mngmn Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Looks like the biometric scanners have been installed at Swampy. The procedure will involve: 1. Scan four fingers right hand 2. Scan four fingers left hand 3. Scan both thumbs The scanners also seem quite small to accommodate the four fingers of large hands. The procedure is far more complicated than Singapore or malarial. Expect long delays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thailand Outcast Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Are you sure about the four fingers? Cambodia and Malaysia require only the two index fingers to be scanned. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post gk10002000 Posted April 18, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 18, 2019 Be prepared to take off shoes for foot print like baby scanning next. Then cue tip or cotton swab of mouth for DNA sample. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 1 minute ago, gk10002000 said: Be prepared to take off shoes for foot print like baby scanning next. Then cue tip or cotton swab of mouth for DNA sample. I hope they don't do intimate cavity searches in the same queue. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gk10002000 Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 Just now, bluesofa said: I hope they don't do intimate cavity searches in the same queue. Retinal eye scans are next. And you will get to stick your eyes into a laser scanner built by a company that was the low bidder on a government contract! Had to use those at one installation I used to go to when I was in the US Air Force. I conveniently and accidentally kept forgetting to get my "account" set up every time I was TDY there so I was able to enter by the normal manual security process. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritManToo Posted April 18, 2019 Share Posted April 18, 2019 27 minutes ago, Thailand Outcast said: Are you sure about the four fingers? Cambodia and Malaysia require only the two index fingers to be scanned. Cambodia PoiPet land border wanted all 10 fingers in January. Cambodia Binh Heip land border didn't bother at all this month. Cambodia Phnom Penh airport didn't bother either. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mngmn Posted April 18, 2019 Author Share Posted April 18, 2019 (edited) 37 minutes ago, Thailand Outcast said: Are you sure about the four fingers? Cambodia and Malaysia require only the two index fingers to be scanned. Absolutely. Read the procedure while waiting for IO to stamp me out. Edited April 18, 2019 by mngmn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cerox Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 Thank you for the valuable information. You said when they stamped you out? So at departure, not arrival? How long did everything take? Departing next week too at that airport.???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Puchaiyank Posted April 19, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 19, 2019 I was thinking the middle finger should suffice...???? 7 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freedomnow Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 presumed guilty on arrival... great tone setting....do foreigners have a higher percentage of criminiality than Thais...? I doubt it. They want more tourists yet they have to get the joy of the last person's fingers scan sludge all on their fingers to be sure to pick up some awful airport bug...sure they will have no sanitiser to keep it hygienic...so it is just going to accumulate all day long with bugs with the sheer volume of human traffic...GREAT. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thailand Outcast Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 7 hours ago, mngmn said: Absolutely. Read the procedure while waiting for IO to stamp me out. Are they still doing the facial recognition as well, or does the fingerprinting do away with that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Thailand Outcast Posted April 19, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 19, 2019 Should be fun if the system is linked to Interpol. ???? 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captainhornblower Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 They also have them at Had Yai airport. Came through there 31 March and it is all fingers and both thumbs - problem was the IO's had issues operating them - they only went in a couple of days before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fruitman Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 The ones in singapore are too small for my fingers. I need them to help me every time. But their staff speaks good english so it's no problem. Never met a good english speaking thai on their airports. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Traubert Posted April 19, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 19, 2019 4 hours ago, freedomnow said: presumed guilty on arrival... great tone setting....do foreigners have a higher percentage of criminiality than Thais...? I doubt it. They want more tourists yet they have to get the joy of the last person's fingers scan sludge all on their fingers to be sure to pick up some awful airport bug...sure they will have no sanitiser to keep it hygienic...so it is just going to accumulate all day long with bugs with the sheer volume of human traffic...GREAT. I wouldn't leave the house if I was you. It's dangerous out there. ???? 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICELANDMAN Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 10 minutes ago, Traubert said: I wouldn't leave the house if I was you. It's dangerous out there. ???? I believed before the road Thailand is dangerous, but now also microbes finger scan airport also ???? milliards microbes take and not said thank you????forbidden to suck your fingers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cat ji Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 5 hours ago, freedomnow said: presumed guilty on arrival... great tone setting....do foreigners have a higher percentage of criminiality than Thais...? I doubt it. They want more tourists yet they have to get the joy of the last person's fingers scan sludge all on their fingers to be sure to pick up some awful airport bug...sure they will have no sanitiser to keep it hygienic...so it is just going to accumulate all day long with bugs with the sheer volume of human traffic...GREAT. It will not be all day long, it is impossible; they will have to wipe it clean every so often. That is why you have hand sanitiser / wetwipes handy when you travel. The same applies to any door handles, public toilets and so on. presumed guilty on arrival... great tone setting....do foreigners have a higher percentage of criminiality than Thais...? I doubt it. Do you really think governments do things like this based on reasoning like that. It is a global trend, the technology has become more pervasive. EU visa requires biometrics, so you have to go to an embassy to apply for a visa...or at least i do - because VFS [outsource visa services] used by most countries don't do it. ...Or, I suppose, the countries don't want it outsourced. