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of many countries to obtain information about an incoming passenger not provided by the passenger's passport (such as health, criminal record, where they will be staying, purpose of the visit, etc.) and to provide a record of a person's entry into the country. The card may also provide information
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The Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument make provision for requiring passengers disembarking or embarking in the United Kingdom, or any class of such passengers, to produce to an immigration officer, if so required, landing or embarkation cards in such form as the Secretary
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announced that landing cards would be completely scrapped as part of digital border transformation and modernisation. It was expected this change would come into effect by the autumn. Landing cards were abolished for all passengers effective 20 May 2019.
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on health and character requirements for non-citizens entering the country. Some countries require an arrival card for each incoming passenger, while others require one card per family unit, and some only require an arrival card for non-citizens only.
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Notably absent from the landing card was information on the purpose of the trip, destination, or any items brought into the country. Additional information requested from travellers was their occupation and the port of their last departure.
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to the arrival card, which is retained in the alien's passport until their eventual departure. This arrival card can also be combined with a customs declaration, which some countries require incoming passengers to fill out separately.
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respectively. There is minimal cross-border formality between a number of countries, most notably those in the passport-free travel area of Europe's
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of State may direct, and for requiring the owners or agents of ships and aircraft to supply such cards to those passengers.
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Information requested by a Chinese arrival card includes the passenger's information and details about their proposed trip.
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The information requested varies by country. Typically, the type of information requested on the arrival card includes:
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Travellers are generally required to sign, date, and declare the information is true, correct, and complete.
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The procedure of compiling information from immigration cards is no longer required by the authorities of
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desk at the point of entry. The form was usually supplied by the airline, train or ferry company.
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The requirement to produce an arrival card is usually in addition to a requirement to produce a
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Purpose of trip: vacation, education/study, visiting relatives/families, business, diplomatic
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authorities following the introduction of the biometric recording system by the
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Information on items being bought into the country which may be of interest to
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Immigration Law Handbook, 2013, By Margaret Phelan, James Gillespie, page 50
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citizens were formerly required to complete a landing card on entry to the
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Children & Immigration By Jeremy Rosenblatt, Ian Lewis, page 88
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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Form 6059B (arrival card)
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Air route authority between the United States and China
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In the UK, the landing card system was governed by the
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