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Visabio is the French Government system for tracking applicants to its national visa system. It stores biometric data including fingerprints and photographs.[1] Visabio is connected to the European Visa Information System (VIS),[2] though Visabio has also been described as "the French segment of VIS."[3] Customs officers in France use Visabio.[4]
- ^ "Projet de loi de finances pour 2011 : Sécurité - Immigration, asile et intégration". Sénat (in French). The Senate of France. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
The VISABIO program, resulting from Act No. 2003-1119 of 26 November 2003 on the control of immigration, residence of foreigners in France and nationality, succeeds the BIODEV program. It consists of a computerized processing of biometric personal data (digitized photograph and fingerprint of the 10 fingers) of the visa applicants. It is represented by a security sticker identical to that used for non-biometric visas. The data is stored for five years in the central database
- ^ "Projet de loi de finances pour 2011 : Sécurité - Immigration, asile et intégration". Sénat (in French). The Senate of France. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
The VISABIO national system has been adapted to connect to the European Visa Information System (VIS). The central system of the VIS is being qualified by the European Commission. Its delivery date, originally scheduled for December 2010, has been postponed until the fall of 2011. VIS is the world's largest biometric database, as it is expected to eventually contain identifiers of some 100 million, people.
- ^ Jean Marc Manach (17 October 2007). "Milipol : la sécurité décomplexée". Le Monde (in French). Retrieved 7 February 2017.
Visabio is the French segment of the Visa Information System (VIS), the world's largest biometric database, which aims to centralize the photographs and fingerprints of all ten fingers of all visa applicants Of the European Union and ultimately the identifiers of some 100 million people.
- ^ "Customs officer, a profession that evolves with society". The Maville of Brest (in French). Ouest France. 21 May 2013. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
The customs officers are equipped with Visabio, a system of control of biometric passports with document readers. Migration controls have priority over all others.