Real life taste of biometric registration

[Barryh]

We arrived in India today, complete with our e-visas. They’ve also introduced biometrics to go with it, which in Indian fashion wasn’t expected or explained and you were just left to it. However, registration was quick. Half a dozen fixed scanners in place, scan your passport then prints, scanned- 2 thumbs, then right and left hand fingers. All simply explained in pictures by the machine. Then to immigration where It all goes to pot. Passport scanned, then a random selection of digits scanned. Easy, but accompanied by endless keyboard tapping, which makes it really very slow, but maybe that’s just the famous Indian beuraucracy. So a big thumbs up for the technology.

 

[Spriddler]

I doubt very much that they want to speed up the processing system due to their philosophy of 'All the while I have a queue I have a job'.

 

[Brains]

We arrived in India today, complete with our e-visas. They’ve also introduced biometrics to go with it, which in Indian fashion wasn’t expected or explained and you were just left to it. However, registration was quick. Half a dozen fixed scanners in place, scan your passport then prints, scanned- 2 thumbs, then right and left hand fingers. All simply explained in pictures by the machine. Then to immigration where It all goes to pot. Passport scanned, then a random selection of digits scanned. Easy, but accompanied by endless keyboard tapping, which makes it really very slow, but maybe that’s just the famous Indian bureaucracy. So a big thumbs up for the technology.

And now imagine how that is (not) going to work in Dover Docks on the first week of the school summer holidays.

 

[cliffanger]

Glad you got through it. Did you land in Delhi? We had a 40th wedding anniversary trip and did the Golden Triangle and Shimla. We absolutely loved it.

Hope you have a brilliant time

 

[pappajohn]

If you were really struggling you could have rang a call center.... There are plenty in India or you'd maybe even get a UK one.

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[Barryh]

Glad you got through it. Did you land in Delhi? We had a 40th wedding anniversary trip and did the Golden Triangle and Shimla. We absolutely loved it.

Hope you have a brilliant time

Into Dehli then Golden triangle and Amritsar. Then we are going down to Andaman Islands for a bit of beach time. We’ve been to India before but you forget how amazing and crazy it is.

 

[Barryh]

If you were really struggling you could have rang a call center.... There are plenty in India or you'd maybe even get a UK one.

The Lycamobile number on the Indian website takes you through to Mr Singh in his kitchen who has no connection to Lyca. To call Uk centre is £1 a minute, my India SIM card is local only. Can’t WhatsApp Lyca uk. If they don’t sort it today then maybe I’ll buy some Skype time and try that to call uk.

 

[jongood]

The Lycamobile number on the Indian website takes you through to Mr Singh in his kitchen who has no connection to Lyca. To call Uk centre is £1 a minute, my India SIM card is local only. Can’t WhatsApp Lyca uk. If they don’t sort it today then maybe I’ll buy some Skype time and try that to call uk.

We went earlier this year, and used our lebara sims that include India Roaming.

 

[Barryh]

We went earlier this year, and used our lebara sims that include India Roaming.

That’s what our Lycamobile sims are supposed to include. But it’s not working

 

[VXman]

I have done this a number of times - China, Hong Kong, America donkey's years ago. I'm sure in some other Far East destinations. It's not a new technology.

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[Lenny HB]

Last time we went to Thailand a couple of years ago it was all biometric, only delay was 2 year old grandson beinging allowed in the immigration officer's booth to have a play while mummy was being scanned.

 

[jongood]

We flew back into Stansted yesterday, biometric passport scanners worked perfectly, a few seconds at most. IIRC the ones at LHR earlier this year did as well. The hold upon both ocassions was the luggage. If they ever get ETIAS started - then as long as they don't try and start it during school holidays - I reckon it will be no worse at suitably equipped airports and ferry ports than it is now, until the holidays come.