On Mon, 5 Jan 2004 10:30:55 +0000 (UTC), "Howard Long"
wrote:


Visitors face US security checks

Most Europeans are excluded for now

New US security regulations are coming into force that will see most foreign
visitors having their photographs taken and fingerprints checked.
The rules apply to visa holders and cover all but 28 countries.

The AP story on this says:

" Foreigners also will be checked as they leave the country as an
extra security measure and to ensure they complied with visa
limitations."

Does anyone know how this will work? Up to now, someone checking in in
Omaha for a trip to an exit airport in, say, San Francisco, has
his/her passport checked and visa pulled by the Omaha airline clerk if
he or she remembers. At SFO, there is an airside bus that (I think)
takes domestic arrivals into the international teminal inside of
security. There has been no official scrutiny whatsoever. Where/how
are they inserting it?

I'm shocked to find myself in general agreement with the program
provided they can meet their claims for speed and that they treat
false failures as a learning tool rather than shrugging shoulders and
saying, "Oh well, we're at war."