Singapore will be the first in the world to do this.
SINGAPORE - All foreign visitors to Singapore, regardless of their nationality, will be able to clear immigration at air, land and sea checkpoints using automated lanes from the second-half of 2024.
Currently, the automated lanes can be used only by Singapore residents and passport holders from 60 jurisdictions. However, ICA said the traveller volume at land checkpoints during the school and public holiday periods had exceeded pre-pandemic levels since the reopening of borders in 2022. There were also more harbourers and employers of immigration offenders arrested, from 226 in 2022 to 327 in 2023.
There were eight people arrested for marriage-of-convenience offences in 2023, compared with nine in 2022. The cases involved foreigners marrying Singaporeans to enjoy immigration benefits here. They were caught when their biometrics were scanned, as ICA already had their biometric records from when they were previously in Singapore.It cleared almost nine million containers, consignments and parcels in 2023, an 8 per cent dip from almost 10 million in 2022.
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