project visa
RSS project visaRapid Response Visa and Getronics Deliver Efficiency With CARE
White Paper Visa EU deployed Getronics for the project as its proven track record in the development of solutions for the financial services sector. The service delivered by Visa EU to its member banks is fundamental to the competitiveness of the business and... [18 Jul 2008]
Photos: Welcome to futuristic shopping
Photo This is a contactless payment point similar to the ones that have been rolled out across London for use with contactless payment cards from Mastercard and Visa. In the shop customers could access, for example, a list of items relating to a certain... [04 Jun 2008]
Accenture and BAE Systems abandon ID cards
News And also the replacement and upgrading of systems for fingerprint matching and storage in connection with immigration and visa requirements and transition to the replacement service. Two major IT suppliers have pulled out of the bidding for... [25 Jan 2008]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.silicon.com's A to Z of Biometrics The system will cover 133 countries, three-quarters of the world's population, and has already uncovered 10,000 visa... [14 Jan 2008]
UK passports face massive price hike
News The UK switched to ePassports in 2006 to comply with the US Visa Waiver Programme. To meet the US Visa Waiver deadline the UK's Identity and Passport Service was forced to accept a manufacturer's guarantee of only a two-year lifetime for the chips... [10 Oct 2007]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News UKvisas, a joint Home Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office unit that runs the UK's visa service, is already collecting fingerprints from visa applicants in more than 100 countries around the world. [09 Oct 2007]
ID card project gets new boss
News The government has succeeded with other ID programmes such as the ePassport scheme, which it claims has blocked 4,000 ineligible visa applications. The national ID card project has a new boss following a reshuffle of Home Office ministers. [27 Jul 2007]
Gov trumpets ePassports successes
News The government has pointed to the successes of its ePassports scheme, claiming 4,000 ineligible visa applications have been blocked due to biometric checks. Biometric checking enabled immigration authorities to catch out more than 4,000 visa... [13 Jul 2007]
National ID Scheme an "essential defence"
News The minister also highlighted evidence of a growing risk in ID fraud in the UK discovered through the government's biometric visa project. Since the tech was rolled out, more than 4,000 visa applicants have been found to be withholding information... [19 Jun 2007]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.03.07
Round-Up Reid's audacious plan involves sending visa-holding immigrants a carefully timed text message reminding them their papers are about to expire and they should make plans to leave the UK. And each one, try as he might, has managed to shoot himself in... [09 Mar 2007]
Amnesty liberates donations
News Mobile payments platforms are becoming more popular, with Visa unveiling a platform last month which it says will "lay the foundation" for the commercial deployment of contactless mobile payments and near-field communication services around the... [27 Feb 2007]
Oyster and e-money credit cards coming to London
News Barclaycard, Transport for London (TfL) and Visa have teamed up to put contactless payments and Oyster card functionality together on the capital's plastic. A spokesman for TfL said the bank was given sole rights to use Oyster "because Barclays and... [13 Dec 2006]
High-tech security forces up passport price - again
News For example, because of US Visa Waiver rules, had the ePassport been unavailable hundreds of thousands of holiday makers would have had to pay for visas to visit the US. Prices rose in December last year, pushing the cost of a passport up from £42... [24 Jul 2006]
US push for more internal anti-terror data sharing
News They also said the federal government would move more toward digitised applications and videoconferencing with visa applicants. State and Homeland Security screeners already use information culled from visa applications and airline passenger... [18 Jan 2006]
Bidding begins for £400m e-Borders system
News People deemed to pose a threat to UK security would not be allowed to board a plane, ship or train bound for the UK, and the system will also keep electronic logs of each traveller's entry and departure in an attempt to crack down on individuals... [04 Oct 2005]
