Using e-Channels with your New Smart Identity Card

The new smart identity card supports a contactless chip interface, which enables the performance of immigration clearance through e-Channels without the insertion of your identity card. Simply place your new identity card on the top-left corner of an e-Channel's document reader with the photo face-down. When the reading process has finished, you can take back your new smart identity card and enter the e-Channel for fingerprint verification.

3 Simple Steps for
Using e-Channels with your New Smart Identity Card

Step 1: Take out your identity card from the card holder

Step 2: Place it on the top-left corner of the document reader with the photo face-down

Step 3: Enter the e-Channel for fingerprint verification

Meanwhile, the new smart identity card continues to support a contact chip interface. Apart from using the document reader, you may also choose to insert your new identity card into the card reader of the e-Channel for immigration clearance. As the chip is on the back of the new identity card, you have to turn the card with the photo face-down before inserting it into the card reader.