Re: [Debconf-team] DebConf10 - call for Location proposals
On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 05:39:59AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Andreas Tille dijo [Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 09:51:21AM +0200]:
> > Well, I understand your frustration about several things said here. But I might
> > add another reason which is probably neutral about US behaviour about
> > visitors: I have to apply for a passport that includes my fingerprint if I want
> > to go to US. But I also do not really like to have my own government to keep
> > my fingerprint in their databases. If I want to avoid this I can not attend a
> > DebConf in US (and so I do not consider attending).
>
> AFAICT, at least from my experience (rules may differ for Europeans,
> as you don't need a separate visa), this point is not true. Mexican
> passports have never had fingerprints on, even though my government
> has them on several other official documents.
>
> USA visas do, however - My visa has my fingerprints and photos encoded
> in it. Maybe that's the reason they won't require us such a passport -
> because they trust more their visas than our passports :)
>
FWIW, I have a valid spanish passport for travelling to the US and it has not
included my fingerprints.
OTOH, my goverment already has my fingerprint recorded because they are/were
compulsory in our ID card.
Ana
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