Since 2012, more than 100,000 people have been enrolled in the system, with 350 to 450 new enrollments per business day.
The Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment needed a secure and reliable way to manage and track passports for Sri Lankan citizens working abroad. System integrator Cenmetrix has developed their CenAFIS solution, which combines MegaMatcher-based fingerprint matching with passport scanning to detect fraudulent passports. Airports in Sri Lanka and Sri Lankan embassies around the world are now using the CenAFIS system.
When a Sri Lankan citizen is planning to work overseas, he or she is required to notify the Sri Lanka Bureau of Foreign Employment and enrolled fingerprints and passport in the CenAFIS system. Before departure, most Sri Lankans working abroad will open a special bank account through which they can send money back to Sri Lanka. Using the details of the enrollment data and scanned passport, the CenAFIS system prints a bank-issued ID card, using the card design template of that individual's bank, with the person's name, photo and card expiration date. The card-holder identity is also verified and checked against Employment Bureau watch list at the airport, when he or she is leaving the country.
Suprema RealScan-G10 ten-print fingerprint readers and RealPass F passport scanners are used on client PCs at the Sri Lanka airports and embassies to capture fingerprints and to scan passports correspondingly. The CenAFIS software runs on a cluster with HP ML310 servers, running Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 and SQL Server 2008 R2. Fagoo P550 printers are used for ID card printing on the client side.
