Subject: Re: Welcome to Chinese Operatives
They're not necessarily going to corroborate your claims by locating documents, but they absolutely review the documents you have with you. They'll ask you for your passport or other documentation showing your identity, and they run you (and your fingerprints) through every relevant database they have:

Sure. Are most 3rd world nations in the habit of fingerprinting all their citizens? How about facial biometrics? They do that, too?