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I flew out of SXM (St Maarten) Airport earlier this year. Their new departures terminal features an e-passport gate to exit the country. The agent watching over
by joezydeco 3y ago
I flew out of SXM (St Maarten) Airport earlier this year. Their new departures terminal features an e-passport gate to exit the country. The agent watching over the turnstiles sits just past the gates in a glass booth. You can see them comparing the photo taken to the photo recorded in the passport. That's all there is to it.
- danpalmer 3y agoI've seen a row of 20 active e-passport gates and maybe 1 or 2 officers in their booths off to the side, both assessing people in their role as a second line of assessment (I've before had the gates fail to scan my passport and had to go to the booth). At least in those circumstances, it doesn't seem to be the case – both because I don't think a 1-10 ratio would work, and because they were busy doing other things. Maybe this happens in some places, but as far as I can tell, not in the UK/Heathrow or Australia/Melbourne where I use these gates regularly.