The Chronicle: Proposed Rule Change Would End Canadian Students’ Exemption From Finger Scanning at the Border
Canadians have long felt they had a special relationship with Americans, though heightened border security since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks is straining that relationship. Now the U.S. Department of Homeland Security is proposing to end one way in which Canadian students enjoyed a special status.
Under a rule change proposed on Wednesday in the Federal Register and likely to be adopted next year, Canadians coming to the United States to study or work would be required to be digitally fingerprinted and photographed. The requirement has already applied to all other foreign students since 2003, under the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program. The program, known as US-Visit, maintains a huge and growing database of biometric data on all foreigners who enter the United States.
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