Immigration Department set to introduce iris scanners

Speaking at the Huawei Zimbabwe sponsored Awards of Excellency for the Department of Immigration last Thursday, Principal Immigration Director Mr Clemence Masango said the department is set to introduce iris scanning security machines to curb counterfeit travelling documents and acts of terrorism.

Said Masango:

We are also looking at introducing iris scanners as a way of curbing travel document fraud and also enhancing security. We know there is a lot of counterfeiting of documents and in this era of terrorism it is important that we improve on our security travel documents.

He also added that they recently introduced online visa application processing facility which had managed to stamp out corruption among the department’s officers.

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