7/3 Addendum. When we got here, the immigration procedure was entirely facial recognition and nothing else. At no time were our passports looked at by anyone, not even a computer. It used to be that you’d only get this when registered – and paying – for Global Entry, now having an American passport is enough. It’s what you’d expect, if the biometric data in the passports is worth anything, and if that data is in fact also stored in the border protection computers. I am not concerned about it, I am pleased that it works.

André Spiegel @drmirror