It has happened to the best of us. The last-minute racking of brains on arrival in the UK to try to remember where the passports were packed, followed by the panicked fumbling all the way to the bottom of every compartment of every bag.
That may all be in the past though, should plans reportedly proposed by the government’s borders agency go ahead, with the need to present the document on arrival in the UK being replaced by facial recognition technology.
Phil Douglas, the director general of Border Force, said he had been “really impressed” by e-gate schemes in Australia and Dubai.
Read the rest of the story at The Guardian, here.