According to a Home Ministry proposal, prominent Indians, and business travellers with unblemished record may be offered the facility of minimum paper work in special immigration counters in select airports while travelling to and fro abroad.
"Discussions are still going on with various stakeholders and the proposal may come into reality in next few months," a senior Home Ministry official said.
Those whose names would be part of the list would have to go straight to a designated immigration counter, complete the minimum formalities and leave within a few minutes, the official said.
Interestingly, the move came amidst the India-US initiative to exempt prominent Indian citizens from immigration checks in America.
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Individuals included in the list enter the US through automatic kiosks at select airports. At airports, programme members proceed to Global Entry kiosks, present their machine-readable passport, place their fingerprints on the scanner for fingerprint verification and complete a customs declaration.
The kiosk issues the traveller a transaction receipt and directs the traveller to baggage claim and the exit.