Foreign visitors to the US have had to be fingerprinted for years, so you could guess it's part of the normalization of surveillance around the world.

Having fingerprints on our ID cards has existed for decades.

I paid, booked a flight etc for having a 360 scan and giving my fingerprint just to be able to apply for a US visitor visa (which could be rejected but they would still keep all your information)

And European visas work exactly the same way. The news here is that Americans are going to lose their privileged status, and be treated like the rest of us.

We have biometric passports in the EU for quite some time so I'm a bit surprised it took so long to take the same data for visitors too.

Every single comment: What do you mean, it's totally normal to require fingerprint scanning for travel purposes!

People will let others take from them, piece by piece, until everything is gone. Even if you have nothing to hide, do we not have a right to privacy? We should be asking why they need it.

From high risk countries, full of extremists and other dangerous people like the US? Seems pretty reasonable.

It's been normal for Europeans entering the US for a few years now. It was about time for it to become reciprocal.

I wish (and have wished since US-VISIT started) that Europeans would instead have persuaded the U.S. to stop doing it, instead of copying the U.S. or reciprocating.

Perhaps you didn’t realize that the United States has required most Europeans to scan their fingerprints for several decades upon entry.

Everybody entering you mean.

With some exceptions, including not only the obvious one of US citizens but also most Canadian visitors too.

It's a clear-cut troll account. They won't acknowledge anything that refutes their inflammatory flamebait.