Cargo vessels being added to US-VISIT program
The deputy director of the Department of Homeland Security’s US-VISIT program said merchant sailors will be added to the program.
US-VISIT is the program that records the identity of foreign visitors to the U.S. It has been in effect at airports and at seaports with cruise ship services.
US-VISIT program deputy director Robert Mocny said during a speech Tuesday at a security conference in Dubai, that merchant sailors would be added, according to an Associated Press report.
Immigration officials from the DHS will collect digital fingerprints of merchant sailors using hand-held scanners, and allow them to come ashore. Mocny said it would improve security to collect the fingerprints.
The report did not indicate when the program would take effect.
Cargo vessels being added to US-VISIT program
