VSC Workstations Helping to Secure Europe’s Borders as Rising Numbers of Refugees Present Fake Documents when Seeking Asylum |
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With record numbers of migrants seeking asylum in Germany, the country’s Federal Office for Migration and Refugees (BAMF) has invested in the latest document examination equipment from Foster+Freeman in order to authenticate, with forensic precision, the nationality, date-of-birth, and true identity of the thousands of refugees seeking to enter the country every day. In the first nine months of 2016, Germany received 420,000 requests for asylum, 20% more than the rest of Europe combined. In many of these cases, the migrants presented identity papers to BAMF staff tasked with assessing their right to asylum. At the front line of examination, Foster+Freeman Eye-D systems are used to quickly interrogate passports, ID cards and other identity documents under a selection of UV, Visible and Infrared light sources. Compact and cost-effective, the Eye-D can be used to reveal hidden document security features and detect evidence of tampering and alterations not visible to the naked eye. High-level forgeries and questioned documents are referred to the BAMF diploma lab in Nuremberg where trained document examiners use Foster+Freeman VSC instruments to ascertain the validity of documents using advanced forensic analysis techniques. Last year, the Nuremberg lab investigated 99,000 documents, using VSC workstations to reveal evidence of chemically removed inks, very slight alterations made to genuine documents, and a number of very high quality forgeries. |
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