Home Minister Launches Fast-Track Immigration Facility at 5 Airports in Country

New Delhi: The Union Home Minister, Shri Amit Shah, has inaugurated the Fast Track Immigration-Trusted Traveller Program in Lucknow, Thiruvananthapuram, Trichy, Calicut, and Amritsar airports through video conferencing.

The program is aimed at facilitating international mobility with faster, smoother, and secure immigration clearance, and it will provide more facilities for the Indian Nationals and Overseas Citizens of India (OCI) passengers coming from other countries.

The program will run on e-gates, or automated border gates, which will minimize human intervention in the immigration clearance process. 

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The minister stated that the Fast Track Immigration program is a trusted traveler program that will make immigration simpler, faster, and hassle-free. It will also promote both convenience and national security. The program was launched in New Delhi last year, and until now this facility has been started at 13 airports across the country. Three lakh passengers have registered on this portal so far. Further, in the last eleven years, there has been a huge increase in international passenger traffic.

According to ministry information, the number of Indian passengers going abroad was three crore 54 lakhs, which has increased by around 73 percent to six crore 12 lakhs in 2014. The number of foreign passengers who used to come to India was one crore 53 lakhs in 2014, which has now increased to around two crore passengers in 2024.

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