Arrival card

This arrival card can also be combined with a customs declaration, which some countries require incoming passengers to fill out separately.

The procedure of compiling information from physical immigration cards is no longer required by the authorities of Singapore (which switched to electronic cards)[6] and the United States following the introduction of the biometric recording system by the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority and the United States Customs and Border Protection respectively.

[10] In the UK, the landing card system was governed by the Immigration Act 1971, schedule 2 paragraph 5, which states;[11] 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 of State may direct, and for requiring the owners or agents of ships and aircraft to supply such cards to those passengers.

[12][13][14] In August 2017, the Home Office announced that landing cards would be completely scrapped as part of digital border transformation and modernisation.

[16] Notably absent from the landing card was information on the purpose of the trip, destination, or any items brought into the country.