The United Kingdom (UK) plans for a “fully digital border” including an American-style electronic travel authorisation that helps to check the travellers to the UK in advance, said Interior Minister Priti Patel. The plans will be announced in parliament on Monday, which would encompass the country’s overall immigration system and introduction of points in the migration system, reports AFP. 

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“Our new fully digital border will provide the ability to count people in and out of the country, giving us control over who comes to the UK”, said Patel in a statement. “Our new approach will make it easier to identify potential threats before they reach the border”, she added, reports AFP.

Patel’s Home Office department said that this would enable the officials “to count who is coming in and out of the country and whether they have permission” to be in the UK. Patel, in March, revealed elements of the “new plan for immigration” and called it “the most significant overhaul of our asylum system in decades”, reports AFP.

Tightening immigration rules and securing borders were key promises of those like Patel and Prime Minister Boris Johnson who argued for leaving the European Union (EU) in Britain’s 2016 Brexit referendum, reports AFP.

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Under the new plans, Patel is set to announce that travellers arriving in the UK without a visa or immigration status would have to apply for a US-style Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). The Home Office expects that around 30 million ETA applications will be processed each year, reports AFP.

“What I’m unveiling and proposing tomorrow is a new legal migration and border strategy…, which is based upon digitalisation of our borders, but also the simplification of our immigration laws,” said Patel, reported AFP, quoting Sky News on Sunday.