First time with e-passport
Jun 21, 2016 | 11:51 pm
#16
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: San Francisco
Programs: UA 1K/AS Titanium …Bonvoy Titanium..Hertz Presidents Club
Posts: 1,349
Individuals entering the United States are required to have an E-Passport. An e-Passport contains an electronic chip. The chip holds the same information that is printed on the passport's data page: the holder's name, date of birth, and other biographic information. An e-Passport also contains a biometric identifier.
Last edited by minhaoxue; Jun 22, 2016 at 12:09 am
Jun 22, 2016 | 12:42 am
#17
Join Date: Nov 2014
Posts: 602
Enrolment
An eligible resident should proceed to the enrolment e-Channel upon arriving at or departing from Lo Wu Control Point for enrolment to use this service. At the enrolment, he / she will be asked to give consent to the Director of Immigration for retrieval of his / her personal data from the chip of his / her identity card and storage of such data in a database for subsequent automated immigration clearance. Upon confirmation of enrolment, he / she will be able to enter the enrolment e-Channel for fingerprint verification to complete the self-service enrolment and immigration clearance.
An eligible resident should proceed to the enrolment e-Channel upon arriving at or departing from Lo Wu Control Point for enrolment to use this service. At the enrolment, he / she will be asked to give consent to the Director of Immigration for retrieval of his / her personal data from the chip of his / her identity card and storage of such data in a database for subsequent automated immigration clearance. Upon confirmation of enrolment, he / she will be able to enter the enrolment e-Channel for fingerprint verification to complete the self-service enrolment and immigration clearance.
The point I was trying to convey: if you are outside the EU/EEA and see an e-gate channel, do not automatically assume you're eligible to use it just because you hold an EU/EEA e-passport. Good to know Australia and New Zealand allow it though.