Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Why passport stamps may be a thing of the past
Nowadays, travel photos are rarely printed after traveling. Instead, they
are posted on social media during the trip. Also, paper tickets and boarding
passes are mostly replaced by QR codes on smartphones. For international travel,
a passport is still a physical proof of the holder’s identity, and has many
pages designated for visas and entry/departure stamps. However, they are now left
blank even after crossing the border many times. In fact, more countries have adopted
digital immigration processes, including fingerprint, facial photo, and
passport scanning with or without a human inspector. Gone are the days when you
heard an immigration officer slam a stamp on your passport at a border control.
Also missed are stamps, the paper proof on the passport, when you want to
recall travel experiences. When will we miss paper passports?
Read the article and learn how border-crossing procedures have been changing.
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