RFID Border Crossing Card: Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative

Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative

... "Mexican citizens who routinely cross the border on the land borders use the Border Crossing Card as the common document, the so-called laser visa. That is already a highly secure machine-readable document with embedded biometrics. So really, for the Mexican citizens, they will -- this is at least what's in our proposed rulemaking -- they would continue to use that to cross the border. There may be a subsequent generation of Border Crossing Cards using some of the techniques or technology, excuse me, that Ms. Dezenski was talking about, radio frequency, ID technology (RFID) and things of this nature. But we really do not see this having a significant impact on the movement of Mexican nationals to the United States. The return of American citizens to the United States, however, is another thing and those are people who will have to acquire, perhaps, some more formal documentation than they currently have. " ...