Middle Eastern country Qatar has confirmed that archiving of fingerprinting of foreign workers would go fully digital by the middle of this year.The digitisation of more than 1.6 million fingerprints has been completed and the remaining are expected to be converted into the electronic format very soon, Captain Mohamed Mubarak Al Subaie, Head of Fingerprinting Section at the Criminal Evidences and Information Department (CEID) told the ministry magazine “Police With You.”Currently, around 2000 to 2,600 fingerprints are taken daily.The procedure takes between 5 to 10 minutes and then the fingerprints are transferred to Passports Department of the Ministry as a prerequisite for issuing residency permits to newly-recruited foreign workers, he explained. “After that we complete the remaining steps such as storing the fingerprints in the servers, to be used as a proof of identity,” said Al Subaie.Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia announced this week that fingerprint registration for post-paid mobile phone customers for all service providers in the Kingdom has been extended by 90 days and prepaid consumers by 45 days.
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