SG Arrival Card to get refreshed interface with 19 language options, passport scan autofill
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All travellers arriving in Singapore, including citizens and permanent residents, must submit the health declaration.
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SINGAPORE – The Singapore Arrival Card (SGAC) will be refreshed with a new look, with 19 languages available and passport scan autofill made available to travellers for faster submission.
The new features will be available on both the MyICA mobile app and the Immigration and Checkpoints Authority’s (ICA) website.
The current SGAC supports 12 language options and the additional languages are: Bahasa Indonesia, Dutch, Arabic, Spanish, Russian, Filipino and Italian.
The autofilling of information by passport scanning is currently available only to foreigners, ICA said.
With the enhancements, the passport scan autofill feature will be made available to Singapore citizens, permanent residents and long-term pass holders, on top of the current Singpass information retrieval.
In response to queries from The Straits Times, ICA said: “The enhancements are part of ICA’s continual efforts to review and improve our services making travel and immigration processes more seamless, convenient and user-friendly for travellers.”
Travellers can try the features on the website from Aug 26, ICA said in a Facebook post on Aug 19.
SGAC is a mandatory health declaration that all travellers must submit before arriving in Singapore, except those who are transiting without seeking immigration clearance, and residents who are travelling through the land checkpoints at Woodlands and Tuas.
The enhanced interface will also sport a more user-friendly design with “smoother, easier navigation”, ICA said in its post.
