Nation IN BRIEF : NATIONWIDE : Fingerprint Check on Immigrants Resumed
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
The Immigration and Naturalization Service, facing criticism from Congress and the Justice Department, has resumed FBI fingerprint checks on applicants for citizenship, political asylum and other forms of immigrant status. To save money, the INS had stopped fingerprint checks on April 1 in all but exceptional cases, relying instead on checking names against criminal records. But Deputy INS Commissioner Chris Sale said the fingerprint checks were being resumed pending a review of various means of verifying an applicant’s identity.
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