Was a retinal scan biometric done when the passport was issued, or are they systematically adding a biometric to existing passports?
No it wasn’t. But we do have a big database of those from Iraq and Afg who our military came in contact with during the last couple of decades. I think it was correlating against that database. I knew a guy years ago was fingerprinting in Iraq and this Iraqi came in to have get his prints taken. He was wearing gloves with the finger covering removed. As they had him put his hand down one of his fingers fell off! All of his fingers had belonged to someone else at one time.