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Originally Posted by ozkai
I have to say that when I first obtained my card by visitng the local ward office and being figerprinted, I did find it ratjher intimidating as besides the wording "alien", we were taght in Australia from a young age that crminals are fingerprinted. I find it sad that they still feel the need to make it compulsory for foreigners to hold the card.
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Currently, you are not required to register your fingerprints for the card. They got rid of that about 10 years ago.
You do have to be fingerprinted when entering the country though - that`s been in effect for... 3 years now? Maybe 4? I haven`t been out of the country since that law was passed, so have never had my fingerprints taken.