Maldives Immigration has taken delivery of a facial recognition system donated by the Government of Japan, in a handover the agency says is meant to strengthen border management and identity verification. The agency announced the transfer following an official ceremony at the MACL Corporate Hall.
According to Maldives Immigration, the system was formally handed over by Japan’s ambassador to the Maldives, Ishigami Rumiko, to the Minister of Homeland Security and Technology, Ali Ihusaan, who accepted it on the agency’s behalf. The Controller General of Immigration, Ahmed Faseeh, along with senior immigration officials and representatives of the Japanese government, attended the event. The agency said the contribution would help strengthen border management, enhance identity verification, and improve passenger processing efficiency.
The donation adds to a broader build-out of biometric capacity in the Maldives, which last year launched a nationwide biometric data collection program for foreign workers as part of an expansion of its digital identity management. For a tourism-dependent country that processes large volumes of international arrivals, facial recognition is the kind of tool immigration authorities increasingly lean on to verify travelers’ identities and speed up passenger processing, the uses Maldives Immigration cited for the donated system.
Maldives Immigration did not name a vendor, specify where the system would be deployed, or give a timeline for putting it into service, and the agency’s announcement did not detail what data the system would collect or how it would be stored. The handover was disclosed through the agency’s official social media channel rather than a formal release.
Sources: Maldives Immigration
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By the ID Tech Editorial Team
