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Sovereign microstate between France and Spain, in Western Europe
A substantial majority of states now issue some form of biometric identity—most passports and many embed fingerprints, face templates or chips—but a meaningful minority of countries either do not issu...
None of the three countries — , and — are shown in the provided reporting to mandatorily collect from their citizens or residents for domestic identity schemes beyond the biometric requirements tied t...
will be required for nationals of visa‑exempt third countries — the travellers who currently enter the Schengen/ETIAS countries without a visa — and will not be required for EU/Schengen nationals, cer...
Across the eight countries named, publicly available comparative reporting shows clear variation: , and do not issue national identity cards (which reduces—but does not eliminate—routine biometric enr...
All three countries issue and are swept into ’s expanding biometric border architecture, but they differ sharply on domestic national ID cards and publicly documented e‑service biometric schemes: issu...
explicitly mandates collection of biometric information—photographs, fingerprints and iris scans—under the when an individual applies for a visa, and the country has recently introduced a to govern br...
No sovereign state today maintains a truly unconditional, world‑wide “anyone may enter” policy; research and mainstream reporting conclude there are no countries with fully open borders for everyone a...
No U.S. state has entirely abolished property taxes; every review in the provided set says property taxes exist everywhere in the U.S., though some states and individual cities keep very low or no mun...