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Biometrics system for foreign students raises MPs' eyebrows
News UK universities can guarantee that foreign students applying for visas will attend under the sponsorship management system, which is part of the NBIS. The requirement for applicants to provide biometrics in person for... [05 Aug 2009]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile Apart from championing mobile working - he uses an iPhone for work - Mather's role also incorporates responsibility for various major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas. Tony Mather is CIO of the Foreign and... [03 Jun 2009]
ID cards head for the high street
News Under the plans customers will be able to use the high street outlets to scan their fingerprints and facial photographs that will be stored on microchips in the cards or biometric visas and the central National Identity... [06 May 2009]
ID cards: Rely on 'visual check' as biometrics unreadable
News Cards are being introduced for foreign students, at a cost of between £295 and £500 and for people seeking marriage visas at a cost between £395 and £595. The first UK ID cards will be of limited use for full biometric... [25 Nov 2008]
One million ID cards every year from 2009
News The first foreign nationals to get the cards will be "people applying for a right to study in the UK" and "people applying for marriage visas" - the two categories that most frequently abuse their terms of residence,... [25 Sep 2008]
Manchester Airport begins biometric ID trial
News These checks make up just one part of Britain's triple ring of security, alongside fingerprint visas for three-quarters of the world's population, and the roll-out of ID cards for foreign nationals locking people to one... [20 Aug 2008]
Stolen ePassports 'worth £20m' on black market
News A van carrying about 3,000 blank ePassports and visas was hijacked on route to RAF Northolt, near London. The thousands of UK ePassports stolen on Monday are likely to sell for up to £20m on the black market, say privacy... [29 Jul 2008]
Tony Mather
CIO Profile In addition to managing a tech budget in excess of £100m per year and major IT-related programmes such as biometric visas, shared services and the Firecrest project to upgrade the FCO's entire IT infrastructure, Mather... [11 Jun 2008]
Are foreign imports hurting the UK tech industry?
News ATSCo obtained the data from Work Permits UK, the Home Office body responsible for visas. Short-sighted staffing decisions could be damaging the future development of the UK tech industry, the body representing IT... [12 Mar 2008]
Biometrics cuts days off UK visa processing
News Biometric technology has slashed the time taken to process visas for people coming to the UK, the government has said. The link to UK databases also helps to ensure visas are not granted to people... [05 Mar 2008]
Biometrics the future for flying bliss?
News Finn said that future security systems will rely on e-passports, ID or smart cards or visas that would contain both biometric data - such as fingerprints and iris scans - and biographical data, ranging from name and... [21 Feb 2008]
Dear silicon.com... HMRC search costs, Vista SP1 moans and fingerprints for visas…
Comment Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas Reader Comments of the Week showcases how our users are responding to the latest tech news and views on the site. Greedy or justified? Police seek full costs of HMRC CD search [17 Jan 2008]
Biometric fingerprint checks for UK visas
News All applicants for visas to enter the UK will face biometric fingerprint checks from the end of this month. The fingerprint database contains the records of more than one million previous visa applicants.silicon.com's A... [14 Jan 2008]
Foreign Office admits data breach
News Mark Sedwill, director of UKvisas, said the organisation regrets mistakes were made but no evidence has been found the details were exploited and no visas were wrongly issued as a result. The Information Commissioner's... [14 Nov 2007]
Biometrics wing their way into Gatwick
News At present only arrivals from Sierra Leone who have been issued with biometric visas in the capital Freetown will be included in the trial. In addition, citizens of Sierra Leone require visas to enter... [09 Oct 2007]
