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 :) -- Gunnar Wolf - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - (+52-55)5623-0154 / 1451-2244 PGP key 1024D/8BB527AF 2001-10-23 Fingerprint: 0C79 D2D1 2C4E 9CE4 5973 F800 D80E F35A 8BB5 27AF _______________________________________________ Debconf-team mailing list Debconf-team@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-team
