A similar arrangement will be offered to Thai passport holders visiting Hong Kong. The Southeast Asian nation is the fifth country to have struck a deal on the automated checks with the city, after South Korea, Germany, Singapore and Australia.
“Residents of [Hong Kong and Thailand] can easily pass through immigration control, resulting in shorter waiting and clearance times, ” Raymond Lok Wai - man, the Immigration Department’s assistant director responsible for information systems, said.
Lok said using the automated clearance service would take about 20 seconds. On average it takes about 75 seconds for a visitor to go through immigration clearance at a counter when entering Hong Kong, and 57 seconds when leaving.
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