Passport stamps have been considered a souvenir of sorts for decades but if you have been on a trip overseas recently you might have noticed some countries are no longer inking your passport.
"I look at my old passports and there are a lot of happy memories there. You know, the stamps often remind you of trips that you'd kind of forgotten about."Australia was the first country to remove the physical entry and exit stamp system in December 2012, replacing it with the SmartGate system. " saying goodbye to manual passport controls and welcoming electronic checks speed up queues and improve security," she said.
"Because your battery may go flat, you may lose your mobile phone, you may not have internet access in some of the countries," he said.He said advancements in using "biometrics" to confirm a person's identity could remove the need for a passport altogether."For people who are lost then there will be DNA sampling also.But he admitted there was still a lot of work to do before the entire world moved away from the stamping system.
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