U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) recently announced the elimination of the $85 biometric services fee for all Form I-539 applications to extend/change nonimmigrant status, beginning ...

Jiang Li, CEO of Vivalink, talks about the company’s biometrics data platform as a data service that’s designed to support virtual healthcare applications, in response to emailed questions. Why did ...

As a part of various USCIS immigration applications, the U.S. government requires the applicants’ biometrics to be collected in order to conduct relevant background checks and services prior to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had far-reaching impacts on all our daily lives. Travel, events and workplaces have all been significantly impacted by the virus, throwing many peoples’ lives out of balance, ...

Iris recognition is catching up to other popular biometric applications, such as fingerprint and facial recognition, in worldwide usage. It’s a highly accurate technology because human iris patterns ...

Homeland security applications, especially those used in our nation’s border control, provide an ideal example of how to implement biometrics in a way that builds ...

John Woodward, associate director of the RAND Corp.'s Intelligence Policy Center — and former director of the U.S. Department of Defense Biometrics Management Office — offers Farai Chideya a glimpse ...

The highly sensitive nature of biometric data and new regulations aimed to protect it are cause to rethink how it's used for authentication. Biometrics are among the most personal forms of information ...