Canada’s Immigration Department wants to introduce collection of biometric data as photos and fingerprints on everyone coming to the country by 2013 and regardless of visitor’s nationality.
At the meeting with the Parliamentary Immigration Commitee, Deputy Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Richard Fadden stated that the plan will be phased between 2011 and 2013.
“The intention is to capture everybody,” Fadden said. “The idea is to increase our capacity to know who is in Canada at a particular point of time.”
The program in its early stage was tested in 2006/2007 in two overseas visa offices and proved to reliable and effective tool that can be used against fraud.
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