March 01, 2006
e-Gate facilities at Airportsokay, I may be wrong but clear me out on this one.
'He said after the full implementation of the system and introduction of electronic National Identity Cards for all UAE residents, the entire immigration procedures would be done electronically using smart cards.'
I don’t travel much but this is what I collect:
e-gate system at the Airports is a smart card you are provided with , which you can swipe through a gate, hence reading/recording all your data, instead of waiting at the immigration counters.
Scenario: Mr. xyz, is on his way to (enter country that does not have e-gate system) from
On Arrival in (enter country that does not have e-gate system), oh boy, line! ok , he waits, as he approaches the counter officer, hands over the passport to the officer, who looks at him suspiciously says 'where’s your stamp?', Mr. xyz : what stamp?; The officer calls in the ground security and they take him in.
A confused Mr. xyz is taken into custody and is charged with entering the country illegally. Mr. xyz then realises that the e-gate system dint require his passport to be stamped (exit/entry from/to a country stamp in your passport) at the
Since (enter country that does not have e-gate system) don’t have provision for such a system and are unsure of what he was saying, held him in for say 3 hours at the airport as a result of which Mr. xyz bribes them and flees the airport having to throw away his e-gate card that probably cost him AED 200-300.
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