Originally Posted by
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Unfortunate! It would allow Immigration officials to focus their limited manpower/resources on customers they don't know or have many details on, would allow for more automation (could not be preferred in India as it is in the west) and use facial recognition, etc. Hopefully whenever DigiYatra comes up and is more commonplace, it'll eventually extend to immigration.
Hopefully at some point in the future. As more countries adopt similar programs, India will soon follow.