Glossary items matching biometric

“Biometric”

A measured and/or recorded biological parameter. Example: passport-type photo, finger print, iris detail, retina blood vessel detail, voice pattern, and DNA signature. Technically speaking, mentally stored information is also biometric, so this includes: signature or monograph, PIN number, password and passphrase.


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People Granted Asylum: Government Support (26 Mar 2024)

Michael Tomlinson: ...working relationship that is needed. That is happening on the ground, but I take on board his point that that there need to be good working relationships between Departments. I will briefly mention biometric residence permits, because they are important in obtaining onward support and allowing newly recognised refugees to integrate and establish themselves. It is right that there have been...

Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL] - Second Reading (22 Mar 2024)

Lord Clement-Jones: ...standard; and no recognition by the Government that explicit legislation and/or regulation for intrusive AI technologies used in the public sector, such as live facial recognition and other biometric capture, is needed. Then, of course, we need to meet the IP challenge. We need to introduce personality rights to protect our artists, writers and performers. We need the labelling of...

Artificial Intelligence (Regulation) Bill [HL] - Second Reading (22 Mar 2024)

Lord Clement-Jones: ...standard; and no recognition by the Government that explicit legislation and/or regulation for intrusive AI technologies used in the public sector, such as live facial recognition and other biometric capture, is needed. Then, of course, we need to meet the IP challenge. We need to introduce personality rights to protect our artists, writers and performers. We need the labelling of...

Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: Hotels (22 Mar 2024)

Tom Pursglove: Since September 2023, all individuals receive a minimum of 28 days’ support (including accommodation) after being issued with a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP). There are no current plans to extend the 28 days prescribed in legislation due to the huge pressures on the asylum system. We offer move on support to all individuals through Migrant Help or their partner organisation. This...

Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum (21 Mar 2024)

Michael Tomlinson: ...asylum seekers within that total will be a subset. It’s not information we hold. All asylum claimants are subject to mandatory security checks to confirm their identity and to link it to their biometric details for the purpose of immigration, security and criminality checks. These checks are critical to the delivery of a safe and secure immigration system. If the asylum claimant is aged...

Written Answers — Home Office: Visas: Ukraine (15 Mar 2024)

Tom Pursglove: All Ukraine scheme application forms are accessed online. The application process which allowed Ukraine scheme applicants to use the UK Immigration ID Check app to provide facial biometrics was open to eligible Ukrainians outside of the UK until 7 December 2023. This process was only ever available for Ukrainians applying from outside of the UK. We keep the Ukraine schemes and application...

Asylum and Migration (14 Mar 2024)

Alistair Carmichael: ...underpinned by the snappily titled person centric data platform, which stores a migrant’s interactions with UK immigration systems over time, including visa applications, identity documents and biometric information. It stores the records of 177 million people and is part of a Home Office project to digitise fully visa and immigration systems that has cost more than £400 million since...

Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: Ukraine (14 Mar 2024)

Taiwo Owatemi: ...Secretary of State for the Home Department, what his planned timetable is for establishing a process by which Ukrainians who did not receive a 1A stamp on arrival to the UK are able to apply for a biometric residence permit and extend their leave to remain.

Written Answers — Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office: Armed Conflict: Visas (13 Mar 2024)

Andrew Mitchell: ...meets regularly with the Home Secretary to discuss relevant policy matters between the two departments. Visa applications can be started online at any time. Applicants are required to enrol their biometrics in a Visa Application Centre (VAC) as part of the visa application process to support identity assurance and suitability checks on foreign nationals who are subject to immigration...

Written Answers — Home Office: Asylum: Greater Manchester (12 Mar 2024)

Tom Pursglove: Since September 2023, all individuals receive a minimum of 28 days’ support (including accommodation) after having been issued with a Biometric Residence Permit (BRP). There are no current plans to extend the 28 days prescribed in legislation due to the huge pressures on the asylum system. We offer move on support to all individuals through Migrant Help or their partner organisation. This...

Written Answers — Home Office: Visas: Gaza ( 6 Mar 2024)

Tom Pursglove: ...appointments at the Visa Application Centre (VAC). VACs in the region, such as Egypt, Jordan and Turkey, are open and offering a full service. In the vast majority of circumstances, the UK requires biometrics to be taken as part of an application; this is vital so we can conduct checks on the person’s identity and suitability to come to the UK. Biometrics, in the form of fingerprints and...

Written Answers — Home Office: Entry Clearances: Gaza ( 4 Mar 2024)

Bell Ribeiro-Addy: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what provision his Department has made for collecting biometric data from relatives of British nationals fleeing Gaza in the absence of functioning visa applications centres in Gaza.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits: Standards (27 Feb 2024)

Kate Osamor: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many applications for biometric residence permits were delayed as a result of technical issues in each month since January 2023.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits: Ukraine (27 Feb 2024)

Peter Kyle: ...is taking to tackle potential discrepancies between UK Visas and Immigration requirements to provide a Border Force passport stamp as proof of entry to the UK for Ukrainians applying for a biometric residence permit card and Border Force practice in stamping passports.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits (26 Feb 2024)

Charlotte Nichols: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of the time taken to issue biometric residence permits.

Written Answers — Home Office: Entry Clearances: Sudan (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Timms: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of people from Sudan applying for entry clearance to the UK have requested that (a) the biometric enrolment process be excused and (b) the application be predetermined since April 2023.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits: Standards ( 8 Feb 2024)

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, whether there is a cost implication to (a) his Department and (b) Serco of biometric residence permit cards being issued with errors.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits: Standards ( 8 Feb 2024)

Olivia Blake: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many and what proportion of biometric residence permits issued in (a) the last 12 months and (b) each of the previous 10 years contained errors; what his Department's target time is for correcting such errors; and what the average time taken to correct such errors was in each of the last 12 months.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits: Standards ( 7 Feb 2024)

Mark Hendrick: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many newly issued biometric residence permits have been returned due to clerical errors in their production in each of the last five years.

Written Answers — Home Office: Biometric Residence Permits: Standards ( 7 Feb 2024)

Mark Hendrick: ...of State for the Home Department, what steps his Department takes to (a) mitigate delays in producing and (b) ensure the correct (i) names and (ii) bate of births are printed on newly issued biometric residence permits.


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