This goals to strengthen border safety, while enhancing the traveller expertise
TDM Editor
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 means 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 forms of passport-less immigration clearance, to assist travellers get by means of immigration quicker.
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 means 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 a substitute 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 step by step apply token-free immigration clearance at its terminals starting 5 August.
