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).
