Changi airport rolls out passport-less immigration

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Travellers flying into Singapore can now expertise passport-less immigration clearance at Changi Airport starting this month. 

That is a part of the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s (ICA) plan to strengthen border safety, while enhancing the traveller expertise by way of digitised border clearance. 

Beneath the New Clearance Idea (NCC), all travellers will take pleasure in automated clearance, and all Singapore residents and eligible overseas travellers will take pleasure in immigration clearance even with out presenting their passport.

Two types of passport-free immigration clearance

There are two sorts of passport-less immigration clearance, to assist travellers get by way of immigration sooner. 

Token-less clearance at air and sea checkpoints applies to Singapore residents at each arrival and departure, and all overseas travellers at departure. This entails clearing immigration by way of facial and iris biometrics with out want for the presentation of particular person passports. 

The opposite is QR code clearance at land checkpoints. Right here, travellers use a QR code, as an alternative of presenting their passport to clear immigration. That is the shape used at immigration counters on the border between Singapore and the Malaysian metropolis of Johor Baru.

Changi Airport will regularly apply token-free immigration clearance at its terminals starting 5 August.

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