speed the processing of frequent travelers through United States immigration and to reduce the dependence on manual immigration inspections. These systems, now in use at selected border crossings by the Immigration and Naturalization Service, may serve as the basis for future automated immigration processing developments, both in the United States and around the world.
The profiles contained in the appendix are all in the Portland, Maine district. They are listed below by border groups as used in the study, with the ...
The appendix contains a series of border crossing profiles covering the major, and in some cases, minor crossings in the border frontier. The frontier...
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