Senior Singaporean officials have confirmed that the city state will fingerprint all arrivals at land, air or sea checkpoints from June.Senior Minister of State for Home Affairs Desmond Lee confirmed the strategy this week, saying it would be implemented as part of plans to beef up border security.Fingerprint scans will allow the immigration authorities to “verify the traveller's identity before he is allowed entry into Singapore and will facilitate automated self-clearance during his departure”, said Lee.He pointed out that that more than half a million people pass through Singapore's checkpoints every day, with the Woodlands checkpoint being the busiest land checkpoint in the world.To improve technology while ensuring efficient travel and high levels of security, the Immigration & Checkpoints Authority (ICA) will implement the BioScreen initiative across all checkpoints to capture the fingerprints of all arriving persons by this June. These fingerprint records will allow ICA to verify travellers' identities before he can enter Singapore, and will facilitate automated self-clearance when departing.In September 2014, Singapore, which already uses fingerprint scanning for border entry, said it was considering a “small-scale” test of iris scanners.Contactless iris capturing and authentication had been picked as “a potentially viable technology to complement our existing biometrics systemߪ for use at our checkpoints”, a spokesman for the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) said at the time.

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