Hand Scanner at Kuwait Airport

its to prevent the cheating becouse lots of indians and bangladish workers who have problems and they are not allowed in kuwait anymore the gov. stamp their passport so they cant get into Kuwait forever but they cheat by changing their names and passport and its so easy there. and they get back to kuwait with new visa. the hand scanner will prevent that by identifiying finger prints.

wish that they apply it as u said

some arabic nationalities also do the same.

(when the intention is to avoid such cheating why to specify the country????)

Quick, hide the women, and children. The grammar police are on patrol.

hmmm i think this is very good

I remember seeing them last February but they were switched off back then, are they using them now?

what if their fingertips are covered with crumps and dead skin? :X

irishlassy: eye prints are then used …

So the grammar police are welcome now?? I remember when I called you out on “France Airport” and you never fixed it

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Can you use just one finger? 😉

i just remembered seeing these machines at the British Visa Office.
They scan finger prints of visa applicants. Maybe this is the new way to get the fingerprints of expats, instead of messy ink. You arrive at the airport, they scan your prints…

I was not singling out certain nationality, i was just explaining the reasons behind such a decision. I do not make the rules, I was just explaining it. Also, according to the MOI the workers from Bangladish (not all of them) are the ones who make most of the crimes ! thats why sometimes you hear about the MOI stop giving visa to domestic workers from Bangladish. This is based on their experience with this particular nationality

This is also part of ongoing efforts across the world to digitize travel documents; largely due to a diplomatic shove from the US.

Essentially —

All travelers should have e-readable passports/travel documents. To know if your passport is e-readable (yes, kill me now grammar police, but that’s what they call it) look at the page with your name on it. If it is written in portrait and has a bunch of >>> at the bottom with your name, then its e-readable (this is the old form — the newer passports have a different format). If you have any kind of visa to the US; have a look at it to know its e-readable; also I believe UK passports are e-readable. This is to both stop offenders and to improve transit — ahem — “experience” for legitimate travelers (read: not being strip searched).

Its not only Kuwait, on a recent trip to Pakistan I had my photo taken at the immigration counter (from a Logitech web cam) and my passport information updated; I know these machines have been installed at Dubai since I started taking regular trips there which was about a year ago.

Good stuff if you ask me. Oh and Mark — “hand scanners …. I wonder what they are for…” — hrmm, I don’t know? Scanning fingerprints maybe? 🙂

Yup… Thats a DIU ( Digital Identification Unit) 🙂 . Its quite common in some of the high end corporate offices here that pay great attention to security. Basically one has to be authorized to enter.. period. Also used on all US Military bases here where I work only diff is along with scanning your hand you have to swipe an ID card to verify authenticity.

Frankly I am quite surprised that Kuwait took so long considering the fact the MOI has been experiencing a rise in so many of the a fore mentioned criminal activities.

As for mentioning specific nationalites this has pissed me off…. Like zig mentioned earlier WASTA…what about wasta??….thats what gets the criminals in and out of the country. I mean come on people wake up and smell the BS..The Kuwaiti Customs / Passport Control have to be either fucking blind or so very well greased up aka. BRIBED not to notice a fake passport !!!!

Here in Kuwait wasta equals cash and who has a whole load of extra cash to bribe ahem take care of an official? 🙂 A laborer /poor ass worker from the Indian Subcontinent, Asia, Bangladesh?? Or a filthy rich local who has made his cash from bringing these poor souls into the country and then screwing them by not paying them , holding them hostage by keeping their passports & forcing them to pay him great amounts of cash each year so that they keep their residence permit??

How do you expect these people to pay him ?? Lord knows a Taxi driver aint earning a KD 400 salary.. Nor a maid who hardly even makes KD50 that also if she is lucky enough to be hired by a decent family..other wise its a flat rate of KD 20 cause she just happens to be staying under THEIR roof , eating THEIR food and breathing THEIR air !!

Is it any wonder then as Mind your finger print so casually said quote un quote ” these workers/drivers become pimps and their country women become prostitutes??” How else are they expected to pay to stay in this country?? DIVINE INTERVENTION PERHAPS??

Dont mean to preach …just am pissed at the way everyone generalises Asians or Arabs to be criminals. I mean damn…. DOES ANY ONE READ THE LOCAL PAPERS?? Who the hell do you think is sodomising little boys out in the deserts?? Who do you think is grabbing innocent maids and boys in the middle of the streets and taking them to desolate areas to rape them ?? Which Asian or Arab do you know here in Kuwait has access to a fire arm?? Kinda makes you wonder huh??

PEACE OUT……