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Awaiting biometrics

A status in which the biometric information used to verify a person’s identity has not yet been received or recorded.

In plain English

Biometric information is body-based identity data used to confirm who a person is. This status shows that those identity-check details are still missing from the record. They have not yet been received or recorded.

In context

Here, it labels the case as still waiting for the biometric information used to verify the person’s identity because that information has not yet been received or recorded.

Situation
Following passport, visa, residence, border, and immigration-document administration
What it communicates
labels a case as waiting for biometric submission

Meaning limits

This term by itself does not say why the biometric information is missing or what any later decision will be.

Examples

“The rest of her identity record was complete, but the case was still awaiting biometrics.”

Core meaning

“After the clerk entered the paper details, one file remained awaiting biometrics.”

In context