The recent advancement in fingerprint identification and authentication have encouraged many people to conduct researches in Fingerprint Identification and Authentication (AFIA) as fingerprint identification is becoming a new domain for user authentication. Fingerprint classification plays an important role in large organizations where fingerprint identification systems are deployed. Fingerprint identification is very helpful in authentication when two fingerprints do not match and also it reduces the time used for identification. This paper presents a thorough review on the existing classification approaches that have applied to fingerprint recognition problems. The explanation in this paper covers the various evaluation parameters used by AFIS classification approaches.