Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!tomockey.ddo.jp!news.tornevall.net!news.albasani.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!xlned.com!feeder1.xlned.com!tudelft.nl!txtfeed2.tudelft.nl!eweka.nl!lightspeed.eweka.nl!postnews.google.com!q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail From: Sryn Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan Subject: "Priority Lane" for Jpn residents at Narita !? Date: 15 Oct 2007 23:54:40 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Lines: 46 Message-ID: <1192509128.990992.122670@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 61.6.222.159 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: posting.google.com 1192517687 9896 127.0.0.1 (16 Oct 2007 06:54:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 06:54:47 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/419.3 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/419.3,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=61.6.222.159; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:166141 >From the Corrections/Feedback section of http://www.japaninc.com/tt441 -> In TT440, we carried a news item about the Immigration Bureau's plan to fingerprint and eye-scan every foreigner arriving in Japan, including permanent residents, and that furthermore, ALL would have to go to the foreigners line -- drastically increasing the delays. * Our reader says: In response to your recent item regarding new fingerprinting procedures to take place in November, I would note that, while specifics have yet to be finalized, word is that a "priority lane" will be established at NARITA only, using special gate equipment to screen foreign arrivals who have pre-registered their fingerprints and photos. No information has been made available as yet regarding how to go about such pre-registration, but at least one source notes that there are currently no plans (i.e., no money budgeted) for establishing similar facilities in Nagoya, Osaka, Kobe, or any of the other major points of entry. I'm sure there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of Japan-based foreign business people who, like myself, travel in and out of the country at least monthly, if not more frequently, so it really makes no sense at all that this available technology (whatever it is=C3=A2=E2=82=AC=E2=80=9Dthat's not= clear either) was not planned for wider implementation. * We respond: Yes, we've heard about a mythical "Automatic Gate" for re-entrants at Narita. No doubt we'll have to wait for more news -- but it would be great if the Immigration authorities could at least tell us how to pre-register... Not that it matters to me personally, but have you guys heard about this? Sryn sryn@yahoo.DELETETHIS.com