{"id":304336,"date":"2019-03-08T15:23:14","date_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=304336"},"modified":"2019-03-08T15:23:14","modified_gmt":"2019-03-08T13:23:14","slug":"south-african-airports-to-get-new-e-gates-heres-what-you-need-to-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/304336\/south-african-airports-to-get-new-e-gates-heres-what-you-need-to-know\/","title":{"rendered":"South African airports to get new e-gates &#8211; here&#8217;s what you need to know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Home Affairs says it will pilot new e-gates at a number of South African airports in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson told BusinessTech that the gates will first be piloted at Cape Town International Airport and will form part of the implementation of the Biometric Movement Control System (BMCS).<\/p>\n<p>He added that a further rollout will be done in a phased approach, with Oliver Tambo and King Shaka International airports to follow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The broad objective of the project is the facilitation of movement of low-risk travellers through a self-service solution, hence freeing capacity for the assessment of high-risk categories by an immigration officer,&#8221; the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In line with the risk-based approach to managing migration, the first phase will focus on South African passport holders (excluding minors).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that the gates are being developed in terms of the Home Affairs White Paper on International Migration, as well as international civil aviation legislation.<\/p>\n<p>Expected benefits of the project include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reduced processing time at Immigration for low-risk travellers;<\/li>\n<li>Increased capacity to focus on higher-risk categories;<\/li>\n<li>Managing boarding time; and<\/li>\n<li>Improved customer satisfaction.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How it will work<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For the e-gates pilot at Cape Town International Airport, South African passport holders travelling internationally will proceed to e-gates for self-service immigration clearance where the following would be performed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Biometric verification;<\/li>\n<li>Passport authenticity and validity checks;<\/li>\n<li>Checks against the BMCS risk engine; and<\/li>\n<li>The BMCS will record the movements of persons on the system after all system checks have been successfully performed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Home Affairs said that the e-gates project will help address the key issue of traveller identification management, which is at the heart of secure and facilitated travel.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/lifestyle\/303546\/a-record-number-of-south-africans-have-applied-for-a-second-passport-heres-where-theyre-going\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A record number of South Africans have applied for a second passport \u2013 here\u2019s where they\u2019re going<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Home Affairs says it will start piloting new e-gates at a number of South African airports in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":304356,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9876],"tags":[26,2524],"class_list":["post-304336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-headline","tag-home-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304336"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304414,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304336\/revisions\/304414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}