India to accept e-boarding cards at immigration from Sept 1

The Bureau of Immigration will implement a change on September 1 that allows travellers to show e-boarding cards at immigration counters, eliminating the requirement for a physical boarding card. The move follows a communication from Senior FRRO (Delhi) Deepak Yadav, who noted that stamping physical boarding passes after immigration clearance caused inconvenience to passengers and sometimes led to errors in reading passes due to improper or incorrect stamping. Physical boarding passes will continue to be accepted even after the new measure takes effect.