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BAMF Introduces IT-Supported User Helpdesk System
White Paper The German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) is the center of expertise for asylum, migration, and integration in Germany. It needed to accelerate processing of IT error messages and service queries by the... [01 Sep 2009]
UK inks fingerprint sharing deal with Australia, Canada
News The agreement will see the UK share the fingerprint data of foreign criminals and asylum seekers with Australia and Canada. The government has announced a fingerprint sharing deal, which it claims will help fight... [24 Aug 2009]
IBM inks ID cards biometrics contract despite Tory scrap pledge
News The IPS and IBM have also signed a deal for the company to supply a replacement for the UK Border Agency's Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System, which holds visa applicants' biometrics. IBM's contract to supply... [13 Jul 2009]
UK asylum agency stuck in the tech dark ages
News The agency that deals with asylum seekers has been criticised for still relying on faxes, instead of email, to carry out its daily business. The UK Border Agency's use of the machines to send a large amount of documents... [22 Jan 2009]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News The system will cover 133 countries, three-quarters of the world's population, and has already uncovered 10,000 visa applicants connected to earlier immigration cases and asylum requests and detected 500 cases of... [14 Jan 2008]
Named: ID cards scheme supplier hopefuls
News Suppliers will be required to design, build, deploy and service various projects - including an overhaul of the Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System - as well as offer business process and IT outsourcing. [22 Oct 2007]
Doubts over £13.3bn government efficiency savings
News While some of the £13.3bn efficiency gains are robust - such as the Home Office reducing the cost of asylum accommodation - the PAC report raises question marks over almost £10bn due to an inability by government... [11 Oct 2007]
ID cards: The bidding war begins
News Suppliers will be required to "design, build, deploy and service" the projects - which will include an overhaul of the Immigration and Asylum Fingerprint System - as well as offer business process and IT outsourcing. [09 Aug 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News Seven out of 10 of these matches were due to fingerprint data previously collected in the UK from individuals who had attempted to claim asylum before, according to the government. Speaking at a Westminster eForum,... [13 Jul 2007]
Editor's Blog: DIY enterprise mobility
Comment Second, security can actually increase when you let the lunatics run the asylum. End users, it seems, are to be trusted more and more with choosing their own mobile devices. I say this as Richard Hall, the UK CTO of... [03 Jul 2007]
ID card mega-database ditched
News Existing biometric storage systems currently used for asylum seekers will be used for the NIR in the short term. The government has trimmed back its controversial ID cards plans, ditching a single mega-database to hold... [19 Dec 2006]
Biometric border checks come into force
News The Home Office said the new powers provided through the Immigration, Asylum and Nationality Act will improve security and are needed to support the rollout of finger-printing for visa applicants by 2008. [01 Sep 2006]
ID Cards on Trial: Illegal working myth exposed
News Home Office Minister Tony McNulty told MPs that prosecutions have been brought in magistrates courts against just 23 firms between 1999 and 2003 under the Asylum and Immigration Act 1996. Government claims that the... [14 Jun 2005]
Asylum-seeker biometric fingerprinting extended
News East African visitors travelling to the UK will have to provide biometric fingerprint data from March as part of the government's latest crackdown on illegal asylum applications. The Home Office claims there are large... [21 Jan 2004]
Will ID cards contain DNA sample?
News Andy Kellet, senior research analyst at Butler Group, said the government had prepared the ground for ID cards by initially aiming them at the "soft target" of asylum seekers and that once it is introduced on a national... [27 Nov 2003]
