Is it an entire database of your travel history and criminal record and how do immigration officers use it to determine if you can enter or leave a country? What red flags can pop up from your passport photo/bio page? Cheers!
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This was before scanners etc, but I remember being on the way back from visiting my then-partner’s family in Martinique, a French island close to the coast of Venezuela. I was flying into Paris and transferring to Amsterdam, where I lived at the time.
As I came down the airgate, a trio of armed French cops looked at me, down at a clipboard, and back at me. One then released the dog he had on a leash. Dog came up to me and sniffed me before trotting back to the cops, who clipped the leash back on and left.
Realised after that a lone male travelling that route must have set off a red flag, cos those cops definitely had a copy of my passport photo on that clipboard and thought I might have been carrying drugs.
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