Next year, one of the best airports in the world will be even easier to navigate. According to officials, automated immigration clearance will be implemented at Changi Airport in Singapore starting in 2024. Using only biometric data, visitors would be able to leave the city-state without a passport.
Some tourists will have the option to leave from Changi Airport without the need for a conventional passport as part of a broad revamp of the city-state’s immigration procedures. This program will be in place for the first part of 2024, if reports are to be believed.
“Singapore will be one of the first few countries in the world to introduce automated, passport-free immigration clearance,” Communications Minister Josephine Teo announced during a parliament session on Monday, during which several changes to the country’s Immigration Act were passed.
New Plans And Changes
The impending adjustments will “enable more seamless and convenient processing” and “reduce the need for passengers to repeatedly present their travel documents at touch points,” Teo said.
The use of tangible travel documents like boarding cards and passports will be replaced by a “single token of authentication” that will be created using biometrics and used at a variety of automated contact points, including baggage drop, immigration clearance, and boarding.
Teo emphasized that many nations outside of Singapore will still require passports because they do not offer passport-free access.
Faster Security Checks
Some tourists will have the option to leave from Changi Airport without the need for a conventional passport as part of a broad revamp of the city-state’s immigration procedures. This program will be in place for the first part of 2024, if reports are to be believed.
Singapore’s Changi Airport, frequently named the best and busiest airport in the world, is served by more than 100 airlines that travel to 400 destinations in roughly 100 countries and territories across the globe.
Facial recognition technology is already in use in some capacity at airports around the world, including those at Hong Kong International Airport, Tokyo Narita, Tokyo Haneda, Indira Gandhi International in Delhi, London Heathrow, and Paris Charles de Gaulle.
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