Patent ID: 7118027

Claim:
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: a) a computer encoded card; b) a plurality of first computers comprising: i) a means for capturing a plurality of first biometric data from said visitor, said plurality of biometric data including a facial photograph of said visitor, ii) a means for entering first textual data, iii) a means for storing said first biometric data and said first textual data on said computer encoded card; iv) a means to communicate in a multiplicity of foreign languages on said first computers, wherein said visitor selects a language to communicate with said first computers from said multiplicity of languages; v) a means to translate said first textual data from said multiplicity of foreign languages to a language used by said visited country, said translation of said first textual data are second textual data; c) a first computer server remotely located from said first computers comprising: i) a first database system, ii) a plurality of programs for interacting with said first database system; d) a first communications network interconnecting said first computers to said first computer server; e) wherein said computer encoded card includes a first unique identifier; f) wherein said first computers store said first biometric data, said first textual data and said second textual data in said first database system located on said first computer server system using said first communications network; g) wherein said first textual data and said second textual data includes information about said visitor's stay in said visited country and additional data.