Global Entry to become permanent
DHS secretary Janet Napolitano has decided to make the Global Global Entry system — a quicker way through customs and border control — permanent; U.K. and U.S. authorities are also working on an iris recognition scheme, similar to the Dutch Privium project, to fast-track entry to the United Kingdom
DHS secretary Janet Napolitano is making the Global Entry system — a quicker way through customs and border control — permanent. John Oates writes that the voluntary scheme, for U.S. residents, is currently being piloted at twenty airports. It allows preregistered passengers to swerve long security lines and enter a booth, stick their passport in a slot, have their fingerprints checked against a digital record, and answer customs questions via a touchscreen. Assuming all this works, the booth prints a receipt which can be shown to Customs officers on your way out.
About 27,000 people have registered and, between them, entered the country 100,000 times.
