The Ministry of Interior has decided to clamp down on the fraudsters by not only fingerprinting the deportees, but also taking their biometric fingerprint. This is done after discovering and arresting a number of expatriates who had been deported from the country and who returned after perform surgeries on their fingers and forging travel documents,
The Al-Rai has learned from well-informed security sources that, based on the instructions of the First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior Sheikh Talal Al-Khaled regarding setting up a mechanism to limit the entry of any expatriate who is deported from the country, the General Administration of Deportation will start, starting next Sunday, taking the biometric fingerprint for all male and female expatriates who are deported from the country.
In this regard the security personnel are trained to take the fingerprint to put an end to any possible form of manipulation that was previously carried out by some of the deportees, by defrauding and issuing forged passports and performing cosmetic operations on the fingers to change the fingerprint and sometimes also the face to change look.
The sources indicated that the Deportation Department at the Talha Prison deports those who hold passports directly, while at the same time coordinating with embassies to obtain travel documents who do not hold passports or if their passports have expired.
The sources indicated that officials in the administration work seven days a week, to prepare and deport those at the center according to their travel dates, especially since the prison’s capacity does not accommodate more than 1,500 people (males and females) while the security campaigns have contributed to a significant increase in the numbers.
These efforts made by the General Administration of Deportation come in parallel with the intensive security campaigns carried out by all sectors of the Ministry of Interior to arrest violators of the residence law and labor laws and outlaws.
At the beginning of this year and on a related level, the sources revealed the Ministry of Interior has immediate measures to deport people following a video clip showing Egyptians fighting inside a commercial market.
Breakdown of expatriates who were deported this year until August
- January: 2886 (1502 males – 1384 females)
- February: 2243 (1300 men – 943 females)
- March: 3275 (1844 men – 1431 females)
- April: 2460 (1628 men – 832 females)
- May: 4054 (2443 men – 1611 females)
- June: 3364 (1927 men – 1437 females)
- July: 3561 (1945 men – 1616 females)
- August: 3571 (1990 men – 1581 females)