There is talk about certain countries linking up passport control so that a Singaporean visiting Australia for example, could use the automatic lanes currently limited to Australian passport holders.
FWIW those lanes at SYD are now available to us Poms, possibly other nationalities as well, and worked fine last week (both inbound and outbound)..shame really, I never did have a chance to chat about the cricket
Mind you if LHR and the "EU passport" experience is anything to go by once you open up the "automated" lanes to all comers the queues grow to such an extent that it's a toss up between going automated or sticking with the personal process..
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