It’s Official: U.S. Has Finalized Exit Controls—Mug Shots Roll Out As Default For Permission To Leave The Country

That image is sent to the Customs and Border Protection cloud-based Traveler Verification Service, which compares each person’s mugshot to a gallery built from your passport or visa photo and compares it to the flight manifest. And while most countries have immigration checkpoints to pass through prior to departure, it’s still the case that you can leave Ireland without one (as with others, they receive passenger reservations data and can effectively stop exits when desired) and the same goes for the Bahamas when leaving for countries other than the U.S. where passengers go through U.S. immigration (preclearance) prior to departure. The Latin phrase civis romanus sum or “I am a Roman citizen” was enough to travel across the vast Roman Empire unaccosted, because the retribution of Rome was known to be both fierce and certain if one of their citizens was harmed.

Author: Gary Leff

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