New Zealand, in conjunction with the Australian government, has begun utilizing fingerprint biometric checks of immigrants entering the country in an effort to improve border security and curb identity fraud, according to a TVNZ article.

Immigration New Zealand is expecting the new process to help identify people entering the country with criminal backgrounds or using fake identities before they have integrated into New Zealand and become harder to track. New Zealand and Australia have already been sharing databases of biometric information for this purpose, however, the countries are expected to take part in data sharing with multiple other countries soon to create massive databases wherein local authorities have better chances of detaining people of interest as they enter the country.

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