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Scalable IT Backbone For Biometric Exit System To Be Ready In Early 2018, CBP Official Says

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, September 13th, 2017

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Scalable IT Backbone For Biometric Exit System To Be Ready In Early 2018, CBP Official Says

Unidentified traveler submitting a fingerprint at a Customs and Border Protection workstation. Photo: CBP

Next February, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) expects to have the robust information technology network backbone ready so that it can scale to handle the ramp up of a biometric-based system that will track the exit of foreign nationals from the U.S. in accordance with their visas, an agency official said on Tuesday.The Travel Verification System (TVS) is CBP’s cloud-based network system that is being used for its congressionally-mandated biometric exit system. The system will be ready in February to…

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