Immigration clearance time to be cut by half at Ahmedabad airport

Ahmedabad: International passengers passing through Ahmedabad airport will be able to get immigration clearance in half the time it currently takes, once the Union home ministry’s Bureau of Immigration takes over the airport’s immigration desk.
Sources said that, by February 22, 2012, the bureau will have taken over the immigration desk at the city’s Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport. After the takeover, the bureau is likely to double the number of police officers posted at the airport for immigration-related work.
The sources further said that currently the number of officers and constables deployed for immigration-related work is around 60, all of whom are from the special branch of Ahmedabad police. But their number is likely to increase to 120 once the bureau takes over, the sources said. “Currently there is one sub-inspector and two inspectors posted at the immigration desk,” a source said, adding that the number of the PI and PSI-rank officers will also double by February-end.
31/01/12 Roxy Gagdekar/DNA/Daily Bhaskar

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Categories: airports Jan 2012