Method and system to issue an electronic visa of a foreign visitor at a country's foreign consular premises

A distributed immigration and non-immigration visa issuing and validation system for a visitor's visa application to visit, study or work in a visited country, comprising the steps of:

• a) collecting first biometric data and additional first data from said visitor with a first computer by a visa issuing authority in a foreign country;
• b) said first data collected in a first language selected by said visitor from a multiplicity of foreign languages used to communicate with said first computer, and said first data translated into a common language used by said visited country from said first language by said first computer, said translated language data are translated second textual data;
• c) transferring said first biometric data, said additional first data and said translated second textual data from said first computer to a second computer using a first communications network, said second computer comprising a first database system, said first database system residing in said visited country;
• d) storing said first biometric data, said additional first data and said translated second textual data in said first database system;
• e) validating said first biometric data using a multiplicity of watch-list databases;
• f) validating said other first data and said translated second textual data;
• g) issuing a computer encoded card to said visitor, provided said validating steps are approved by said visa issuing authority, said computer encoded card comprising a first unique identifier, said first biometric data, said other first data and said translated second textual data;
• h) using said computer encoded card to board transport carriers to said visited country;
• i) using said computer encoded card to enter said visited country in conjunction with a valid passport;
• j) validating said visitor by collecting second biometric data using a third computer, said validating comprising transferring said second biometric data to said first database system and comparing said second biometric data with said first biometric data stored in said first database system and said first biometric data stored in said computer encoded card;
• k) instructing said visitor to check-in with a first self-service computer terminal by a predetermined date, said first self service computer terminal located in a plurality of locations in said visited country;
• l) connecting said self-service computer terminal to said first database using a second communications network;
• m) using said computer encoded card to check-in with said first self-service computer terminal;
• n) accessing said first database system by said self-service computer terminal, using said first unique identifier, said first unique identifier read from said computer encoded card;
• o) validating said visitor by collecting third biometric data using said first self-service computer terminal, said validating comprising transferring said third biometric data to said first database system and comparing said third biometric data with said first biometric data stored in said first database system and said first biometric data stored in said computer encoded card;
• p) using said computer encoded card in said visited country as a personal identity means.

A distributed immigration and non-immigration visa issuing and validation system for a visitor's visa application to visit, study or work in a visited country, comprising the steps of:

• a) collecting first biometric data and additional first data from said visitor with a first computer by a visa issuing authority in a foreign country;
• b) said first data collected in a language selected by said visitor from a multiplicity of foreign languages used to communicate with said first computer and translated into a common language used by said visited country by said first computer, said translated language data are translated second data;
• c) transferring said first biometric data, additional first data and said translated second data from said first computer to a second computer using a first communications network, said second computer comprising a first database system, said first database system residing in said visited country;
• d) storing said first biometric data, said additional first data and said translated second data in said first database system;
• e) validating said first biometric data using a multiplicity of watch-list databases;
• f) validating said other first data and said translated second data;
• g) issuing a computer encoded card to said visitor, provided said validating steps are approved by said visa issuing authority, said computer encoded card comprising a first unique identifier, said first biometric data, said other first data and said translated second data;
• h) using said computer encoded card to enter said visited country;
• i) validating said visitor by collecting second biometric data using a fourth computer, said fourth computer comprising a mobile computer operated by a visited country immigration official whilst said visitor is waiting in an immigration entry queue;
• j) reading said first biometric data, said other first data and said translated second data from said computer encoded card by said fourth computer, k) said validating comprising transferring said second biometric data, said additional first data and said translated second data to said first database system and comparing said second biometric data with said first biometric data, said other first data and said translated second data stored in said first database system and said first biometric data, said additional first data stored and said translated second data in said computer encoded card;
• l) using said computer encoded card in said visited country as a personal identity means.