The Minister responsible for Technological Implementation reported to Cabinet that Antigua and Barbuda is very close to installing Kiosks and E-Gates at the V.C. Bird International Airport.
The latest technology is being applied in Antigua to reduce the length of time it takes to clear Immigration, especially on a busy Saturday and Sunday when the large aircraft bring hundreds of passengers.
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Can someone in the know explain how the machines will make it faster and cut down on lines? People will still have to line up at the kiosk to fill out the form that requires you answer a whole lot of useless information and then having done that the passenger will still have to get the 3rd degree interview by the slow, slow immigration officer. So how does this make the process slower. At the moment passengers fill the form on the plane so when they get to immigration they are ready to be provessed. The real problems are a small arrival area for all the passengers on a wekend, an outdated process and slow and inept officers. In Miami there is no form to fill out. Your passport is scanned and you may be asked a question or 2. That’s it. In most cases a minute and you are gone.
Based on the one that Barbados utilizes it’s seems very similar to the one in Miami. As you said it literally takes a minute. Some passengers may be asked to visit the desk based on rating given by the kiosk. But all in all it’s much faster and the immigration area is definitely big enough for at least 50 kiosk. So imagine how many passengers can be done in 5 minutes.
@B. Malone,
Antigua is a one step at a time place. There are no process or improvements. The forms are for the bean counting to pat themselves on the back for the number of arrivals.
It”s really an enrichment scheme, and nothing else
“welcome new & returning patients, Check In Here’
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Why don’t allow the persons to do it online, it is easier and people won’t have to wait so long to go thru immigration!
We too love spend money. Not even in the wonderful US .. kiosk are not enough!! Then you have to train persons to help persons at the kiosk.. okay so how about filling out an online form before passengers get here? We’re backward. How many other Caribbean countries still foll forms. Well people.. the SIDS conference is in another 2 months, we want to look like the “Economic Powerhouse” we’re not.
Fix the dam belt to load your luggage on the airplane at the airport!! Enough
If Antigua was to lighten up on the the whole immigration and customs scenario and just wave every one through like St. Maarten always has, there would be a tourist boom beyond imagination and cabinet ministers would all be raking in millions of dollars. We don’t want that. They will become even more insufferable and we’ll never get rid of them. Much better to leave things the way they are!
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