{"id":604779,"date":"2023-09-20T11:49:13","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=604779"},"modified":"2023-09-20T11:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-20T06:19:13","slug":"singapore-aims-for-passport-free-departures-from-changi-airport-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/singapore-aims-for-passport-free-departures-from-changi-airport-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Singapore aims for passport-free departures from Changi Airport next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some passengers will soon be able to depart from Singapore\u2019s Changi Airport without a passport, as part of changes to the city-state\u2019s immigration law that allows for end-to-end biometric clearance.<\/p>\n<p>From the first half of 2024, biometrics will be used for authentication at various automated steps in the departure process, from bag-drop to immigration and boarding, communications minister Josephine Teo said in parliament Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will reduce the need for passengers to repeatedly present their travel documents at these touchpoints, allowing for more seamless and convenient processing,\u201d Teo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some passengers will soon be able to depart from Singapore\u2019s Changi Airport without a passport, as part of changes to the city-state\u2019s immigration law that allows for end-to-end biometric clearance. From the first half of 2024, biometrics will be used for authentication at various automated steps in the departure process, from bag-drop to immigration and boarding, communications minister Josephine Teo said in parliament Monday. \u201cThis will reduce the need for passengers to repeatedly present their travel documents at these touchpoints, allowing for more seamless and convenient processing,\u201d Teo said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-604779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}