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Jul 21, 2022 | 2:22 am

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Originally Posted by UKTony

Reading https://assets.publishing.service.go...nuary_2021.pdf

So the watchlist rejection looks to be false information as generally the 'seek assistance' is during the initial machine readable information.

Facial recognition is only attempted after (1) successful read of ePassport chip (b) camera photo of face. In most cases I never get to a framed face shot at UK gates.

So is anybody reading the reports and benchmarking? Last week the referral queues at LHR T5 were long

but

Oh dear - I wonder if the aged gates have problems with the Gemalto chips in the new Blue passports. Most of the rereferral queues I experienced at LHR T5 has Blue passports in their hands

Oh dear

And just in my inbox

The ICIBI has commenced a monitoring review of ePassport gates

Page summary:
The review will examine the Home Office’s progress against the recommendations made in the previous inspection report on ePassport gates (June 2020 – January 2021).

Change made:
First published.

Time updated:
4:34pm, 20 July 2022

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