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Old Oct 6, 2013, 4:26 am
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If you go through immigration in Phnom Penh, they'll do both hands.
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Old Oct 8, 2013, 7:29 pm
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If you go through immigration in Phnom Penh, they'll do both hands.
This, and possibly a request for a "tip" at passport control upon entering. When departing, there's a funny sign at passport control saying "Nothing to Pay Here".
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Old Oct 8, 2013, 9:42 pm
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Gone through PNH a million times and have yet to experience this. Overland checkpoints are horrible though.
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Old Nov 22, 2013, 5:07 pm
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There were finger print scanners set up at TPE and KUL when I went through during the last few days. Didn't get asked to use them.
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Old Nov 23, 2013, 2:15 pm
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Originally Posted by Loren Pechtel
I've never been printed in Shanghai but it could be a new thing.
Update: No prints in PVG in Oct 2013.
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Old Nov 26, 2013, 12:01 pm
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Fingerprint scanners are in use at RDN. That was quite unexpected.
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Old Nov 26, 2013, 6:47 pm
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Also, while this is not an Asian country, UK visitors using a visa to enter are fingerprinted (not those using visa waiver to enter).
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Old Nov 27, 2013, 10:20 am
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Originally Posted by echino
Fingerprint scanners are in use at RDN. That was quite unexpected.
Sounds like the disease at KUL is spreading to the rest of Malaysia.
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Old Nov 27, 2013, 2:41 pm
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Originally Posted by Spiff
Sounds like the disease at KUL is spreading to the rest of Malaysia.
This occurs at LGK as well unfortunately.
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Old Nov 27, 2013, 3:21 pm
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They were fingerprinting (index fingers only) at ICN on Sunday night.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 12:01 pm
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Originally Posted by Hyperacusis
Also, while this is not an Asian country, UK visitors using a visa to enter are fingerprinted (not those using visa waiver to enter).
Not exactly. One must be fingerprinted in order to get a UK visa.

At the UK border, the fingerprint scanner is usually used to verify that 2 fingers used to obtain the visa are the same 2 fingers entering the UK.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 12:40 pm
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Sounds like the disease at KUL is spreading to the rest of Malaysia.
It's a disease if they do it in Asia, but not if they do it in the US? Not logical, Mr Spock.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 2:29 pm
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It's a disease if they do it in Asia, but not if they do it in the US? Not logical, Mr Spock.
Uhh, Spiff is one of the most vocal opponents (on FT at least) of this practice by his country.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 3:46 pm
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Uhh, Spiff is one of the most vocal opponents (on FT at least) of this practice by his country.
OK. Good to hear it, but some of his fellow-citizens are not, and see nothing wrong with the US policy of fingerprinting "foreigners" but not its own citizens.

Some of those people get quite indignant at some non-US country fingerprinting US citizens. I saw it in Japan, where some US citizens protested loudly at being fingerprinted, not realizing that, in that situation, they were the foreigners.
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Old Nov 28, 2013, 4:05 pm
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It's a disease if they do it in Asia, but not if they do it in the US? Not logical, Mr Spock.
As was mentioned, I strongly condemn US "security" procedures, especially treating our guests like criminals.

The scumbags in the US government who mandated and continue this harassment belong in prison.

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Some of those people get quite indignant at some non-US country fingerprinting US citizens. I saw it in Japan, where some US citizens protested loudly at being fingerprinted, not realizing that, in that situation, they were the foreigners.
I've stopped visiting Japan and all other countries who treat guests like criminals.
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