Over 1,000 foreigners carrying false ID cards were expelled from Singapore last year following the implimentation of their biometric border controls.

The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) database stores information, photographs and fingerprints on 146,000 former Singapore residents since repatriated for committing offences.

Sneaking in to the city-state will become even more difficult by December when ICA officers have real-time access to the Interpol database of more than 12 million lost and stolen passports in 114 countries.

Attempts to bypass the security by burning or disfiguring the fingertip have rarely worked.  It seems that a large chunk of criminals attempt to return following vice offences - prepared to risk the 2 years and $3,777 maximum penalty for illegal entry to the country.  You have been warned!

Read some more over here.

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