Overview#

Automated Biometric Identification System (IDENT) is the central United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) system for Government Data Store and processing of biometric and associated biographic information for:

• National Security
• Law Enforcement Agency
• United States Customs and Border Protection
• Intelligence Agencies
• background investigations for national security positions
• certain positions of public trust
• and associated testing, training, management reporting, planning and analysis,
• or other administrative uses.

Automated Biometric Identification System appears to use the same data as US-VISIT.

Biometric data: #

• digital facial photographs
• Fingerprint recognition
• Iris recognition scans
• palm prints
• latent fingerprints (collected by federal, state, local, and foreign Law Enforcement Agency, and military operations for an investigation or for intelligence purposes),
• and other biometric modalities to be added in the future.

Biographic data#

• (1) full name (i.e., first, middle, last, nicknames, and aliases)
• Date Of Birth (DOB)
• gender
• signature
• personal identifiers including:
  • Alien Registration Number (A-number)
  • Social Security Number (SSN) (when provided)
  • State Identification Number
  • civil record number
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Fingerprint Number (FNU), Fingerprint Identification Number (FIN), National Unique Identification Number (NUIN); and
• personal physical details, such as
  • height
  • weight
  • eye color
  • and hair color
• identifiers for citizenship and nationality, including person-centric details, such as:
  • country of birth
  • country of citizenship, and nationality
• derogatory information (DI),11 if applicable
  • including wants and warrants,
  • KSTs
  • sexual offender registration
  • immigration violations
  • IDENT watchlist status information
  • miscellaneous officer comment information;
• document information and identifiers (e.g., passport and visa data; document type; document number; and country of issuance);
• current and historic whereabouts.
• Encounter data:
  • transaction identifier data
  • such as sending organization
  • timestamp
  • workstation
• reason fingerprinted, such as
  • entry
  • visa application
  • credentialing application
  • apprehension
• and any available encounter information, including an IDENT-generated encounter identification number (EID).

Category#

Government Surveillance

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Consolidated Consular Database
• IDENT
• Traveler Verification Service