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Lacessit Posted April 19, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 19, 2019 5 hours ago, freedomnow said: presumed guilty on arrival... great tone setting....do foreigners have a higher percentage of criminiality than Thais...? I doubt it. They want more tourists yet they have to get the joy of the last person's fingers scan sludge all on their fingers to be sure to pick up some awful airport bug...sure they will have no sanitiser to keep it hygienic...so it is just going to accumulate all day long with bugs with the sheer volume of human traffic...GREAT. I believe there are restrooms at Swampy where one can wash their hands if they are concerned about cleanliness. Aren't you overreacting a little? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CH1961 Posted April 19, 2019 Share Posted April 19, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, fruitman said: Never met a good english speaking thai on their airports. I'm sure their English is better than your Thai ???? Edited April 19, 2019 by CH1961 misspelled 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mngmn Posted April 19, 2019 Author Share Posted April 19, 2019 7 hours ago, cerox said: Thank you for the valuable information. You said when they stamped you out? So at departure, not arrival? How long did everything take? Departing next week too at that airport.???? The scanners were not in use but based on my experience at Malaysia and Singapore is going to cause huge queues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mikeymike100 Posted April 19, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 19, 2019 In Singapore you just need both thumbs when you arrive, plus the immigration card. When you depart you can use the automatic lane, but you don't get a 'stamp out', the departure card can be discarded. In Jakarta, Indonesia, its even better, no immigration card, no scanners, fingerprint or cameras, the guy scans your passport and you just fill in a customs form. In Thailand you get photographed in and out and now if they take all your fingerprints, where is all this 'data' getting stored in a 'secure' location?? Can you imagine a couple of A380's landing together and you get 800 passengers at the same time having to go thru immigration. It was bad before, but this is going to be very interesting, especially when a fault develops. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandyf Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 16 hours ago, Cat ji said: EU visa requires biometrics, so you have to go to an embassy to apply for a visa...or at least i do - because VFS [outsource visa services] used by most countries don't do it. ...Or, I suppose, the countries don't want it outsourced. That is not true, VFS have been doing biometrics for the the UK for a long time. My wife has had 3 Schengen visas and only the German was done at the embassy, Spanish was at the VFS Spanish desk, and Malta at the VFS Austrian desk. Outsourcing has become a way of life for visa applications, even the Chinese have turned to it in the last couple of years, but have yet to introduce biometrics. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Pattaya46 Posted April 20, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2019 On 4/19/2019 at 6:51 AM, BritManToo said: Cambodia Phnom Penh airport didn't bother either. At Phnom Penh I was said that if they already have your fingerprints then they don't ask again at next travels. On 4/19/2019 at 10:31 AM, freedomnow said: presumed guilty on arrival... great tone setting....do foreigners have a higher percentage of criminiality than Thais...? I doubt it. // So every country starts to take fingerprints of travellers (Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia...) and it's ok, but when Thailand also starts to do it, you criticize Thailand...?? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BritManToo Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) 18 hours ago, mikeymike100 said: Can you imagine a couple of A380's landing together and you get 800 passengers at the same time having to go thru immigration. It was bad before, but this is going to be very interesting, especially when a fault develops. At Don Muang Wednesday morning 9:30am, immigration was completely empty, apart from the VOA room which was jam packed. I was really surprised. Edited April 20, 2019 by BritManToo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJAS Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) On 4/19/2019 at 6:39 AM, gk10002000 said: Be prepared to take off shoes for foot print like baby scanning next. No problem, I would have thought. They already make you take your shoes off for the security checks, so just don't put 'em back on until you've passed through Immigration!???? Edited April 20, 2019 by OJAS 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 Is this for all foreign nationals? Visa exemption stamp only? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freedomnow Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) 2 hours ago, Pattaya46 said: At Phnom Penh I was said that if they already have your fingerprints then they don't ask again at next travels. So every country starts to take fingerprints of travellers (Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia...) and it's ok, but when Thailand also starts to do it, you criticize Thailand...?? No, I criticise them all...just more biometric data they can wield against people to track them and no-one usually objects. USA doing 90%+ face biometrics at exit airports soon, and its all open to future abuse. So much of this police state tracking stuff is being brought in on 'it's to get the bad guys' and the lemmings sit back and take it step-by-step. Edited April 20, 2019 by freedomnow 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freedomnow Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 (edited) 20 hours ago, Lacessit said: I believe there are restrooms at Swampy where one can wash their hands if they are concerned about cleanliness. Aren't you overreacting a little? Buuuuuuugs man, they are everywheeeeeere ! Edited April 20, 2019 by freedomnow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Myran Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 On 4/19/2019 at 6:43 AM, bluesofa said: I hope they don't do intimate cavity searches in the same queue. I actually had to pay extra for that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluesofa Posted April 20, 2019 Share Posted April 20, 2019 4 minutes ago, Myran said: On 4/19/2019 at 6:43 AM, bluesofa said: I hope they don't do intimate cavity searches in the same queue. I actually had to pay extra for that. Looks like we've been to the same bar in the past. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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