I've joined the US's Registered Traveler Program . Clear (a subsidiary of Verified Identity Pass Inc.) operates the local facility here at Dulles, so I joined their network. In exchange for submitting to (and paying for) a background investigation and biometric authentication (fingerprint in my case, though they also had iris scanners there it wouldn't work on me) you get to have a very short security line -- though you still go through the same "take-off-your-shoes" security process. They seem to
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