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RFI Issued for US-VISIT Land Exit Solution

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Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has issued a Request for Information (RFI) seeking potential solutions, service providers and suppliers for the design and development of the Biometric Land Exit Solution under the US-VISIT program. While DHS plans to comply with legal mandates to include biometrics as part of the land border exit solution, it is willing to entertain incremental solutions that may start with captured biographical data and how land exit solution could evolve to accept biometrics in a…

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