Fingerprint needed for visa applicants
(newsphoto)
Updated: 2004-05-15 09:03

A worker at the Consulate General of the U.S.A. in Shanghai showed a Chinese applicant for a visa to the U.S. how to use a fingerprint scanner Friday, May 14, 2004. All Chinese citizens who want to apply a visa to the U.S. at the consulate will be required to offer information of their fingerprints by taking part in a "biometrics," workers in the U.S. consulate said, adding that the biometrics will take just several seconds. [newsphoto]

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