A New Zealand man had his travel permit photo rejected in light of the fact that facial acknowledgment programming thought his eyes were shut.
Richard Lee, who is of Asian plummet, presented his photo to an authority online photograph checker keep running by the nation's inner undertakings office.
The computerized programming rejected it since it said the 22-year-old designing understudy's eyes were shut when they were plainly open.
It educated Mr Lee: "The photograph you need to transfer does not meet our criteria since: Subject eyes are shut."
It said he had nine more endeavors to take a worthy picture.
Mr Lee posted on Facebook: "No hard emotions on my part, I've generally had little eyes and facial acknowledgment innovation is moderately new and unsophisticated.
"It was a robot, no hard emotions. I got my travel permit restored at last."
Up to 20% of visa photographs for online applications are rejected for different reasons, as indicated by an inward undertakings representative.
He said: "The most widely recognized mistake is a subject's eyes being shut and that was the non specific blunder message sent for this situation."
The lighting in Mr Lee's first photograph was uneven, however a later one was acknowledged, he included.