Don’t they have a border there where they should present some documents? Foreign passport or something? This kind of papers already have photo. And even a name. And many other data.
I concur, photographic information is already standard for international travel, so this is really not a big deal. I am way more concerned about things like proposed changes to require visitors to list their last five years of social media accounts.
Maybe to match against the passport photos. Some people travel with other similar-looking people’s IDs, and it can be missed by inspectors. So having an current photo of the traveler can be used in post-hoc investigations to determine if they did so.
Don’t they have a border there where they should present some documents? Foreign passport or something? This kind of papers already have photo. And even a name. And many other data.
I concur, photographic information is already standard for international travel, so this is really not a big deal. I am way more concerned about things like proposed changes to require visitors to list their last five years of social media accounts.
I wanted to say… something different. Why bother with photographing if they already have photos of travelers? Sounds illogical.
Maybe to match against the passport photos. Some people travel with other similar-looking people’s IDs, and it can be missed by inspectors. So having an current photo of the traveler can be used in post-hoc investigations to determine if they did so.