Originally posted by flyguy
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Even those in transit.
Hence it was unfortunate that they then didn't bother to hand out the form to everyone, only a minute few.
So the rest of the plane and I didn't think much about it, disembarked and saw the mile-long queues in all 6 open counters (especially the resident's queue, which was only manned by one officer who complained about the lack of manpower - he then informed me they only insisted everyone fill in the form since two days ago.
Well, obviously depending on the thermal scanner strategy was in many respects insufficient. Anyway, the pink form + thermal scanner strategy, imo, is only a stopgap at best. If pax see the mile-long queues, they have only one thought: get through it as fast as possible and with minimal effort exerted.
It doesn't help that the security officers barely/did not glance(d) at the pink sheets in the automated passport lanes where Singaporean citizens waltzed through for those with the passports that are machine-readable.
Then again, neither do the security pax in KLIA, so I wonder what result they're hoping to achieve.
Oh - and for the record, some people stay in more than one place/hotel in a visit abroad. And I don't just mean SPG/Hilton/*insert hotel-chain* hoppers here, either. People DO go from city to city domestically, sometimes by car. And I doubt any/most leave forwarding addresses.
I find this not reflected in any of the forms I've been asked to fill out anywhere, doesn't matter which country. Execution-strategy mismatch, in my opinion.
Anyway - for all those coming to SIN, ASK for that pink form in-flight.
And brace yourself for some serious queue-age if going landside. What's normally a 10 to 15-minute trek through immigration turned out to be 45 minutes for me. And I was the first in Y to disembark.
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