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Savage71

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I know this has been covered but now the US are taking 10 fingerprints I'm abit worried. 22 yrs ago I got convicted of theft from an employer.Received 9 months in prison but served 41/2.Also it was in my married name and since then I have gone back to my maiden name which is now on my passport. What exactly flags up on the screen. I have parkinsons aswell so will be in a wheelchair at the airport so how does that work.Any advice would be appreciated x
 
I may come across as abit stupid mainly because my parkinsons gets me a little confused .All I wanted to know is what they can see when they take your Finger prints.
 
If the conviction was in the UK, and you were fingerprinted here, there is no chance they will know about it. If you were fingerprinted in the USA 22 years ago, it's unlikely the prints made it to the federal database, they are probably languishing in a local police department.

Google seems to trust Urban as being the world's leading authoritative source of information regarding US visas, which is not really central to the missionstatement, so some people can be a little less than welcoming when the topics cone up. Please don't be offended. ;)
 
pseudonarcissus said:
If the conviction was in the UK, and you were fingerprinted here, there is no chance they will know about it. If you were fingerprinted in the USA 22 years ago, it's unlikely the prints made it to the federal database, they are probably languishing in a local police department.

Google seems to trust Urban as being the world's leading authoritative source of information regarding US visas, which is not really central to the missionstatement, so some people can be a little less than welcoming when the topics cone up. Please don't be offended. ;)
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99 :cool:
 
pseudonarcissus said:
If the conviction was in the UK, and you were fingerprinted here, there is no chance they will know about it. If you were fingerprinted in the USA 22 years ago, it's unlikely the prints made it to the federal database, they are probably languishing in a local police department.

Google seems to trust Urban as being the world's leading authoritative source of information regarding US visas, which is not really central to the missionstatement, so some people can be a little less than welcoming when the topics cone up. Please don't be offended. ;)
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Thsnkyou it's a big weight off my mind .Was getting quite worked up about it x
 
Savage71 said:
I would rather not go over it again I try to forget about it. It's been and gone I paid my price for it and so just want to get on with my life ad longs o can
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Just remember, tick NO to all questions regarding being arrested, incarcerated, usuing any drugs ever, coming to the US for terrorist purposes or being involved in the Nazi genocide.


NO.
 
Savage71 said:
I may come across as abit stupid mainly because my parkinsons gets me a little confused .All I wanted to know is what they can see when they take your Finger prints.
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As far as I know, they scan them and start a fresh record that's linked to your passport. There's no super-clever world wide crime database that they feed into.
 
Savage71 said:
Yes thanks I have done it.lt came back ok.My criminal record would have been in my married name though and my esta and passport are in my maiden name now as I got divorced
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If your ESTA is ok and you where honest on it you should be fine.
 
Recently, there's been news about airports wanting to test out a facial recognition identification process. I only heard about the fingerprint scan once from reading a thread here on Urban. Haven't heard much of it since, quite honestly. The news really was pushing the facial recog bit.

Upon researching the fingerprint scan, I stumbled upon a Bloomberg article from June of this year:

Passengers who are enrolled in PreCheck, the TSA program that gives travelers expedited screening, will be able to use their fingerprints at Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson International and Denver International to verify their identity and to pull up their boarding pass information, the agency announced Tuesday.
(...)

Delta announced Tuesday that is also working with U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Atlanta and New York’s Kennedy International to test a new biometric procedure for people leaving the country. Passengers can use facial recognition portals to verify their identity and scan their boarding passes, Delta said in a release.
(...)

Most people enrolled in PreCheck have already provided the government with fingerprints in order to pass a background check. Once the system matches their prints, it will not only verify their identity but also link automatically to their boarding passes, according to TSA.
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More research (via the Government travel website):
What is a Biometric?
A biometric or biometric identifier is an objective measurement of a physical characteristic of an individual which, when captured in a database, can be used to verify the identity or check against other entries in the database. The best known biometric is the fingerprint, but others include facial recognition and iris scans.

Making Us Safer - International Visitors
The use of these identifiers is an important link in U.S. national security, because fingerprints taken will be compared with similarly collected fingerprints at U.S. ports-of-entry. This will verify identity to reduce use of stolen and counterfeit visas, and protect against possible use by terrorists or others who might represent a security risk to the United States. These two important programs (collecting fingerprints for visa issuance and verifying travelers’ fingerprints when they enter the United States) will make travel to the United States safer for legitimate travelers, and also improve safety and national security for all Americans. This transition to ten prints will enable the Departments of State and Homeland Security to more effectively process visa applicant fingerprints.

What This Means - Traveling to the United States
  • For U.S. Visas the chosen biometric identifier method is a digital photo and electronic fingerprints. All fingers of a visa applicant are electronically scanned in a quick, inkless process during the consular officer's interview with the applicant.
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Applicant Refusal to be Fingerprinted at Visa Interview
A visa applicant who refuses to be fingerprinted would have his or her visa application denied on the basis that it is incomplete. However, an applicant who then later decided to provide fingerprints would have his or her visa application re-considered without prejudice.

About the Information Collected
The electronic data from the ten fingerprints is stored in a database and is made available at U.S. ports-of-entry to Department of Homeland Security immigration inspectors. The electronic fingerprint data is associated with an issued visa for verification and the privacy of the data is protected by storage in the database.

The U.S. Department of State makes data available in accordance with the law governing the use of visa records, to U.S. law enforcement agencies that require the information for law enforcement purposes. Visa records are, by law, confidential. Requests for access to visa records by law enforcement are subject to statutory, regulatory and other legal restrictions.
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I also just went to look for the thread about the convictions... Shit, there's a ton of them! :facepalm:

Oh, and Savage71, is this your thread under a different username?
 
abe11825 said:
Recently, there's been news about airports wanting to test out a facial recognition identification process. I only heard about the fingerprint scan once from reading a thread here on Urban. Haven't heard much of it since, quite honestly. The news really was pushing the facial recog bit.

Upon researching the fingerprint scan, I stumbled upon a Bloomberg article from June of this year:



More research (via the Government travel website):


I also just went to look for the thread about the convictions... Shit, there's a ton of them! :facepalm:

Oh, and Savage71, is this your thread under a different username?
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