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Article: Americans visiting Brazil to be fingerprinted, photographed.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- February 11, 2004
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Byline: Kevin G. Hall
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil _ The Brazilian government has made permanent the requirement that visiting Americans be fingerprinted and photographed. It was imposed as retaliation by a judge who was offended by new U.S. immigration procedures that he characterized as Nazi-like.
While American visitors to Brazil will continue to endure the same processing that Brazilian visitors face when they enter the United States, new rules put in place Tuesday call for immediately installing electronic fingerprinting equipment and Web cameras to speed the process.
In a concession to U.S. diplomatic objections, Americans no longer will be ...