Kochi: The Cochin international airport on Friday joined 40 destinations across the country where immigration, visa, foreigner registration and tracking ( IVFRT) system have been activated.
The system provides an elaborate network to monitor the arrival of foreigners and track their movement by roping in hotels and even homestays. Primarily, it envisages keying in the data submitted by foreigners in their disembarkation card to a New Delhi-based central server. The hotels and homestays, where the foreigners stay, will also be given an ID and password to access the server. This will replace the current practice of hotels submitting 'C' forms on foreigners staying with them to the nearest police station, said S K Nair, foreigners' registration officer at the airport.
23/03/13 Times of India
