Originally Posted by
sniles
Perhaps the officers on duty when I was there were not aware of the procedures for foreigners registered for e-channel. I was stopped upstairs at the fingerprint scanning machines and told to scan despite telling them i had e-channel registration and again at the entrance to the e-channel lanes despite again telling them i was registered.
In any case will try again next time around.
I went through PVG again today. No problem with not doing the fingerprints. I told the guy at the fingerprint entrance I had the e channel and he told me to just go downstairs. In practice, at least a PVG, it seems pretty easy to avoid the fingerprinting if you have e channel access. E channel worked fine for me again and nobody questioned me. If only I could get it to work on the way out of China...but that's a different issue.