The majority of passengers will be able to complete boarding, customs clearing, and other processes using the biometrics system, and enter and depart Singapore Changi Airport without having a passport, according to a law approved in Singapore.
Next year, Singapore Changi Airport will utilize biometric technologies to expedite passenger clearance.Photo reproduced from Wikipedia
The term "biometric identification technology" refers to a technique that authenticates identities using biological traits of the human body, such as fingerprints, faces, palm prints, eye iris, retina, voice characteristics, etc. The adoption of this provision, according to Josephine Teo, Singapore's Second Minister for Home Affairs, will facilitate and streamline the customs clearance procedure. Additionally, 9.01 million visitors arrived in Singapore in the first eight months of this year, up more than twofold from the same time last year, according to Singapore's official figures.
Josephine Teo consequently thinks that Singapore's tourism will resume its pre-epidemic levels in the upcoming year.
The "Automated Clearance Initiative" is still being expanded in scope by the Singaporean government. Taiwan is one of 52 nations and areas that have so far applied for it.
