In a move to streamline the immigration process, the Bureau of Immigration (BOI), under India’s Ministry of Home Affairs, has announced that passengers flying internationally from India need not carry a physical boarding pass or have it stamped at immigration counters from September 1.

Instead, they can show an e-boarding pass on their smartphones for immigration clearance.

Though physical boarding passes would still be accepted, immigration officers will no longer stamp them.

The BOI has communicated the directive to airport authorities after finding that the existing stamping requirement was causing inconvenience to passengers.

The decision was made after the BOI examined the immigration process and finding it cumbersome did away with the mandatory requirement of physical boarding passes and the stamping of boarding passes at immigration counters at all international airports in the country.

It is enough for passengers to produce their e-boarding passes alone at the immigration counters for clearance. – Image credit: Wikipedia – editor@nrifocus.com