If you need an ETA to enter the UK, the official website very strongly insists for you to use their phone app. It indeed makes things somewhat easy as it uses the NFC reader to scan the passport and uses the phone's camera to take a mugshot. Now the payment doesn't work. 1/2 - ThreadSky

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swallez.com • 5 days ago

If you need an ETA to enter the UK, the official website very strongly insists for you to use their phone app. It indeed makes things somewhat easy as it uses the NFC reader to scan the passport and uses the phone's camera to take a mugshot. Now the payment doesn't work. 1/2

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swallez.com•5 days ago

I tried 5 times with 3 different cards on my Android phone (I don't have Google Pay), it failed with "cannot confirm the payment". I ended up filling the form on the website, uploaded the mugshot, went through the payment form and… and everything worked flawlessly. 2/2

deleplace.bsky.social•5 days ago

When flaky web forms end up in a transfer of the thing (mugshot) from mobile to computer, I recommend https://coolmaze.io

swallez.com•5 days ago

Sorry, I don't have any contact in the UK administration to recommend your cool stuff 😅

deleplace.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's not for the form provider, it's for you as a user who casually need to throw something at the computer, before you decide to casually throw any hardware out of the window

swallez.com•5 days ago

Ah indeed, sorry. Well, I take a picture, it's synced with Google Photos, I download it on my laptop and done. Not as straightforward, but simple enough for me…

deleplace.bsky.social•5 days ago

Synced accounts work great 👍

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