[Osem]

They have access to all sorts of personal data about us. Some of it given directly by us and a lot gathered elsewhere from other agencies. Whilst it's relatively easy for a fraudster to pretend to be someone else when answering questions in an application form it's not so easy to carry that off at an interview when the additional personal questions which are going to be asked are unknown and could cover a vast array of topics. My wife is foreign and if you'd ever seen the way in which IND staff question people they stop you'd know that they are very clever about the questions they ask, the way in which they interpret the answers given and how they detect/expose any inconsistencies. I guess they'll be doing exactly that.

Of course, this procedure won't prevent all passport fraud but it'll make it a lot harder than it currently is and that's the best they can do.