I wonder if we can have both, the checking being done digitally. While still having an actual stamp on the paper passport. I know this sounds absurd but I dislike everything digital with no real, physical record I can keep.
I imagine that the issues for making, deploying and integrating a digital-only passport on a global scale would be much harder.
Can’t tell if the stamper has a plum job or if it’s a punishment.
The problem you'll have is that the stamps may not carry the force of law, so not much help in a pinch.
Hopefully this will be fully automated at check in though. They already have all the info there, don't ask me twice. Send me an email if you won't accept me into your country. It can have its upsides.
ok, do you want that, or are you required to have that..
Uniform servicemen already have made agreements about their data, locations, records, check-ins ad infinitum.. but citizens have not made those agreements.. So uniform services will just make those agreements mandatory.. there is no end to this.
especially irksome is piling on requirements for constant check-in among law abiding people who own property and pay taxes.. while somehow hundreds of thousands can walk around living in parks in the South ? I am not even extreme on this topic .. it just defies common sense and says Slippery Slope in giant letters
People want it because it lets them do what they want with less hassle and it makes many trips possible that are impossible if you have to cross the border at a manned border crossing.
But of course, there is a slippery slope danger.
Don’t really see what a bunch of people wondering around parks all located in the same country has to do with boaters moving between a smorgasbord of islands belonging to two different countries, and thus randomly crossing the boarder back and forth multiple times in a single trip.
When you cross the border on the water, you aren't required to report until you go to land (if you never set foot in Canada, but only sail through territorial waters, there is no requirement to report), at which point you must go to a specified customs dock, and present your paperwork.