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The Straitstimes

The Straitstimes

Passport-less clearance fully available at Changi Airport, average clearance time of 10 seconds: ICA

The Straitstimes
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70% Informative

Singapore residents can now clear immigration at Changi Airport by using just facial and iris biometrics.

Foreign visitors will still need to produce their passports upon arrival, but can use just biometric when they depart.

Singapore is the first in the world to implement such a clearance system on a large scale.

Travellers said they were very impressed with the system.

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75

Informative language

77

Neutral language

40

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

43

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not offensive

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not hateful

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not detected

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not detected

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short-lived

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