The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is transitioning from collecting two digital fingerprints to collecting 10 fingerprints from international visitors to the United States. This transition is one of the department’s top priorities because it furthers DHS’s ability to keep dangerous people out of the United States, while making legitimate travel more efficient. DHS plans to replace the current two-fingerprint scanners with new 10-fingerprint scanners at all U.S. ports of entry over the next year. The Department of State (DOS) is using 10-fingerprint scanners at most of its visa-issuing posts already and will complete deployment worldwide by the end of the year. On November 29, 2007, DHS will begin initial deployment to U.S. ports of entry at Washington Dulles International Airport. In early 2008, nine U.S. airports will also collect additional fingerprints from international visitors to include: Boston Logan International Airport (Boston, Mass.), Chicago O’Hare International Airport (Chicago, Ill.), Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (Detroit, Mich.), Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (Atlanta, Ga.), George Bush Houston Intercontinental Airport (Houston, Texas), Miami International Airport (Miami, Fla.), John F. Kennedy International Airport (New York, N.Y.), Orlando International Airport (Orlando, Fla.), and San Francisco International Airport (San Francisco, Calif.). .