Immigration Controls
(asked on 29th January 2019) - View Source
Question to the Home Office:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans are in place to allow visitors from Australia and Canada to use e-passport gates.
Answered by
Baroness Williams of Trafford
Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (HM Household) (Chief Whip, House of Lords)
This question was answered on 6th February 2019
As part of the budget on 29 October 2018, the Government announced that, from this summer, nationals of Australia and Canada would be permit-ted to use ePassport gates when crossing the UK border. Nationals of Ja-pan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea and the United States will also benefit from this change.